Obama pushes for gun control after Planned Parenthood shooting[W:36:117]

Anomalism said:

Thoughts?

Obama pushes for gun control after Planned Parenthood shooting in Colorado Springs - CBS News

After a gunman opened fire at a Colorado Springs Planned Parenthood on Friday, killing three people and injuring several others, President Obama urged the nation to increase controls over "the easy accessibility of weapons of war." "This is not normal," the president said in a statement Saturday. "We can't let it become normal." "If we truly care about this -- if we're going to offer up our thoughts and prayers again, for God knows how many times, with a truly clean conscience -- then we have to do something about the easy accessibility of weapons of war on our streets to people who have no business wielding them," Mr. Obama added. "Enough is enough."

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Anomalism said:

Thoughts?

Obama pushes for gun control after Planned Parenthood shooting in Colorado Springs - CBS News

After a gunman opened fire at a Colorado Springs Planned Parenthood on Friday, killing three people and injuring several others, President Obama urged the nation to increase controls over "the easy accessibility of weapons of war." "This is not normal," the president said in a statement Saturday. "We can't let it become normal." "If we truly care about this -- if we're going to offer up our thoughts and prayers again, for God knows how many times, with a truly clean conscience -- then we have to do something about the easy accessibility of weapons of war on our streets to people who have no business wielding them," Mr. Obama added. "Enough is enough."

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VanceMack said:

9 year old executed in Chicago 3 days ago.
20 year old gunned down because she had the bad fortune of walking while black,in a black neighborhood, next to a black guy, that happened to be a gang banger (he just got shot in the balls).
16 black people gunned down in a public park in New Orleans.

No calls for gun control.
No cries for black lives 'mattering'.

Nothing.

Should tell you everything you know about Obama, anti-gun people, and for that matter, black lives hactivists.

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About 14 million Whites and 2.6 million African Americans report using an illicit drug
5 times as many Whites are using drugs as African Americans, yet African Americans are sent to prison for drug offenses at 10 times the rate of Whites
African Americans represent 12% of the total population of drug users, but 38% of those arrested for drug offenses, and 59% of those in state prison for a drug offense.
African Americans serve virtually as much time in prison for a drug offense (58.7 months) as whites do for a violent offense (61.7 months). (Sentencing Project)

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African Americans now constitute nearly 1 million of the total 2.3 million incarcerated population
African Americans are incarcerated at nearly six times the rate of whites
Together, African American and Hispanics comprised 58% of all prisoners in 2008, even though African Americans and Hispanics make up approximately one quarter of the US population
According to Unlocking America, if African American and Hispanics were incarcerated at the same rates of whites, today's prison and jail populations would decline by approximately 50%
One in six black men had been incarcerated as of 2001. If current trends continue, one in three black males born today can expect to spend time in prison during his lifetime
1 in 100 African American women are in prison
Nationwide, African-Americans represent 26% of juvenile arrests, 44% of youth who are detained, 46% of the youth who are judicially waived to criminal court, and 58% of the youth admitted to state prisons (Center on Juvenile and Criminal Justice).

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Inner city crime prompted by social and economic isolation
Crime/drug arrest rates: African Americans represent 12% of monthly drug users, but comprise 32% of persons arrested for drug possession
"Get tough on crime" and "war on drugs" policies
Mandatory minimum sentencing, especially disparities in sentencing for crack and powder cocaine possession
In 2002, blacks constituted more than 80% of the people sentenced under the federal crack cocaine laws and served substantially more time in prison for drug offenses than did whites, despite that fact that more than 2/3 of crack cocaine users in the U.S. are white or Hispanic
"Three Strikes"/habitual offender policies
Zero Tolerance policies as a result of perceived problems of school violence; adverse affect on black children.
35% of black children grades 7-12 have been suspended or expelled at some point in their school careers compared to 20% of Hispanics and 15% of whites

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Anomalism said:

Thoughts?

Obama pushes for gun control after Planned Parenthood shooting in Colorado Springs - CBS News

After a gunman opened fire at a Colorado Springs Planned Parenthood on Friday, killing three people and injuring several others, President Obama urged the nation to increase controls over "the easy accessibility of weapons of war." "This is not normal," the president said in a statement Saturday. "We can't let it become normal." "If we truly care about this -- if we're going to offer up our thoughts and prayers again, for God knows how many times, with a truly clean conscience -- then we have to do something about the easy accessibility of weapons of war on our streets to people who have no business wielding them," Mr. Obama added. "Enough is enough."

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Anomalism said:

Thoughts?

Obama pushes for gun control after Planned Parenthood shooting in Colorado Springs - CBS News

After a gunman opened fire at a Colorado Springs Planned Parenthood on Friday, killing three people and injuring several others, President Obama urged the nation to increase controls over "the easy accessibility of weapons of war." "This is not normal," the president said in a statement Saturday. "We can't let it become normal." "If we truly care about this -- if we're going to offer up our thoughts and prayers again, for God knows how many times, with a truly clean conscience -- then we have to do something about the easy accessibility of weapons of war on our streets to people who have no business wielding them," Mr. Obama added. "Enough is enough."

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joG said:

Obama is a bore. He should do his job and leave the people alone.

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ttwtt78640 said:

What law would have identiified this shooter as a person who has no business easily accessing or wielding a gun? I am getting extremely tired of "calls to action" that specify no action at all. I still await the actual wording of the "black lives matter" law.

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Anomalism said:

Thoughts?

Obama pushes for gun control after Planned Parenthood shooting in Colorado Springs - CBS News

After a gunman opened fire at a Colorado Springs Planned Parenthood on Friday, killing three people and injuring several others, President Obama urged the nation to increase controls over "the easy accessibility of weapons of war." "This is not normal," the president said in a statement Saturday. "We can't let it become normal." "If we truly care about this -- if we're going to offer up our thoughts and prayers again, for God knows how many times, with a truly clean conscience -- then we have to do something about the easy accessibility of weapons of war on our streets to people who have no business wielding them," Mr. Obama added. "Enough is enough."

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Chainsaw said:

The Fathers knew the citizens would need the guaranteed right to bear to control tyrannical a-holes like BHO.

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Glen Contrarian said:

Yeah, since when should the job of the president include the general welfare of the population - including things like, you know, ensuring that our citizens have the best opportunity to actually grow old and play with their grandchildren?

Please pardon the sounds of the families and children screaming in anguish for their losses - that's just the sound of Second Amendment FREEEEEEEEEEEEEDOM!

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Anomalism said:

Thoughts?

Obama pushes for gun control after Planned Parenthood shooting in Colorado Springs - CBS News

After a gunman opened fire at a Colorado Springs Planned Parenthood on Friday, killing three people and injuring several others, President Obama urged the nation to increase controls over "the easy accessibility of weapons of war." "This is not normal," the president said in a statement Saturday. "We can't let it become normal." "If we truly care about this -- if we're going to offer up our thoughts and prayers again, for God knows how many times, with a truly clean conscience -- then we have to do something about the easy accessibility of weapons of war on our streets to people who have no business wielding them," Mr. Obama added. "Enough is enough."

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Glen Contrarian said:

Yeah, gun control laws never worked worth a tinker's damn anyway, right? That's why America's violent crime and homicide rates are SO much lower than that of any of the other first-world nations, right?

Oh, wait....

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Glen Contrarian said:

"Tyrannical"?

Could you please point out any other time in American history where ALL the American people had more rights than they do today? And when you try to answer that, remember that the metric is for ALL the American people, and not just white heterosexual male protestants.

And if you can't think of any such time, what, then, does that do to your claim that Obama is a tyrant?

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Glen Contrarian said:

Yeah, gun control laws never worked worth a tinker's damn anyway, right? That's why America's violent crime and homicide rates are SO much lower than that of any of the other first-world nations, right?

Oh, wait....

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Ray410 said:

Import America hating Muslims and criminal illegals and disarm the citizens so they will be easy prey?

Anyone who does not now see what we have as a president is either agenda driven at all costs or a complete air headed fool.

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SMTA said:

Stop that garbage - it has nothing to do with this thread.

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Ray410 said:

Your post is absolute fringe Left nonsense, it is exactly what Obama's motives are about.

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joG said:

If he wants gun control he should change the 2nd Amendment. Otherwise he is a tedious bore shirking responsibility. Letting off hot air or trying to outsmart the Constitution is not his job.

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