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US President Barack Obama has talked about what he called the lack of sufficient “common-sense gun safety laws” in the US. In an exclusive interview with the BBC’s North America editor Jon Sopel, Mr Obama said a failure to tackle gun control had been the greatest frustration of his presidency.
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You have fucked that up your a lier
To stop school shootings there needs to be a new federal law that requires K-12 teachers and college and university professors to carry a concealed firearm to protect themselves, their colleagues, and their students, by using deadly force against any malicious maniac, and with some kind of qualified immunity (tailored for these educators on campus). They're not police or law enforcement, but their judgment would not be brought into question. This would stop school shootings overnight.
In the neighborhoods I've lived in here in the US I never saw the need to get a gun. Never. I lived in suburban committees where the only guns I saw were carried by the police. Then I lived in neighborhoods where it seemed everyone hunted and guns had been handed down for generations. I see hunters parked on the side of I-80 going in the woods, camouflaged and armed with rifles. I've visited open carry states/communities and I never felt unsafe in any of these environments. However when it comes to government officials pushing to take the peoples guns, I have much mistrust and do feel unsafe for fear that the government is weaponizing our military and law enforcement. The mistrust isn't just their 'push' on these issues it stems from how they handled themselves during COVID, they earned my mistrust. They made rules, then ran to other states to break the ones they made back home. We had governors telling us we can't have more than 6 people at our house for Thanksgiving only to find out they had more than 20. Then they told us do be old fuddy duddies. Did they get arrested and fined? Of course not. They broke their own rule, and should have been jailed no less than 10 years. Once my kids are out of the house I may decide to purchase a few fire arms. For me where I live, I prefer to not have them while the kids are home, but that is my personal choice. If I lived in an unsecured border-town, I'd have an arsenal in the event I have to protect my kids from invaders. That's the reality.
Shall not be infringed
You being a pReSiDeNt was a huge issue as well.
Fast forward to 2023 and the government's of the world are encroaching on freedoms quicker than before, I wonder what the world would look like if every country had the 2nd amendment?
WEF Davos currently has 5000 armed guards what's good for the goose surly has to be good for the gander
Iphone 11 obama
Please listen the simple gun issue is the ammo the bullets, because it's the bullets that actually cause harm and death.
So simple solution is to regulat all ammo very strictly.
Listen everything today has a "barcode" right but bullets don't, a little preposterous don't you all think limit the sales you must earn points and safe standard rise up a fair scale .
Come on guys you don't need 10,000 rounds to defend the family 5 or 6 after that call the police. So 6 per household reasonable ok .
For hunters get 8 a day after all you can only eat so much and if you can't shoot straight off to the gun range for you , and please return the bullet casing to prove they where properly use thank you very much . Ministry of Ammo i like the MOA
Pest control should be train officers and paid as much as they will be shooting many rounds hopefully nothing like regular peace officers. In fact scale them as well most new officers just get trzers and spray
End some of the police violence.
Truly protect the public it's thier job right to help. See someone in any need , homelessness is rampant and needs to be solved.
Where are the so called smart people in the country. Stand up
Save the country with logic and reason .
If not history will forever show the Shame of present day leadership, unlike the brave heroes the Founders of the USA.
The Founding Fathers could never imagine the fire rate of modern weapons, the flint lock pistols and muskets of the day where very slow to reload .
But I digress make counterfeit ammo so outrageous in penalties as to deter there use.
Hold the manufacturers liable
This way everyone gets to keep thier weapons making them happy . Just like I like motorcycling. Ok
If you have the need to shoot till you hurt. I suggest a licensed gun range or licensed location.
A sort of bring your gun we supply the ammo deal . easy right and the owners will be very wealth hint Give them the best awards.
ya some health competition some sport .
In my youth I love to play war with paintball guns all protected up . Less leathal and fun , I did not have the energy to shoot a real gun after a day running around . for the lazy arm chair warrior I recommend this video game Hell Let Loose . Stunning graphics as close to war as it gets and nobody really gets shot , but it teaches military cooperation a cohesive force .Has the Department of Justice and Government no control over such a simple solution.
Yours respectful
Philip D Cloutier
Kars , Ontario. Canada.
Feel free to copy and paste this everywhere it needs to be posted to make the people be heard .
The MOA movement.
Six years later…nothing has changed, 19 more children slaughtered.
He compared owning a gun to driving lmfao driving is a privilege not a right
Ban the licensed sober drivers from owning vehicles to stop drunk drunk drivers from driving drunk – How gun control laws work
Common sense gun safety wise? OK let’s start right there. The second amendment gives us the right to bear arms shall not be infringed which our founding fathers had put in place so that guys like you Brock would not be tyrannical and try to take our rights away. You are absolutely going after the wrong people. Go back to the bad guys to break the walls not us law bidding citizens.
You mean the fact you didn't enforce them? Uhhh… uhhhh…. uhhhhhhh. uhhhhhhhh.
Boohoo. Too bad for him freedom won and communism lost
Worst president ever.
My greatest frustration during his presidency was finding a decent-paying job
Europe has't had a big mass shooting since Bosnia. (Ukrain maybe?) You "civilized" folks have a short memory.
Pretty easy to be pro-gun control when you have your own security detail.
If everything's about numbers, then why would you think that your biggest frustration is gun deaths and not big pharma and opioid deaths? Interesting
Some of these arguments, man. The second amendment might be protecting you by allowing you to own a gun, but its also protecting that nut-job over there who's decided he wants to shoot up a school today. Maybe the 2nd amendment should be, i don't know, amended, for a modern world or something. Doesn't mean taking YOUR gun away, because you're a law-abiding, mentally stable citizen and its your right to have one. it just stops the criminals and nut-jobs from getting one.
The kinds of people who shoot up schools and night clubs or wherever else are usually either mentally ill or already criminals/terrorists, and also usually desperate. Enforcing restrictions that are already kind of in place would have restricted most of those criminals from getting one in the first place. It could be that the occasional person slips through the cracks, sure.That happens in countries with heavy gun restrictions too. But the occasional nut-job is better than the monthly/weekly/daily occurrence. Laws haven't stopped crime altogether, and they probably never will. But they have reduced the risk. And that's the point.
Those claiming that access to guns shouldn't be restricted because shooters only target places where they know people aren't carrying guns are missing the point that we shouldn't HAVE to need a gun for protection whenever we go outside. I shouldn't need to wear a gun to a nightclub or a school or a supermarket just in case someone who shouldn't have access to a gun decides to shoot up the place. I'd rather you take the nut-job shooter's access to guns away, thanks.
To the argument that OTHER crime still occurs so why even bother trying to restrict people accessing guns in particular? Good point. Maybe we just shouldn't have any laws because people are going to commit crime anyway so why bother? People still crash their cars all the time so we should just forget about seat belts, airbags, and licenses because CLEARLY they aren't even helping. (sorry, I am being facetious. Laws are a good thing.) Point is, it shouldn't fall on me, or any innocent civilian, to protect myself and others by shooting a shooter. Criminals shoot people, yes. And there are probably Other enforceable ways of stopping them as well, sure. But a handy one would be having restrictions in place to stop that person from buying a gun, rather than just expecting civilians to protect themselves by also having one.
I get having a gun in the home, I get owning one for sport or hunting, I get its your passion or whatever. I just don't understand the need to carry one around randomly in public if your job doesn't require you to have one. More guns isn't the answer. I know you want it to be. And I know its a
constitutional right to bear one. But carrying one shouldn't be the only thing protecting innocent people from other guns. Whether its your "culture" or not.
2A all day… F*** Obama
Because we have guns, we stopped you.
…and the other many failures during Obama’s term in office. Why? Because the U.S. will NEVER be a socialist country. And his socialist ideas will never come to reality. We are Americans and no federal government will have control over our freedoms. Thank God for the constitution!!
Having a gun for protection is absolutely ok. There are people that get raped, hurt or killed by others. People having guns to stop people from committing violent crimes against them is ok. No one on this planet has a right to murder or cause great bodily harm to you.
Fuck off dumbo.
Poor democrat, he's sad cuz he could not confiscate guns from good people.
Thank GOD he was stymied. "Common sense gun control" equals confiscation. Confiscation has always been the goal of the Leftists who control the Democratic Party and much of the Republican Party. The Marxists in this country want violent revolution – it's the only way they can implement the policies they desire but have, until this point, largely disguised with deceptive rhetoric. They will get a mountain of skulls if they try to force their policies on Americans, but this time it will be THEIR skulls.
You mean the lack of not getting two airplane full of money to your private airport.. money scam is way more importing that gun crap.
Democrats: Let’s remove god-given rights!
No one:
Democrats: have you assumed my gender?
America’s Gun Economy, By the Numbers it’s all about
the MONEY
By Josh
Sanburn @joshsanburnDec.
18, 2012
http://business.time.com/2012/12/18/americas-gun-economy-by-the-numbers/
The shooting
in Newtown, Conn., that killed six adults and 20 children on Friday has once
again refocused the nation’s attention on guns and gun control. Below are numbers
to give some sense of the size and scope of the gun industry in America, the
federal government’s involvement in regulating that industry, and the political
and economic factors that are likely to drive the debate in the weeks and
months ahead.
The Gun
Economy
47% Percentage
of Americans who say they have a gun in their home or elsewhere on their
property, according to Gallup, the highest reported number in two decades
$6
billion Estimated
revenue generated by the gun and ammunition industry in the U.S., according to
an analysis by business research firm Hoovers
310
million Estimated
number of firearms in the U.S., according to the federal
government, which includes 114 million handguns, 110 million rifles, and 86
million shotguns
209,750 Number of jobs related to the firearm industry in
2012, according to the
National Shooting Sports Foundation, which estimates that $9.8 billion in
annual wages are earned annually
30% Percentage increase in
employment in the industry between 2008 and 2011, according to the National Shooting Sports
Foundation
131,806 Number of federally
licensed firearms and ammunition dealers in the U.S., about four times as many
the number of grocery stores, according to the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives
5,459,240 Number of new firearms
manufactured in the U.S. in 2011, 95% of which are sold domestically, according
to the ATF
3,252,404 Number of firearms
imported into the U.S. (529,056 shotguns, 998,072 rifles, and 1,725,276
handguns) in 2010, according to the ATF
846,619 Number of firearms
imported into the U.S. in 2011 from Brazil, the leading gun importer to the
U.S., according to the ATF
$29,818,880 Market value lost by
gun manufacturer Smith & Wesson after its stock price decreased by 5.2% on
Monday, December 17, amid what the Los Angeles
Times called “a surge in discussion about gun control” after
the school shooting in Newtown, Conn.
$1,197
to $1,391
Suggested retail price for the Bushmaster .223 caliber M4 carbine, the rifle
used by Adam Lanza in the Newtown school shooting, according to Reuters
Background
Checks
16,808,538
Number of background checks on firearm purchasers conducted by the FBI this year through November, an all-time record
78,211 Number of firearm
purchase denials by the FBI in 2011, about 0.48% of all attempted purchases
899,099 Number of firearm
purchases that have been denied by the FBI between November 30, 1998 (when the FBI began
processing background checks) and December 31, 2011. Of those, 7,879 were
denied because of issues relating to the would-be purchaser’s mental health
62% Percentage of private
gun sellers who agreed to sell a firearm to a buyer who couldn’t pass a
background check, according to an undercover investigation by New York City public officials
154,873 Number of
point-of-sale background checks conducted by the FBI on Black Friday this year, the most ever and a 20%
increase from Black Friday 2011
2,006,919 Number of background
checks performed in November, according to the FBI, an all-time record
Politics
$5.1 billion
Estimated federal and state taxes (business and excise) generated by the
industry in 2012, according to the National Shooting Sports Foundation
$136
million
Revenue for firearm manufacturer Smith & Wesson in the second quarter, which increased
by 48%
(from $92 million) from the previous quarter; profits at Smith & Wesson
have risen by 140% since President Barack Obama’s election in
2008, according to Forbes, a trend that’s been widely interpreted as
anticipation of possible gun control legislation from the White House.
17-to-1 Ratio of gun-rights
lobbyist spending to gun control lobbyist spending in 2011, according to opensecrets.org and
an analysis by Republic Report. Gun rights groups spent
$4,212,996; gun control groups spent $240,000.
$14
million
Amount of money the National Rifle Association spent during the 2012 election
in an attempt to defeat President Obama, according to The New York Times
47,856
Number of people who have been killed in the U.S. by firearms between 2006 and
2010, according to the FBI
I get his frustration. I remember when Columbine happened. It was a national tragedy. Now when a school shooting happens here…which is probably once a month…everyone just goes, "Too bad! So Sad!" Republicans only care about you while you're in the womb. Once you're out, you're on your own.
An American President talking to the British media about regretting not implementing gun control. Ironic.
Eliminate drugs and you will have no gun problem Obama.
You say 10s of thousands killed by gun violance since 9/11. I say thar number is 0. They were killed by PEOPLE who do not follow the law and never will. You say less then 100 killed by terrorists. I say all our military heroes killed in those far off lands were killed by terrorists.
I'm glad he didn't succeed. Defend the 2nd.
Obama pathetic liar. Lucky you are that there is two law system in America,, if not you and Clinton would be in jail..
If you have a well armed government with total control over the people and a disarmed public THEN you have a problem. It's called a Fascist Police State.
america is too old fashioned to live in the present. They say it's impossible to control firearms, i think not. Create laws that restrict the market, then crack down on ownership making the process much clearer and more about safety for you and everyone around you, then add yearly renewals. Someone with a gun is a liability. Good guy, bad guy bullshit, you have a gun you may be a potential criminal for all i know. If you think that's paranoid then why do you NEED a gun? It's idiotic to ban weapons, but controlling the market so one cant get their hands on hi-cap magazines, and other attachments that can make the weapon more dangerous.
The American people rejected his racist agenda, and we SHOULD HAVE. Why any nation would embrace laws that are designed ONLY to enable genocide is the real question.
Suck bull shit.
9/11 was a government job
i love and miss you obama 🙁
Im so glad this jackass isnt in office anymore. Your communist agenda failed hahaha, and always will fail. People can see through the smoke screen of lies and deceit.
He states that gun violence is responsible for tens of thousands of deaths. The vast majority of those are in DC, Detroit, Chicago, Baltimore and NYC. All heavily restricted areas. Most of the mass shooting are in “gun free zones” that further restrict carrying and make occupants a target for psychopaths. Here’s the deal. We don’t care that you think we’re wrong. All the evidence spells it out for you. Until people stop being violent toward one another, being armed is well within our rights. Even if the second amendment was repealed in the future, are you really going to confiscate all the weapons from citizens? There are more firearms per capita than people here. It will never happen. Stop disarming innocent people and making them targets.
lies… everything you said was lie i dont believe you anymore… i am out