Obama Wants Your Guns!

This story was sent to be by both Les and my lovely wife:

Days after the mass shootings in Colorado, guns shifted to the forefront of the presidential campaign as President Barack Obama and Republican candidate Mitt Romney engaged in their most extensive discussions on the issue since the tragedy.

Obama, in a speech to an African-American group Wednesday in New Orleans, embraced some degree of additional restrictions on guns. He acknowledged that not enough had been done to prevent weapons from getting into the hands of criminals and pledged to work with lawmakers from both parties to move forward on the matter….”Too often, those efforts are defeated by politics and by lobbying and eventually by the pull of our collective attention elsewhere,” he said.

Obama called for stepped-up background checks for people who want to purchase guns and restrictions to keep mentally imbalanced individuals from buying weapons. Those steps, he said, “shouldn’t be controversial. They should be common sense.”

From the other copy:

“But I also believe that a lot of gun owners would agree that AK-47s belong in the hands of soldiers and not in the hands of crooks. They belong on the battlefield of war, not on the streets of our cities,” he added.

Well they ARE on the streets, Barry, legally. I used to own an AK-pattern rifle, and I live in a city! I know lots of city folks that own other “Assault Weapons” as you and other stupid people might call them. You obviously don’t think we should have them. Come and take them.

And Tam sums it up best:

At a speech before the Urban League yesterday, where one is expected to talk about street violence in much the same way that one would be expected to discuss soybean yields at a Farm Bureau convention, Obama made some comments that were no doubt carefully focus-grouped to be middle-of-the-road on the whole gun issue. You know the ones: “Duck hunting and Second Amendment good; crime guns and ‘assault weapons’ bad.”

Unfortunately for him, the mic was on and the media has grabbed him by the back of the head and turned what was probably intended to be an exploratory I-dare-ya touch of the Second Amendment third rail with the tip of his tongue into a great big sloppy lick.

Romney may have all he needs to win now, so long as he doesn’t do something stupid…which for Romney will be VERY hard, because just like Barry-O Romney is a fucking idiot!

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0 Responses to Obama Wants Your Guns!

  1. Jack says:

    So…. he wants “common sense” restrictions on “battlefield of war” Ak-47s?

    Welp, he’s either a moron or a liar.

    Either he doesn’t know that a battle-AK is a machine gun and thus already subject to federal control, tracking, and registration. And has had a closed registry since 1986. Gee you think that’s “common sense” enough?

    Or he’s deliberately confusing the issue by invoking a “scary commie and terrorist” gun to blur the lines between the very different legal entities of “semi-automatic box fed gun” and “machine gun”.

    It’s not like Assault Weapons Bans work by banning scary looking cosmetic features or scary sounding names… And it’s not like in neither Tucson nor Aurora were automatic AK’s or any kind of AK used… Wait.

    And even if it were, so what? As Tam says “I don’t care how many people murdered someone last night, I didn’t.” What he proposes, what all gun control proposes, is collective punishment: we’ll go after you for something you, or someone like you, might do.

    Once again we have someone who can’t even be bothered to look at the basic legalities involving the thing he wants to regulate.

  2. bluesun says:

    And now I need to gt an AK-whatevertheheckitis to go with my AR-whatevertheheckitis, when before I had no interest. Good job, Barry.

    • Pyrotek85 says:

      If you can get an Arsenal for a good price go for it. I’m not that fond of the polymer furniture, seemed strong but had a cheap feel if you know what I mean, I replaced it with wood. They’re converted from Saigas and are more consistent than WASRs as far as accuracy and reliability goes.

      • Weerd Beard says:

        Wolf is starting to import AKs of various flavors as well.

        • Pyrotek85 says:

          Wolf as in Wolf ammo? I check those out lol

          • Pyrotek85 says:

            Aw man I’d love to get a VEPR, the only sticking point is most (all?) use a different magazine. I don’t know why a 7.62×39 AK pattern rifle shouldn’t be able to use AK mags, that’s just weird.

          • Weerd Beard says:

            I’d be fine if the non-standard magazines solved the crazy awkward rocking action of the AK mags. (which is the #1 reason why I didn’t like my AK) But the VEPR mags are essentially the same as the AK mags in how they function, and just different in dimensions.

            My same thought about the FN SCAR-17 magazines. Now granted a SCAR-17 mag is simply a metric FAL magazine with the locking tab ground off, and a notch added for the button-style magazine release, but its still a special mag for a gun who’s smaller cousin eats out of STANAG mags.

          • Pyrotek85 says:

            Yeah if there was a real reason it used different mags that’s one thing, but it’s just being different for the hell of it.

  3. alan says:

    Romney is a Republican. The GOP can always do something stupid.

    It’s what they do.

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  5. Kristopher says:

    Yup. As one of Tam’s commenters put it:

    “He gave that third rail an owl-stare, then walked right up to it, whipped it out, and peed on it.”

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