{"id":60453,"date":"2015-06-19T09:59:02","date_gmt":"2015-06-19T13:59:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=60453"},"modified":"2015-06-19T09:59:02","modified_gmt":"2015-06-19T13:59:02","slug":"obama-we-dont-have-all-of-the-facts-but","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=60453","title":{"rendered":"Obama: “We don’t have all of the facts, but….”"},"content":{"rendered":"

Wednesday night, Dylann Roof spent an hour among church goers in Charleston and then pulled out the gun that his father gave him for his birthday recently, and murdered nine people. So, yesterday, the President blamed the instrument that he used to commit that horrendous crime and he blamed legal gun owners. From the National Journal<\/a>;<\/p>\n

“I’ve had to make statements like this too many times,” Obama said. “We don’t have all of the facts, but we do know that once again innocent people were killed in part because someone who wanted to inflict harm had no trouble getting their hands on a gun.”<\/p>\n

The president continued, suggesting that the country has to act to prevent gun violence. “Now is the time for mourning and for healing, but let’s be clear at some point, we as a country, we have to reckon with the fact that this mass violence does not happen in other advanced countries,” Obama said. “It doesn’t happen in other places with this kind of frequency. It is in our power to do something about it.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Really? We have the power to keep criminals from getting gifts from their fathers – that’s already unlawful. The implication in the president’s speech is that somehow tougher background checks would have prevented this terrible crime. Tougher background checks wouldn’t have prevented Adam Lanza from killing his mother to steal her guns – it did however, stop Lanza from buying a gun himself, but criminals commit crimes. <\/p>\n

It is already illegal for family members to arm each other when they can’t legally own guns otherwise. The father bears some responsibility in this crime if it turns out that he gave a gun to his drug-addled son. According to the media<\/a>, Roof had been arrested for drug possession in recent months.<\/p>\n

Asked [by police] if he had any contraband, Mr. Roof said no, according to the report, but the officer searched him and found Suboxone, a prescription drug used to treat opiate addiction and frequently sold in illegal street transactions. Mr. Roof admitted that he did not have a prescription for the drug, the report said, and he was arrested and charged with felony drug possession. The case is pending.<\/p>\n

In April, Mr. Roof was charged with trespassing at the same mall. The police report said he had been barred from the mall for a year after the drug arrest. Mr. Roof was convicted on that charge, a misdemeanor.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Some reports are<\/a> that his parents gave him money to buy a gun, if that turns out to be true, that might indicate that the background checks didn’t work;<\/p>\n

A friend of the suspect accused of shooting and killing nine people inside a black church in Charleston said he told him a few weeks ago he had “a plan.”<\/p>\n

Joseph Meek Jr. said he was drinking vodka with 21-year-old Dylann Roof when Roof made the remark while he was railing against blacks.<\/p>\n

Roof didn’t elaborate on the plan, but Meek said he was worried. He said he knew his friend had a “Glock” \u2014 a .45 caliber pistol \u2014 in the trunk of his car.<\/p>\n

Meek said Roof told him he bought the gun with money he got from his parents for his birthday.<\/p>\n

With the way Roof was carrying on, Meek said he took the gun from the trunk of Roof’s car and hid it in his house, just in case.<\/p>\n

“I didn’t think he would do anything,” he said.<\/p>\n

But the next day, when Roof was sober, he gave it back.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

If current background checks didn’t work in this case, that doesn’t mean that legal gun owners need to pay a price for the government’s own failings in this regard. But, isn’t that always the way?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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