Obama not backing down from assault weapons ban

[tombogan03884]

Not one more inch . If you are not prepared to go all the way in defense of your rights you are either an idiot, or a coward .

http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/ticket/white-house-obama-not-backing-down-assault-weapons-190730430.html

The White House says President Barack Obama is still committed to persuading Congress to ban some semi-automatic weapons, despite comments from the vice president that suggested he and Obama would instead embrace more politically popular gun reforms.

"The president has been clear that Congress should reinstate the assault weapons ban and that avoiding this issue just because it's been politically difficult in the past is not an option," Matt Lehrich, a spokesman for Obama, told Yahoo News.

Vice President Joe Biden told reporters on Thursday that he will issue a plan to the president next week to address the nation's gun violence problem. Though both Biden and Obama have voiced their support for an assault weapons ban, Biden didn't mention it on Thursday, instead focusing on proposals to close a loophole that allows gun buyers to forgo background checks and a bill to limit the size of ammunition magazines to 10 bullets. Biden also noted that many senators are opposed to a ban but are more receptive to magazine limits, according to the New York Times.

Any assault weapons ban would most likely face a tough road in Congress. President Bill Cinton, who pushed an assault weapons ban through a majority Democratic Congress in 1994, said later that the ban fueled a Republican comeback, with the party winning back the House and Senate for the first time in 40 years in the next election cycle.

Attitudes about assault weapons and gun control have also changed since the '90s: Polling shows that background checks and magazine limits enjoy majority support among the public, while an assault weapons ban does not.

Any one who advocates "reason" and "calm" at this point does not deserve any rights .
NOT ONE STEP BACK !

[twyacht]

Molon Labe.

THIS is the straw that will break the camel's back. If they start it, they will wish they hadn't.

[alfsauve]

I want to go back.  

For starters I want to go back to 1967, when you could buy a gun at a hardware store.  Back before form 4473 was invinted. When the ATF was just a tax collection agency, when you didn't have to pay a local FFL to buy a gun from  a buddy in another state.  When anything that could be manufactured in the states could also be imported.  

That's just for starters.  Then I want to go even further back to 1933, but that's another time.

[MikeBjerum]

Look at the facts from the FBI, and you will note that 1968's laws that removed mail order guns, and the early 80's (can't remember the exact year) when they raised the price of FFL so high that local hardware stores, gas stations, and stores like Penny's, Wards, Sears, Target, etc. dropped their guns had nothing to do with changing guns used in violence.

We have fewer homes with firearms today than 50 years ago, fewer people with firearms than 50 years ago (according to national estimates), and we are not changing anything!

Guns are not the problem!  Violence is the problem!

Do you know that every vehicle involved with an alcohol involved vehicle incident resulting in death of innocent bystanders had tires on it    Those ugly black spheres that make cars more dangerous need to be banned!

[PegLeg45]

Another thing that gets me, is the anti's chosen 'poster gun' for all the hoopla.....the AR-15.
The anti's act like this is some new evil thing in the last 20 years, that has suddenly cropped up and is the cause of all these killings...... all the while not knowing (or caring) that the thing is over 50 years old.

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[tombogan03884]

I posted this in the wrong thread earlier 

The clip from "300" is more apt than first appears .
As for Leonidas and the Spartans, it is more important to fight for what you believe than it is to win, or even to survive.
We all die, the only question is will we go with honor, or as a groveling subservient POS.

[Magoo541]

I posted this in the wrong thread earlier 

The clip from "300" is more apt than first appears .
As for Leonidas and the Spartans, it is more important to fight for what you believe than it is to win, or even to survive.
We all die, the only question is will we go with honor, or as a groveling subservient POS, OR what kind of example we set for those that follow.

FIFY

[Solus]

 Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty or give me death!"

Patrick Henry