President Obama Getting Heat Over Changing the Gun Laws
Tragedies tend to bring people together and they also make people angry. There is probably no easier way to upset the entire nation very quickly than the events which transpired last weekend. The Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre will lie heavy on the hearts and minds of millions of Americans for the next 50 years.
The president isn’t able to get away from this issue and the gun lobby has avoided it almost entirely. The president went to Newtown, Connecticut to console the people of that town, and the visit occurred in the midst of cries from prominent figures for the president and Congress to do something about America’s gun laws. One of those people is New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg.
Bloomberg and various US Senators are calling on President Obama to tell Congress to reinstate the ban on assault weapons. Assault weapons are regularly used in many of the massacres that have taken place over the past year, including the one in Connecticut. Bloomberg praised President Obama for his tearful reaction to the tragedy, but also said that he must now make gun control a priority.
“It’s time for the president to stand up and lead and tell the country what we should do. Not go to Congress and say: what do you guys want to do? This should be his number one agenda. He’s the president of the United States and if he does nothing during his second term, something like 48,000 Americans will be killed with illegal guns. That’s is roughly the number of Americans killed during the whole Vietnam war,” said Bloomberg, on NBC’s Meet the Press.
Bill Clinton pushed the ban on assault weapons through Congress in 1994, and the ban was lifted by the Bush Administration.
“I don’t think the founding fathers had the idea that every man, woman and child could carry an assault weapon,” said Bloomberg. “I think the president through his leadership could get a bill like that through Congress, but at least he’s got to try.”
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Here we go again. Easy to blame the President, when we all know full well that the obstructionist will do everything possible to keep it from happening. then who will we blame? Oh, that’s right President Obama.
Sadly, many rightwingers are calling for “more guns” or that the teachers and staff… “become armed.” These same Conservatives…such as seen on FOX NEWS….complain about how “teachers earn too much money.” But then they should also be armed…and act like cops tooo???? That will only result in more deaths. And yet these same rightwingers are always demeaning TEACHERS…and teachers unions. They want to DE-FUND the Dept. of Education.
These TEA-PUBLICANS ARE NUTS. They tell us that they are “so concerned” about the unborn…but they also don’t want to protect our environment from air & water pollution. They ridicule those who want to fight GLOBAL WARMING and protect our planet from destruction. But they don’t want regulations on guns.
There are too many ASSAULT WEAPONS available…guns and rifles are not difficult to get. There is far too much violence in movies and on TV…video games…in songs, etc. Some Republicans and folks at FOX NEWS a
ct like “Obama is the cause of this problem.” But we were living in this “culture of violence” long before Pres. Obama took office. Pres. BUSH was in the White House talking a lot of “cowboy bad talk.” Republicans love guns and the NRA. They also started that gun-running scam “Fast & Furious” REMEMBER? He and Cheney illegally invaded Iraq. REMEMBER?
Let us not forget that there are a lot of actors and rappers who promote, publish and push their VIOLENT messages, songs, movies, games, and such all the time. And Pres. Obama did not create the “Gangsta Rap” either. I am just saying…put the blame where it belongs.
Some reports have come out today that the young man who committed the shootings was heavily involved in playing violent video games…he had a room full of computers. Was he also taking any Psycho-meds? They can be harmful too. Actor Jamie Foxx has criticized the violence in movies…saying that they do influence people.
It is also well known that a lot of people are not getting proper nutrition these days…eat too much sugary junk foods, etc. Certain nutriients are required for proper brain function. There are an awful lot of shootings, bomb threats, violent attacks, and abuse happening right now…as mentioned by Pres. OBAMA today when he spoke to the grieving people in CT.
There were several murders in CHICAGO… another shooting in Texas, and a mall in CA put on lockdown because of shooter, murder in a major Las Vegas hotel…(and other killings). SINCE THE SHOOTING AT THE SCHOOL in Newtown. This problem is widespread…and should be addressed….by top officials, politicians, psychologists, educators…etc.