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Obama Backs Away From Assault Gun Ban in Push to Stop Flow to Mexico

You keep on doubting. His track record on gun rights is out there for all to see.

In 2006, he voted with an 84 to 16 majority (and against Clinton) to prohibit confiscation of firearms during an emergency, but that is his only pro-gun vote in Springfield or Washington. The National Rifle Association grades his voting record (and Clinton's) an "F."

Robert D. Novak - Obama's Second-Amendment Dance - washingtonpost.com

'Nobody Knows Obama's Record on Guns Better Than I Do,' Says Illinois State Rifle... | Reuters

Barack Obama on Gun Control
I never said he was a gun rights advocate. I said I doubt his citation of that figure was a bold plot to snatch guns from Americans. He said it one time in one speech. That doesn't really rise to the standard of evidence.

Irrelevant are the number of times they made the comment. The comment itself is a lie.
It's absolutely relevant when you are making a case that he is using the statement as a tool to build support for a gun grab. The comment is inaccurate, and if he in fact used it in a deliberately misleading way, then it was a lie. If he used it out of context, such as his proclamation of the 57 states, he was mistaken. I think it falls somewhere in between the two. Not quite a nefarious plot, not quite an innocent misstatement. Your "spin" reference might in fact be a good word to describe what happened.

Nice. A mischaracterization turned into abuse and has now made it's way to taking advantage of the situation.
What do you think a mischaracterization is? An accident? Would it not be abuse if it was spun? Would not spinning this statistic in order to use it to your advantage be taking advantage of the situation?

You are building your case on some belief that those terms are mutually exclusive. You have been shown the error of your ways yet once more.

No, the onus is not on me. Me calling into question a lack of raids does not mean I'm insinuating that treacery is afoot. It's a legitimate question.
Of course it is. When you call Obama a liar you need to prove it. He made a statement out of context, for reasons that we all have our own opinions about. However your claim that a lack of information on U.S. gun dealer raids somehow proves the statement if false is where this all started. And you claim is hollow, illogical, and plain dumb. The ATF made the statement Obama referenced, that statement has been posted here and backed up with research into the cases that helped contribute to the findings. So you now have been provided with the basis for the actual ATF statement and the operations contributing to the findings in that statement have been referenced. It's very safe to say that the ATF was not lying when they said guns originating from U.S. arms dealers have made their way to Mexico. And it's safe to say your failed argument about a lack of U.S. gun dealer raids equating to an Obama or ATF lie is now officially dead.


I laugh in your face at your assertion here. The only move lacking smarts is the above quote from you.
You shouldn't be laughing at anything. You should be embarrassed, and more importantly, you should be reading a book or doing some research. If you were to actually do that, you might not humiliate yourself so frequently.

The point here, is you don't have one. You've tried repeatedly to spin the fact that Obama blatantly lied about the numbers.
And now you are trying to divert. I can understand why. You made a stupid argument in order to criticize Obama. When that failed you reverted to the "90%" argument. Fine. That doesn't change the fact that you stepped on your dick once again and got called on it.

You then morph it from a mischaracterization, to an abuse, to deliberately taking advantage of a situation.
See, here you go again. Duck, dodge, duck....

You then "band camp" with anecdotal drivel, make ridiculous assertions and copy/paste the facts in regard to the 90% from my link.
Which logically supported my debunking of your sputtering argument.
When I say you're the Barney Frank of DP, it means just that, long winded, filled with spin, and containing nothing of substance.
And we all know how the rest of the forum feels about you now don't we.

In the end you have no choice to back off of your original claim and settle on "Obama lied about the 90%." Which is fine, you have fun with that. Maybe he did deliberately lie about it, maybe he misstated. Who knows? Wait...you know don't you? Just like you knew the facts when you said this...
GottaHurt said:
I then pointed out the real rhetoric, which is the Obama administration claiming that these guns can be traced back to the United States.

Yet, we've seen no proof of it.
You might wish to retract that. :rofl

The point here is that Obama has now backed off the AWB. And that is a good thing.
 
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Instead of Obama renewing a unconstitutional ban I see Obama trying to find another back door to use for stripping away 2nd amendment rights such as back ground checks,closing "gun show loop hole", gun limits, waiting periods, permits, registrations and any other unconstitutional thing. The majority of states do not require people to do these things,if you don't believe then look up the brady website.
First of all, thanks for your opinion. You get back to us when this actually happens. Secondly, I am well aware of the issues surrounding gun permit requirements, waiting periods, and registrations. Thank you but I don't need the link.
The most logical solution as GottaHurt suggested is to prevent US arms from making into Mexico is to adequately secure the border and require everyone to go through check points on the border. Instead of using the most logical solution Obama and all the other clowns in office who pretend to give a **** about what happens in Mexico will use this as an opportunity to chip away our second amendment rights through incrementation. I could care less about Mexico's crime problem. Crime in another country is not excuse to effect our rights in the US.

I'm a strong proponent of a secure U.S. border with Mexico and controlled immigration.
 
I'll not argue this point, you believe it to be a deliberate lie, I'm not ready to make that leap.

You can't argue the point, because the lie is blatant. You can only attempt to spin it.

Bull****. Your asserting that since you've not heard of raids being conducted on U.S. gun dealers that Obama is lying. You're being dishonest again.

No, you're flat out wrong. I've shown time and time again that Obama's blatant lie was about the 90% number he stated, 3 weeks after Clinton got hammered on it.

The only dishonesty here, is your obvious attempt to make false accusations. You have priors.

No, but you did say that if in fact guns could be traced back to U.S. gun dealers there would have been ATF raids on the dealers.

No, you said that.

I posted this:

They keep talking about tracing all these weapons back to the United States, yet they give no specifics. If they've been traced back here, how come DOJ/ATF/FBI aren't conducting raids to shut down the arms dealers?

See how that is presented, in the form of a question.

In fact, a good portion of your argument is based around this logic. So I ask, if they weren't selling to the cartels or some agent of the cartels, why would you forward the notion that we should be raiding the gun dealers? I'll tell you why, you are dishonest and you further...you really don't understand what you are talking about.

Ahhh, the typical Lerxst "I'm right your wrong because I said so" argument. Yep, the Lerxst ship is sinking fast.

Yeah, I'd avoid actually trying to rebut that if I were you too. But you really have no way to debunk what I've said because it is a scenario that has played out thousands of times at gun shows all over the country. And it is just one example of why your house of cards is so easy to blow down.

Then please give a link to all these scenario's being played out. Otherwise it's just more Lerxst Band Camp Stories.

Yet your reputation here is so well established by members on all sides of the political spectrum. Yeah, the problem here is me alright. You've not substantiated your case with anything other than your staccato posting of opinion and bad logic interspersed with an occasional reference to some actual truth.

Yep, you're clinging to the crows nest now. You keep telling yourself this, as you do in every desperate post of yours, and maybe one of these days you'll believe it.

He backed away from it. That is what is most important here.

No, he lied about the 90%.

You have assumed a very large amount of information and been called on it. And you haven't actually been critical of the ATF or any other agency in this thread. You've not proven anything other than Obama mischaracterized the 90% statistic in his speech. I can and have run circles around you in numerous debates regarding the bringing of facts. Thus far, as I have pointed out, the main foundation of your post that started this was based completely on your ignorant assumptions and lack of knowledge regarding how guns are traced in criminal investigations.

I've assumed nothing, you're the one throwing around the assumptions and false accusations. My position from the beginning has been Obama lying about the 90% and raising the question as to why the DOJ/ATF/FBI haven't conducted raids on gun shops.

Translation: "I still really can't make my case so I'll make a runty little anti-Obama remark." Keep dancing.

No, I was pointing out your feeble attempt to spin the fact that Obama lied.

No, you have not. Not in any way, and I've shown why. What you are doing now is simply denying the obvious. You're logic is flawed and you wiggling like a fish on the floor of the boat. A spot you frequently find yourself in whether it be at my hand or any other number of posters who get on here and expose your inadequacies.

Oh my, someone is all riled up and frothing at the mouth. You've not argued a single point in this post, you instead have resorted to nuh uh's, I'm right your wrong and silly little snipes aimed at me to make yourself feel better.

Stay tuned...the real hammer is about to drop.

Yep, unfortunately for you, right on your head.

You're actually stating that because you personally were presented with all the case files that the ATF is lying.

Drinking again?

That Obama is lying.

Yep, just read the link I provided.

Wait, I forget that when learning to make a fried corn on the cob they don't teach you how to actually do research for yourself, only make assumptions that are tempered by your own political predispositions and and layered with flawed logic. Here let me help you out and in the process shut your bloviating.

Yes, your position on this issue is so stellar that this is the type of response you're trying to solidify your argument on :lamo

Now of course, had you actually read the link you posted, and investigated the links within the article a bit futher, you would have eventually found all this information...information that completely nails the coffin shut on your theory that "because no U.S. gun dealers were raided there is no proof that U.S. guns are going to Mexico." You now have the actual ATF testimony to the Senate supported by links to four major operation which produced hundreds of individual cases linked to thousands of firearms that were traced by the ATF.

That hammer is really kicking your ass here. You're just making up your own arguments now. I've never claimed anything even remotely close to this.

Well what exactly do you think I mean when I say they abused the figure? I was referring to them using it to over emphasize the extent of the issue. Unlike you, I'm not closing myself off to possibilities (regarding the gun grab reference I made), however the degree of probability has yet to be established. Anything is possible.

Again, you make up your own arguments as you go. I've not closed myself off to anything.

Gun grab? You're just running off on wild tangents now. Get a grip on yourself.
Never once have I stated, implied or suggested anything of the sort.

It's absolutely relevant when you are making a case that he is using the statement as a tool to build support for a gun grab.

You're hammered alright, you might switch to screwdrivers. Again, I've never made any such claims to any type of gun grab.

When you call Obama a liar you need to prove it. He made a statement out of context.

I have proven that he lied, and no he didn't make it out of context. You're desperately trying every angle to spin this.

And it's safe to say your failed argument about a lack of U.S. gun dealer raids equating to an Obama or ATF lie is now officially dead.

Yes, your strawman is dead. I've never made any such argument. You did.

And now you are trying to divert. I can understand why. You made a stupid argument in order to criticize Obama. When that failed you reverted to the "90%" argument. Fine. That doesn't change the fact that you stepped on your dick once again and got called on it.

No diversion here. I made no stupid argument. I proved Obama lied about the 90% and posed a question in regard to gun shops.

Your alcohol induced rantings are quite amusing though.

Which logically supported my debunking of your sputtering argument.

Yes your band camp stories are always the ace up your sleeve. :doh Tell us about you and the apple pie in the kitchen again.

And we all know how the rest of the forum feels about you now don't we.

You keep clicking your heels together and telling yourself that...:2wave:

In the end you have no choice to back off of your original claim and settle on "Obama lied about the 90%." Which is fine, you have fun with that. Maybe he did deliberately lie about it, maybe he misstated.

No need to back off on anything. I've proved in this thread, and in others, that the 90% is a lie.

I see that the seeds of doubt have taken root in your head. You know, maybe he did... :lamo
 
Typical GottaHurt brainsludge runoff. We will do this all night long, bottom line is your posts are there for all to see, and your insinuation was obvious. You failed to substantiate your insinuation, you stumbled and bumbled trying to divert and dodge, and it didn't work.

You got caught son. Take your act back to Carl's Jr. Debate isn't your forte.
 
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The obvious here, is your beligerant ranting, and incessant personal attacks.

I made a simple statement, and substantiated my statement with a source that brought to light how the numbers were derived.

I then posed a legitimate question, followed by a statement pointing out the lack of details being provided.

The Obama administration has been short on details when talking about it's policies and programs. To question the policies and programs isn't being anti-Obama, it's an effort to glean pertinent information as to how they are going to impact our country.

In your eagerness to prove me wrong, you made several false assumptions, multiple false assertions, and let your imagination take a wide liberty with my position on the issues. Pretty much your MO in most of your posts.

In typical Lerxst fashion, you came up short and melted down again. You keep trying though, your antics are quite amusing, as is your parting shot here.

There are no Carl's Jr in Florida, obviously research isn't your forte. :doh
 
Let's review your contribution here. The OP was about Obama backing off renewing the AWB. Which is a very good thing. Yet you immediately launch an attack based around immigration related issues and are called on it. You don't comment on his actual backing off of the AWB. Partisanship before all else. Then you proceed to try and show Obama is lying about guns coming from the U.S. because you don't hear about ATF raids on U.S. gun shops. Then when when your logic is exposed as flawed, you abandon the broad argument and focus your attention on the "90%" issue. Towards the end the only thing you can focus on is the "90%" issue and completely run from your original position.

Recapping your case....
They keep talking about tracing all these weapons back to the United States, yet they give no specifics. If they've been traced back here, how come DOJ/ATF/FBI aren't conducting raids to shut down the arms dealers?

Again, suspiciously void of details. Where is the proof, all those weapons are originating from here?
Your insinuation is perfectly clear. You are running the line that the Obama administration is being deceptive about guns being traced back to the U.S. because you've not heard of any U.S. gun dealers being raided by authorities. That's a negative proof argument. "No raids means he is probably lying."

So here you've taken Obama to task for not providing some amount of evidence during a brief foreign policy speech in Mexico. Because Obama didn't present you all this evidence in the speech he's being deceptive about these guns coming from the U.S. This exposes two things about you. You're lazy and you have no depth of understanding regarding U.S./Mexican operations against drug cartels and the associated problems. Just a very small amount of internet research would provide you with enough information to satisfy any questions you might have about the flow of guns from the U.S. to Mexico. As I had shown you with your own link.

Then, when challenged by RNYC you post this....
GottaHurt said:
I then pointed out the real rhetoric, which is the Obama administration claiming that these guns can be traced back to the United States.

Yet, we've seen no proof of it.
Once again you are railing on Obama as being dishonest about these guns being traced back to the U.S. Is this out of your partisanship alone? Or is this once again a demonstration of your lack of initiative to actually educate yourself? If you have a question do you not seek answers? Or do you just go with your gut and say to hell with the rest?

GottaHurt said:
Obama, April 16: A demand for these drugs in the United States is what is helping to keep these cartels in business. This war is being waged with guns purchased not here, but in the United States. More than 90 percent of the guns recovered in Mexico come from the United States, many from gun shops that line our shared border.

Oops, your statement is shot all to hell. Perhaps you can find these shops Obama is referring too. Clinton and Obama have both stated that stopping the flow of guns from the US into Mexico is key to our border security. Yet were not seeing or hearing about any efforts to crack down on these "gun shops that line our shared border".
Here we are once again with you focusing on the line of argument that Obama is lying about guns coming from shop in the U.S. because we are not hearing about raids on these shops. Negative proof argument. But then again, as pointed out earlier...you make this argument from a position of ignorance. Even a cursory amount of research would have provided plenty of evidence. But somehow, because Obama didn't do this for you, he is being dishonest. What is ironic is the fact that you posted a link, which contained other links within it, that would have given you all the info you needed had you actually read it all and researched the article a bit.

GottaHurt said:
Obama, April 16: A demand for these drugs in the United States is what is helping to keep these cartels in business. This war is being waged with guns purchased not here, but in the United States. More than 90 percent of the guns recovered in Mexico come from the United States, many from gun shops that line our shared border.

He openly lied, on the world stage, after these numbers were proven to be false. Clinton tried foisting them on the public three weeks earlier:
Uh oh, now we see the damage control start. Now it's not just about a lack of news regarding raids, it's the "90% lie" he told. This is very interesting because now you are focusing on a specific comment and doing nothing to shore up the holes in your original argument. You provide a link, which you think makes your case, and that disputes Obama's use of the 90% figure as being out of context. Let's examine that link. What is funny is the first sentence of the article summary:
FactCheck.Org: Counting Mexico's Guns
From the article said:
There's no dispute that thousands of handguns, military style rifles and other firearms are purchased in the U.S. and end up in the hands of Mexican criminals each year. It's relatively easy to buy such guns legally in Texas and other border states and to smuggle them across.
Ouch, that's interesting as it directly challenges your original argument. Apparently FactCheck.Org knows something you don't. Let's see, if in light of this new information, you eventually admit that guns do in fact find their way from U.S. gun shops to Mexico.

In this post I proceed to point out the many flaws in your argument, deconstructing it from the foundation up. But what are you almost solely focused on now? Not the OP, not the case of yours I destroyed, but with keeping the spotlight on the liberty Obama took with the 90% figure. Which in no way supports your original argument. Divert! Divert! :rofl

In the middle of your backpedaling and damage control you post this...
GottaHurt said:
I've already supported my arguments with your link, and my link.

Just like Obama & Crew, you fail to produce any sources to this particular point in the debate.
Oh really? Which part of your argument did you support with my link and your link? Oh yes, just the 90% part. You still haven't substantiated your original argument, only your diversion argument in which you insinuated that Obama was lying about guns going across the border.. And I still haven't seen you make any intelligent response to RNYC's inquiry regarding your immigration babbling.

In this post I use your own FactCheck.Org article as the springboard for a little bit of research to provide you all the proof you need about ATF/DEA/FBI/DOJ operations that are the supporting foundation for testimony that gave birth to the 90% figure. You repeatedly questioned the validity of the claim that guns were finding their way to Mexico from the U.S., claiming there was no proof of this, and so I provide it to you. Your reaction to having your original argument dumped on it's head? Nothing. You can't respond to it because you've had your e-mouth slapped shut with information gleaned from your own article. That's twice you managed to set your opponent up to defeat your own argument. Instead, you turn up the volume on the 90% figure issue and ignore completely that your assumptions and insinuations have been thrown back in your face.

So after all this, how does your focus on Obama using the 90% figure out of context support your original argument that there is no proof of guns flowing from U.S. gunshops to Mexico?
 
More than 90 percent of the guns recovered in Mexico come from the United States

I've proven Obama's statement here to be false. He blatantly lied about this statement on the world stage, after Clinton got caught in the lie 3 weeks earlier.

More than 90 percent of the guns recovered in Mexico come from the United States, many from gun shops that line our shared border.

Now add the second half of Obama's statement, and my question was (in bold):

GottaHurt said:
They keep talking about tracing all these weapons back to the United States, yet they give no specifics. If they've been traced back here, how come DOJ/ATF/FBI aren't conducting raids to shut down the arms dealers?

I posted a link that proves Obama lied about the number. The link I provided explains how they arrived at those numbers, and explains how the guns are being traced back here, represented by the purple text.

Now the bold is a legitimate question that I posed. There's no insinuation of deception, treachery or even an accusation being leveled at anyone. Merely a question.

You Lerxst, have this habit of trying to make up your own arguments, based on your own inability to read the written word, and comprehend it as written.

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You have priors of taking the written word and twisting those words into tangents, conspiricies and flat out lies. Let's examine some.

The phantom memo thread, the one you got laughed out of, saw so many stellar statements from you. Your opening salvo:

Lerxst said:
Well this is not a surprise at all. It's very consistent with the White House's conduct in order to try and justify their mistakes. Who it specifically came from is irrelevant, the fact that the high levels of our leadership even attempted this is telling enough.

There's so many posts of yours there, I've linked it.

http://www.debatepolitics.com/breaking-news/34460-top-cia-official-confesses.html#post1057691742

The blatant lying and accusations from you, I reduced you to rubble here:

http://www.debatepolitics.com/breaking-news/44629-deputy-accused-using-excessive-force-teen-girl-3.html#post1057944686

Now in this very thread, the Lerxst imagination goes running off on yet another conspiracy/tangent/strawman argument.

Lerxst said:
It's absolutely relevant when you are making a case that he is using the statement as a tool to build support for a gun grab.

You're constantly creating your own arguments, or just flat out lying to try and make your case. The quote above is a perfect example. Nowhere have I remotely said, implied, insinuated or even suggested such a notion.

You go ahead and keep trying to fit the square peg into the round hole though, and this thread too, will make into the Lerxst Folly Hall of Fame.
 
I've proven Obama's statement here to be false. He blatantly lied about this statement on the world stage, after Clinton got caught in the lie 3 weeks earlier.



Now add the second half of Obama's statement, and my question was (in bold):



I posted a link that proves Obama lied about the number. The link I provided explains how they arrived at those numbers, and explains how the guns are being traced back here, represented by the purple text.

Now the bold is a legitimate question that I posed. There's no insinuation of deception, treachery or even an accusation being leveled at anyone. Merely a question.

You Lerxst, have this habit of trying to make up your own arguments, based on your own inability to read the written word, and comprehend it as written.

In other words, you will continue to highlight the 90% issue and avoid the fact that your original argument was completely debunked. You can try to duck and dodge all you want. You're busted. I've already taken you apart, and no matter how many times you try to rephrase your argument, it doesn't change and it's still here for all to see. I quoted you step by step.

Now in this very thread, the Lerxst imagination goes running off on yet another conspiracy/tangent/strawman argument.


Originally Posted by Lerxst

It's absolutely relevant when you are making a case that he is using the statement as a tool to build support for a gun grab.
You're constantly creating your own arguments, or just flat out lying to try and make your case. The quote above is a perfect example. Nowhere have I remotely said, implied, insinuated or even suggested such a notion.

You go ahead and keep trying to fit the square peg into the round hole though, and this thread too, will make into the Lerxst Folly Hall of Fame.
I know what case you were trying to make here. You wouldn't have brought up his history on gun control and support of a gun ban if you weren't in fact trying to tie it to his out of context use of the 90% figure. Look, you're just not that sly. Stay out of the deep end of the pool and you won't drown.

As to the rest, you just keep on living in your dream world.
 
Obama Repeats '90 Percent' Stat for U.S. Guns Recovered in Mexico
PORT-OF-SPAIN, Trinidad and Tobago -- What's the difference between "recovered" and "traceable" when it comes to firearms seized in Mexico's bloody war against drug cartels?

The White House says none.

But that's a distinction with a difference, even if President Obama used the words interchangeably last week to talk about the role firearms smuggled from the U.S. play in Mexico's stepped up fight against entrenched, well-armed drug cartels.

"This war is being waged with guns purchased not here, but in the United States. More than 90 percent of the guns recovered in Mexico come from the United States, many from gun shops that line our shared border," the president said on the subject in his joint press conference with Mexican President Felipe Calderon on Thursday:

To some, it might sound as if Obama is saying 90 percent of all guns captured from the cartels originated in America. But that's not what the president means, senior National Security Council Spokesman Denis McDonough told FOX News on Saturday.

"By recovered he means traceable, guns traced back to the United States," McDonough said. "These are ATF (Bureau of Alcohol Tobacco and Firearms) numbers. These are the guns submitted to the ATF for tracing. That's what we mean by recovered."

Well so much for your lie theory.
 
I know what case you were trying to make here. You wouldn't have brought up his history on gun control and support of a gun ban if you weren't in fact trying to tie it to his out of context use of the 90% figure. Look, you're just not that sly. Stay out of the deep end of the pool and you won't drown.

Your posts are getting more & more ridiculous.

To some, it might sound as if Obama is saying 90 percent of all guns captured from the cartels originated in America. But that's not what the president means, senior National Security Council Spokesman Denis McDonough told FOX News on Saturday.

Oh yea, it's the truth, just ask him. :lamo
 
Oh yea, it's the truth, just ask him. :lamo

So when he says "that's not what I meant when I said..." you are going to say "oh yes it is!"

Very nice. Playground argument tactics.

Here is the bottom line, at worst, now this is just a misstatement. An instance of him making a statement and not being clear about what he was saying. And only you and few of your cronies will really care, because now that it's clarified...it's really a non-issue.

You-"Oh Obama lied about the 90%!"
Obama-"I didn't actually mean 'all guns recovered', I meant 'all traceable guns that are submitted to the ATF', sorry about that."
You-"Oh hell no, you said it, you said it!!!"
Obama-"Yeah but that's not what I meant."
You-"Too bad loser you said it!"
Obama-"Yeah okay, anyway...no, I don't want an iced mocahchino with that."
 
Sadly, I am thinking that the Obama administration is only backing away from the AWB temporarily. The Dems did learn a big lesson in '94 about how poisonous gun bans are but at their heart, they are still antigun, anti second amendment. The AWB will come back, maybe through some back door effort like a 100% tax or something.
 
I'm also glad he backed down on this also.

I almost hate to say this but a lot of what I'm going to say is the truth,and lot's of people don't think about this.

Living in California there are a lot of illegal, and green card legals here, who have been taking guns back to Mexico for years.

This festering boil has been ignored by our government and Mexico,for the most part,and now Mexico wants to whine about it, and our government also.

If our government and Mexico had enforced the immigration laws we would not be in this situation today,because a lot of the drugs are brought in by illegals.

Now how many of these guns are stolen, or traded for dope.

As long as you have black market you will always have somebody to sell it to,and somebody to buy it,this has happened for thousands of years.

I'm sure if it happens in California, it happens in all the other states also.

Another problem we have are terrorist that enter our country through this wide open border,and I'm sure more people enter here illegally than ever get caught,at the border,and that's the REAL SCARY part of this.
 
Sadly, I am thinking that the Obama administration is only backing away from the AWB temporarily. The Dems did learn a big lesson in '94 about how poisonous gun bans are but at their heart, they are still antigun, anti second amendment. The AWB will come back, maybe through some back door effort like a 100% tax or something.

Not all Dems are anti-gun. I think a lot of it depends upon the amount of liberalism that influences whether or not a particular Dem is anti-gun. I'm a Dem and slightly liberal, but very pro-gun, pro-border fence, pro-punishment of employers who hire illegals, pro-military, pro-Israeli (for the most part).
 
I am glad to hear this. I've been working with the GOA and NRA to oppose this in every way possible. The AWB was an unnecessary and ineffective law to start with, as well as unConstitutional.

No question that it is a politically motivated position... I think the Democrat party is learning: gun control is political poison. They started realizing that when they lost the House in 94, in part over the AWB.

NOW, what I'm wondering is this:

Calderon claims American "assault" weapons getting into Mexico are a problem.

SecState Clinton says America's "unsatiable appetite for drugs" is fueling the drug cartels that are all but in civil war against Mexico's excuse-for-a-government.

WHY is no one renewing calls for a real border fence and border security?



US-Mexico Border Fence / Great Wall of Mexico

Eight billion dollars isn't too much for real border security. Our current budget is what, three trillion? 8 Billion would be only 0.2% of our budget. We sent ten billion to Africa in aid recently. I'd think border security would be worth at least that much, since it would theoretically aid both the USA (illegal immigration and cross-border drug smuggling), and Mexico (lost profits for the drug gangs = lost power, and the alleged gun smuggling problem). As a taxpayer I'd gladly shell out eight billion every year for border security...after all it is reasonably considered one of the enumerated powers (defense).

G.

Can you imagine what kind of stimulus package that would be?

A real one:idea:
 
I'm seeing a trend here with He-Man-Obama-Haters-Club. In the face of evidence that contradicts you, just make **** up. A bit risky, but that's your style. Devil may care, freeballin in your Wranglers and Ann Coulter t-shirts.
You will recall that The Obama did indeed float the idea that there needs to be a reinstatement of the AW ban because, at leat in part, of the crime in Mexico.

And thus, my statement.

Well, you;ll recall that if you;re actually interested in being honest.
 
Can you imagine what kind of stimulus package that would be?

A real one:idea:

And one you can be assured most Americans would get behind and applaud the administration for pushing as well. Would be a win/win I think.
 
The majority of congress is looking out for their "future" potential voters. What surprises me is that the pro war crowd has very little, or nothing to say about strengthening our our borders, but can tell you every thing their is to know about terrorism and the middle east:shock:

Our next foreign attack will be born out of our weak border, all while we show up 3 hrs early to the airport and take off our shoes to send through the x ray machine.

Any bets that a scenario such as this will spark another invasion?
 
You will recall that The Obama did indeed float the idea that there needs to be a reinstatement of the AW ban because, at leat in part, of the crime in Mexico.

And thus, my statement.

Well, you;ll recall that if you;re actually interested in being honest.

He's backed away from it. I don't know how you guys can take good news like this and turn it into bad news... It's beyond comprehension.
 
He's backed away from it. I don't know how you guys can take good news like this and turn it into bad news... It's beyond comprehension.
The point -I- made on this subject is that the reason they aren't going forward with it is that they dont want to lose political power, and then that political power is more important to them than the lives to be (supposedly) saved by banning 'assault weapons'.

Having said that, I am certain that the issue will be addresses by Congress sometime during The Obama administration.
 
The point -I- made on this subject is that the reason they aren't going forward with it is that they dont want to lose political power, and then that political power is more important to them than the lives to be (supposedly) saved by banning 'assault weapons'.

Having said that, I am certain that the issue will be addresses by Congress sometime during The Obama administration.

Democracies are governed in large part by public opinion. The President is not a dictator, although George Bush may have lead you to believe that.
 
Democracies are governed in large part by public opinion. The President is not a dictator, although George Bush may have lead you to believe that.
This is true -- however, some people believe in 'doing the right thing' regardless of the political consquences (see: GWB) and other people put 'doing the right thing' behind the retention of political power.

Of the two, I'll take the former, even if I disagree with them.

Nice needless dig at GWB, BTW. Perhaps someday a REAL dictator will come along, and you'll see how meolodramatic you really are.
 
This is true -- however, some people believe in 'doing the right thing' regardless of the political consquences (see: GWB) and other people put 'doing the right thing' behind the retention of political power.

Of the two, I'll take the former, even if I disagree with them.

Nice needless dig at GWB, BTW. Perhaps someday a REAL dictator will come along, and you'll see how meolodramatic you really are.

George Bush fulfilled his purpose. Thank God he's gone.
 
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