NRA: Obama "attacking firearms and ignoring children"
President Obama unveiled a comprehensive agenda to curb gun violence today at the White House, and the National Rifle Association, true to form, did not find much to like in the president's proposals, issuing a response accusing Mr. Obama of "attacking firearms and ignoring children."
Mr. Obama's proposal, which includes strengthened gun control laws, reformed mental health care, and a raft of executive orders, would only affect "honest, law abiding gun owners" while leaving our children "vulnerable to the inevitability of more tragedy," said the NRA.
Despite their steadfast opposition to the president's agenda, the association took care to link themselves to the president's goal of reducing gun violence. "Keeping children and society safe remains our top priority," promised the organization, vowing to work "with Congress on a bipartisan basis to find real solutions to protecting America's most valuable asset - our children."
The temperate tone stands in stark contrast to the stridency of an ad released yesterday by the association that denounced President Obama as an "elitist hypocrite" for resisting calls for armed guards in schools while employing Secret Service agents to protect his own daughters.
The ad drew a heated condemnation from White House Press Secretary Jay Carney, who told CBS News Chief White House Correspondent Major Garrett that "to make the safety of the president's children the subject of an attack ad is repugnant and cowardly."
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On 12-20-12 Terry Gross talked w Mr. Diaz about his book, "The Last Gun--how changes in the gun industry are responsible for the rise in gun violence". It's the history of the assault rifle, which was made for the US military because they're not marksmen, & wasn't to get into the civilian population. Oh, but the gun industry decided that the slow down in sales didn't give them enough profit. Congressman Scott Tiahart of Kansas puts an Amendment on Appropriation Bills because he knows that they will pass. The Amendment forbids the CDC and others to track gun violence, because the gun lobby knows that if the American People have THE FACTS the gun industry loses. Scott Tiahart is, he's one of those Fundamentalists who dominates the TEA PARTY, who want a Christian Theocracy in the U.S. using the Book of Leviticus for Rule of Law, who tells the U.S. military "you're in God's Army doing God's work; he's supposedly pro-life. NPR, Fresh Air, 12-20-2012 get the transcript or listen to the whole interview. Protect the U.S. by being informed. Guns is the same ignorance, lies, and deceit the Right Wing uses for everything. And things aren't working out with the rest of their "DEATH SPIRAL" policies and "murder for profit" alliances. How bad can that get, to where the planet is total chaos?
Planet is on a trajectory to become uninhabitable. We go over a permanent, irreversible cliff 2015 from the Keystone XL Pipeline & those tar sands spewing 70% more pollution into the atmosphere than conventional oil. They created fraud studies about the jobs the Keystone Pipeline would create, just like they do with everything else. It's only a couple thousand, temp., construction jobs. We could be growing GDP by 158% w millions of Green and Infrastructure jobs, leave THE DEBT in the dust and get a Sustainable future. (REINVENTING FIRE, rmi.org) If you really want to know how corrupt the GOP is go to Moyers & Company & watch one expose' after another since 1-13-12 & particularly 1-4-2013 w Mr. Leiserowitz from Yale about the GOP and BIG OIL's "Disinformation Campaign". There's also a couple of articles on Bill McKibbens, founder of 350.org, & he lays out all the numbers. 15 years until we reach another increase in one degree temp in Celcius. It took 100 years to get the first increase but the 2nd is coming in 15 years. Every other measurable area is also out-of-control. They've destabilized the atmosphere with all the moisture that's being driven off the warmer oceans. It means that storms like Sandy w the $70 BILLION price tag, or Irene in 2010, or Issac in 2011 that flooded around New Orleans again, or Katrina, or Bopha which hit the Philippines in early Dec 2012 will become common place. Bopha killed 2000 people and left 1 million homeless. Same thing w sea level rise. It's 60% accelerated. They were expecting 3 feet rise by 2100 & every indication now is it will be 3 feet by 2025, 60 feet by 2100. Watch the documentaries? "Chasing Ice" by James Balog. 16 cameras record the deterioration of the ICE SHEETS. One of them just receded more in 3 yrs than the previous 100 yrs. All that is becoming sea level rise or no more clean water for India. "PBS, NOVA "Megastorms--how the hurricanes listed above will be commonplace". PBS, NOVA, "Secrets Beneath The Ice"--the melting of Antarctica will account for much of that 60 ft sea level rise. PBS, Frontline's "Climate of Doubt--GOP, BIG OIL's "Disinformation Campaign". A group committed to a Campaign of DECEIT that resultantly creates nothing but "DEATH SPIRAL" policies--1) Global Warming, 2) Keystone XL pipeline, 3) "cut and gut" budget that was forced on Roosevelt causing a double-dip driving unemployment past 15% that they want to do again, 4) repeal FINANCE REFORM so derivatives stuffed w junk can damage the economy for the 4th time just like 1987 (S&L), 1998 (LTCM), 2008 (Subprime)& all their "Murder for profit" listed above; well a group that sick, that dysfunctional, that psychotic doesn't belong in positions of power at any level of government. Clean out the corruption in the U.S Congress 2014, 2016. The DAMAGE REPORT is already in on their 3 decades of lies about Global Warming--they've killed TENS of MILLIONS & there's BILLIONS in damages to be TRILLIONS by 2020. We could be growing GDP by 158% w millions of jobs, leave THE DEBT in the dust,& get a Sustainable Future but for the GOP and the corrupt corporations who own them.
7. March 24, 1998: Mitchell Johnson, 10, and Andrew Golden, 8, take seven guns to school near Jonesboro, Ark. They pull the fire alarm and start shooting as everyone exits the school, killing four students and one teacher as well as injuring nine others. They are released from a juvenile detention center in 2005.
How in the heck will a armed guard inside the school protect these kids from waiting killers outside the school.
3. April 20, 1999: Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold walk into Columbine High School and in a rampage of gunfire and homemade bombs kill 12 students, one teacher, and themselves. In this case there were two gunmen (teenagers) and there was a armed guard at the school but was out powered so now we need more than just one armed guard.
2. Aug. 1, 1966: Charles Whitman takes a rifle to the tower on the campus of the University of Texas-Austin and kills 16 people in a rampage that goes on almost nonstop for 96 minutes before Whitman is shot dead by police. Here's another example where the killer is outside of the school.
No gun law is going to stop some kid from getting a hold of their guarden's weapons so they can kill people, we can only hope the number of deaths are reduced by the number of rounds in the clip.
You have to agree that even one armed guard may stop a shooting. But no way will limiting magazine capacity stop ANY shootings.
Smarten up on what gun control really is people. I understand every is hurting, Sandy Hook sucked. But what if, their had been one armed guard? What if? now ask your self another question- what if he had 13 ten round magazines? Would that have stopped him?
Its time to be honest with your selves and each other. Guns will never go away in the US. Not if I have my way, among others as well. So what do you do? Fight fire with fire so to speak? Or just pass feel good legislation and "hope" for the criminals to listen to the laws.
-We have a gun free zone surrounding all schools in the us.
-Drunk driving is illegal. Yet look at those stats compared to gun violence.
If you think the gun market is good now. Wait until they are illegal. Just like drugs smuggled in from Mexico. At least now you can do a back round check on US citizens who want to buy a gun. legally. When they are illegal- there will be NO back round checks. Think I am joking? Look at the gun crime stats in Mexico now.
In Canada they have strict background checks, registration of all guns, safety training required, waiting periods and immediate family notification. And they have much much less gun violence even though they have more guns per person.
Let's grow up and evolve.
The Canadians have much better beer than we do so they are a more mellow and not so high strung as we in the states.