Barack Obama: America Needs “Soul Searching” on Gun Violence (Video)
Posted by Jim Hoft on Monday, August 6, 2012, 9:45 PM
Barack Obama lectured America today saying its time for a “soul searching” on guns following the massacre at the Sikh Temple in Oak Creek, Wisconsin.
Reuters reported:
President Barack Obama said on Monday that mass killings like the shooting rampage at a Sikh temple in Wisconsin were occurring with “too much regularity” and should prompt soul searching by all Americans, but he stopped short of calling for new gun-control laws.
“All of us are heart-broken by what happened,” Obama told reporters at the White House a day after a gunman opened fire on Sikh worshippers preparing for religious services, killing six before he was shot dead by a police officer.
But when asked whether he would push for further gun-control measures in the wake of the shootings, Obama said only that he wanted to bring together leaders at all levels of American society to examine ways to curb gun violence.
That echoed his pledge last month in a speech in New Orleans to work broadly to “arrive at a consensus” on the contentious issue after a deadly Colorado shooting spree highlighted the problem in an election year.
But like his earlier comments, Obama offered no timetable or specifics for such discussions and did not call outright for tighter gun control laws.
Talk of reining in America’s gun culture is considered politically risky for Obama, who is locked in a tight race against Republican challenger Mitt Romney for November election.
“All of us recognize that these kinds of terrible, tragic events are happening with too much regularity for us not to do some soul searching to examine additional ways that we can reduce violence,” Obama said at an Oval Office ceremony to sign an unrelated bill.
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Blacque Jacques Shellacque commented:
The only Americans that should be doing any soul-searching are those that, even in the face of mass brutality, continue to advocate disarming potential victims via gun control.
Jet Jaguar commented:
Mr. President,
I’ll do some soul searching just as soon as I get back from the gun store.
StrangernFiction commented:
Search Obama’s soul and you will find nothing but darkness.
Conservative Ken commented:
He really wants to deep six the 4th amendment and take guns away by force.
regularguy commented:
Mr. President, out here, we’ve been searching for your soul for over 3 years. Haven’t ever found it. We’ll keep looking, but whenever we think we might have found something that seems like it ought to be it, it looks like a deep dark hole.
TeachX3 commented:
So, let me get this straight. Out of the law abiding MASSES, there are a few criminals, crazies and evil people… and because of those few, America needs to do some ‘soul searching’??
MN Jim commented:
The similarity between the Sik Temple and the movie theater shooting is that all the people inside were unarmed and the shooter knew it. The shooter, of course, ignored the :No guns” sign.
TeachX3 commented:
Yea, I don’t think so obama… I’ll continue to cling to my Bible and guns and you go ahead and search for your soul.
donh commented:
Darkness rises when you have a President missing a soul.
Stonedome commented:
I wonder how his golf game went?
bigkahuna commented:
Barry, Search the Holder Office for the gun records for selling them to murderers.
donh commented:
Soul searching was above his pay grade when asked about the mass murders of abortion.
bg commented:
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America Needs Soul Searching??
that.. coming from the first person i have ever
called soulless in my almost 70 years on Earth..
damn you Obama, you may not be the
devil, but you damn well sleep with it..
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Fionnagh commented:
Maybe I’ll sit down for a beer with this guy when he publicly speaks out about “soul-searching” on oh, I dunno, how about the knock-out game, or flash mobs, or “reverends” who damn America from the pulpit….
midusdew commented:
Soulless opinko wacko, you promote death to the unborn innocent. Compare your slaughter to how many people are killed by wackos with guns.. you lose.. Every time!!!
atticcellar commented:
Both of these killers were on the governments “Psyco warfare” payroll in the past.. I don’t believe in coincidence’s..
Gail commented:
Obama, how about we start in Washington DC and then Chicago? Just tell them all it’s a gun/fund raiser. Give them a speech about Gun Control. Bring the train cars to load all the illegal guns in. Trade them a cell phone or manicure for a gun. Yes, that’s a good place to start! Then Detroit, LA, New York and the list goes on and on! We’ll have crime cut in half by the end of the month. Oh Yeah!!!!!
Macc commented:
Soul searching?
Coming from this criminal?
Never give up your firearms for any reason!
Here is an alert from NRA:
http://www.nraila.org/legislation/federal-legislation/2012/anti-gun-lawmakers-push-ammunition-sales-ban.aspx
Anti-Gun Lawmakers Push Ammunition Sales Ban
Posted on August 3, 2012
On Monday, July 30, U.S. Sen. Frank Lautenberg (D-N.J.) and U.S. Rep. Carolyn McCarthy (D-N.Y.) introduced legislation that would impose sweeping new–and not so new–restrictions on ammunition sales.
The bills, S. 3458 and H.R. 6241, are known as the “Stop Online Ammunition Sales Act.” The bill itself has four elements:
• A federal licensing requirement for ammunition sellers;
• Recordkeeping on all ammunition sales;
• Reporting of all sales of more than 1,000 rounds of ammunition to anyone without a federal firearms license within five consecutive business days; and
• A photo identification requirement for all non-licensees buying ammunition, “effectively banning the online or mail order purchase of ammo by regular civilians.”
The two lawmakers’ contempt for “regular civilians” is nothing new, and neither are the first two of the requirements they propose. Starting in 1968, ammunition dealers had to have licenses from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms, and also had to keep records of purchasers. The recordkeeping requirement on .22 caliber rimfire ammunition was so burdensome that it was repealed in 1982. Congress did away with the remaining licensing and recordkeeping provisions as part of the “Firearms Owners’ Protection Act of 1986″ after the BATF itself said the restrictions had “no substantial law enforcement value.”
The proposed bill would turn back the clock to the days when ammunition was only available in person at licensed stores, driving up prices and making less popular cartridges nearly unobtainable for millions of lawful gun owners. The effect of all of these proposals on competitive shooters, who buy ammunition by the case lot for consistent accuracy and shoot tens of thousands of rounds each year in practice, would be especially devastating. And because the word “ammunition” is defined in federal law to include components such as bullets and empty cartridge cases, the bill would be disastrous for handloaders–especially those who enjoy shooting rare, historic cartridges.
In fact, Lautenberg and McCarthy would do well to heed the words of the Obama administration’s top negotiator at the U.N. Arms Trade Treaty conference, who pointed out to the nations of the world that “Ammunition is … fungible, consumable, reloadable, and cannot be marked in any practical way that would permit it to be tracked or traced. Any practical proposal for ammunition would need to consider the significant burdens associated with licensing, authorizations, and recordkeeping for ammunition that is produced and transferred in the billions of rounds per year.”
Please contact your U.S. Senators and your U.S. Representative and urge them to oppose S. 3458 and H.R. 6241 respectively. You can find contact information for your elected officials by using the “Write Your Representatives” tool at http://www.NRAILA.org., or you can call your U.S. Senators at (202) 224-3121 and your U.S. Representative at (202) 225-3121. Once you have taken this action, please be sure to forward this information to your family, friends, and fellow firearm owners, and strongly encourage them to contact their lawmakers as well.
Man the phones and emails everyday!
S. Wolf commented:
No, we just need to get Hussein out of the WH. Mubarack bin Obama if that’s who he is isn’t eligible to be president and he sure as hell isn’t eligible to tell we the peeps what we need to do.
Yrral Dleifsarb commented:
Seeing Zero speak of “soul searching” makes very clear that he is a psychopath. Of course, any parent who would subject their children (or any children) to Rev. Wright’s ranting would have to be a depraved soul. He and his wife must have both made pacts with the Devil. I wonder if Soros was Beelzebub’s personification.
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