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President Barack Obama empaneled a new task force led by Vice President Joe Biden to develop comprehensive proposals to address gun violence no later than next month.
In the wake of last week's shooting at an elementary school in Newtown, Conn., the president announced a new initiative that would include members of his cabinet and outside organizations to generate proposals to rein in gun violence. He said that any effort should include new restrictions on guns, but also improved access to mental health services and better management of violence in popular culture.
Obama vowed that the new task force would not be just another Washington commission, shorthand for the groups sometimes tasked with studying an issue or event but which often delay or dilute solutions long past the time when the original impetus for such a panel has passed.
President Obama announced Wednesday that Vice President Joe Biden will be developing proposals to curb gun violence, some of which may include banning military-style assault weapons and high-capacity gun clips or magazines. NBC's Pete Williams reports.
Obama said he had asked Biden "to lead an effort that includes members of my cabinet and outside organizations to come up with a set of concrete proposals, no later than January," which the president would then push "without delay."
"This is not some Washington commission. This is not something where folks are going to be studying the issue for six months and publishing a report that gets read, and then pushed aside," the president said. "This is a team that has a very specific task: to pull together real reforms, right now."
Obama expressed support -- restating the position of his press secretary, Jay Carney -- for certain gun measures, including the assault weapons ban, limits on ammunition and closing a loophole allowing gun buyers to elude background checks at gun shows. But he stressed that those were only components of a broader effort to address violence.
The president suggested that stakeholders in those deliberations could possibly include the National Rifle Association -- the gun rights group that had gone silent in the wake of the Newtown shooting, but will hold a press conference on Friday. The president argued that mothers and fathers who compose the NRA's membership had also been impacted by the Newtown shooting.
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President Barack Obama and Vice President Joseph Biden arrive at an announcement on gun reform in the James Brady Press Briefing Room of the White House December 19, 2012 in Washington, DC.
"Their task is going to be to sift through every good idea that's out there, and even take a look at some bad ideas before disposing of them," Obama said of the task force's efforts.
Already, Democrats on Capitol Hill have started to initiate some gun control efforts in the aftermath of Newtown. House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., called Wednesday for Republicans to bring up a vote on high-capacity ammunition magazines by this weekend. And West Virginia Sen. Jay Rockefeller, D, introduced legislation to study the impact of violent video games on children.
Additionally, Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., has said she'll bring up a bill to reinstate the lapsed ban on assault weapons of the first day of the next Congress.
Few Republicans have stepped forward to embrace any of these gun measures, though, and have focused instead on the need for improved mental health services, or school safety.
Obama said his task force's proposals would make up part of his State of the Union address, and he expressed hope that the searing images from last week's shooting in Connecticut would last in the public conscious and help advance his eventual proposals.
"I would hope that our memories aren't so short that what we saw in Newtown isn't lingering with us -- that we don't remain passionate about it, only a month later," he said.
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Obama looks like he just ran out of coke in that pic up above
He will have to call his peeps back Chi town for a pick me up.
Any excuse to hate.
not hate just observation
Note to the drooling, inbred, halfwit teapublican contingent...
Tax increases are coming to the "jawwb kreyators"
And
Gun control, is coming to 'Merka....
And there's nothing the droolers can do about it... LOL!!!!
Bet Me K1200RS nothing is coming but hot air.
You're cute... Not bright of course,.. but highly entertaining...
Ask mom for something to do...
Good luck !!!
We are all going to get tax increases. Provided you pay taxes. As for gun control? Yeah, they will pass somekind of feel good crap that won't matter much. Nobody is giving up their guns. Just another scare.
Larry- Fact has no berring on Liberal Logic Just cause they say so it is true.
Facts are ignored by righties.... and never really produced either. Unless it's from the GOP Faux News Department of Ministry
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crime_in_the_United_States
Itsabouttime read this or have mommy read it to you
Wikipedia? LOL that's not a very reliable resource now is it. Find a better source and.. re state your 'real' point and intent. It looks like you can use the internet. so please, google something better.
Then.. when you are done... please by all means, show me what your solution to the problem is...
Itsabouttime=
try disputing the facts and the sources
1. The first one from an article in the leftist English paper the Guardian is taken from the UN
2. The FBI report directly from their website
3. The European report is from professors at the University of Naples in Italy and is fully footnoted with the list of references
WikoPEDIA?
Try finding a BETTER source. Cmon.... Even a 5th grader can find better sources.
2007 to 2011 Violent crime decreased by 200,000 Source FBI uniform crime reports.
CCW holders increased.
Murder
by State, Types of Weapons, 2011
StateTotal
murders1Total
firearmsHandgunsRiflesShotgunsFirearms
(type
unknown)Knives or
cutting
instrumentsOther
weaponsHands, fists,
feet, etc.2
Alaska
29
16
5
0
3
8
6
5
2
Arizona
339
222
165
14
9
34
49
59
9
Arkansas
153
110
52
4
6
48
22
17
4
California
1,790
1,220
866
45
50
259
261
208
101
Colorado
147
73
39
3
5
26
22
31
21
Connecticut
128
94
54
1
1
38
18
10
6
Delaware
41
28
18
0
3
7
8
2
3
District of Columbia
108
77
37
0
1
39
21
9
1
Georgia
522
370
326
16
16
12
61
83
8
Hawaii
7
1
0
1
0
0
2
1
3
Idaho
32
17
15
1
0
1
4
8
3
Illinois3
452
377
364
1
5
7
29
29
17
Indiana
284
183
115
9
12
47
36
43
22
Iowa
44
19
7
0
2
10
10
10
5
Kansas
110
73
31
3
5
34
11
16
10
Kentucky
150
100
77
6
5
12
13
24
13
Louisiana
485
402
372
10
8
12
28
29
26
Maine
25
12
3
1
1
7
4
7
2
Maryland
398
272
262
2
5
3
75
34
17
Massachusetts
183
122
52
0
1
69
30
22
9
Michigan
613
450
267
29
15
139
43
89
31
Minnesota
70
43
36
3
3
1
12
12
3
Mississippi
187
138
121
6
4
7
26
14
9
Missouri
364
276
158
13
9
96
28
42
18
Montana
18
7
2
3
1
1
4
5
2
Nebraska
65
42
35
2
1
4
7
9
7
Nevada
129
75
46
2
1
26
20
25
9
New Hampshire
16
6
1
2
1
2
4
6
0
New Jersey
379
269
238
1
5
25
51
41
18
New Mexico
121
60
45
2
2
11
21
32
8
New York
774
445
394
5
16
30
160
143
26
North Carolina
489
335
235
26
19
55
60
57
37
North Dakota
12
6
3
0
0
3
4
0
2
Ohio
488
344
187
8
13
136
44
80
20
Oklahoma
204
131
99
8
9
15
26
21
26
Oregon
77
40
13
1
2
24
22
10
5
Pennsylvania
636
470
379
8
19
64
73
66
27
Rhode Island
14
5
1
0
0
4
5
4
0
South Carolina
319
223
126
10
12
75
38
40
18
South Dakota
15
5
3
1
0
1
4
3
3
Tennessee
373
244
172
7
13
52
51
62
16
Texas
1,089
699
497
37
48
117
175
134
81
Utah
51
26
15
4
1
6
5
9
11
Vermont
8
4
2
0
0
2
2
2
0
Virginia
303
208
110
10
15
73
33
41
21
Washington
161
79
58
1
3
17
29
36
17
West Virginia
74
43
23
10
3
7
11
13
7
Wisconsin
135
80
60
7
3
10
21
13
21
Wyoming
15
11
7
0
0
4
0
1
3
Virgin Islands
38
31
27
0
0
4
5
2
0
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Opps Its feeling stupid again. I picked Wicki because they don't use big words I wanted you to read it.
Maybe Barack Hussein could reduce drunk driving fatalities by raising taxes on gasoline to $1,000 a gallon.
Well, that would probably work, but that doesn't make it a good idea.
Vern... the longer you maintain an insane argument, the weaker your original case gets.
Is Barack Hussein considering banning barrel shrouds? ...you know, the shoulder thing that goes up?
Wow still at it? Your life must be really boring that you have to post drivel in hopes it will get you attention... sad
There is a logical solution to this problem, pass a law that
makes it mandatory to have one police officer for every 500 students on every
school grounds in America, if we cannot protect our children then what future
does any of us have, ironically there is better security at the average mall,
why do you suppose people go into a school and attack multiple victims, simple –
several targets and zero chance of another gun there to defend them, if it were
a known fact that there were armed guards in every school it will automatically
decrease the incidents because the assailants would know that they will be met
with force immediately, despite the fact that it appears to be the end result
of death to the assailant and this is their final objective, there primary one
seems to be to take out as many on the way out as they can.
It is completely obvious to me that we have reached the
point in society were armed police at every school is the only solution to the immediate
problem, guns are and will always be available, what is not is an equalizing
force, time to balance the equation.
A better answer is to give all the kids a gun.
Barack Hussein's next move is to ban seatbelts, in the hopes of reducing traffic fatalities.
Little vern is a special needs student, who craves attention...
Mommy works nights....
Be nice to little vern...
OK, Vern the troll, we've given you enough attention now. Goodbye and I hope you find peace someday.
hey K is it past your bedtime. Its time for grownups to have a converstion.
Vern, you are as crazy as the shooter. I hope you don't own a gun.
Don, I have owned many guns, and have been shooting since the '60s.
I am currently a Glock factory trained armorer, have shot competitively, and generally know a thing or two about guns.
K1200RS
I take it you have a motorcycle? What if they said well to many deaths occur when people ride a bike with motors greater then 450CC so now you cant legally own or buy a new motor cycle. After all you can drive a 450cc bike 60mph so you have no 'need' for anything bigger right? Its about your rights maybe you don't have a gun but there are other rights that sooner or later could be taken away. IE in uk they have lots of restriction on noise so many motor sports/hobbies have restrictions....is that what we want.
I want to own an ICBM. The 2nd amendment guarantees that I can. Don't tell me I can not own one. They are great fun to shoot and might be needed someday to protect my family.
Another Liberal running off at the mouth, Alway going to extreme to make a useless point.
LOL exactly. I mean, hey, that's a GUN right? Big gun at that, and well, let's face it, the right says we can have our 2nd amendment rights. Let's have one of those ICBMs on every street in america.
If you can build one then go for it. Its not like Obama or any one else has done any good at stopping Iran and North Korea from working on building them.
Solare: "Alway going to extreme to make a useless point."
Which is exactly what the gun worshippers have been doing on here all week.
ouch burn, Read the Facts
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crime_in_the_United_States
Crime is going down,
Okay, deal. If you can put up the cash for the multiple billions of dollars to purchase it, secure it, and store it, you can have one. That's subject to sales tax too. A pleasure doing business with you.
the limits on which weapons Americans can possess has already been determined in US v Miller and District of Columbia v Heller
United States v Miller concluded that citizens had a 2nd amendment right to "ordinary military equipment" that could "contribute to the common defense.
We therefore read Miller to say only that the Second Amendment does not protect those weapons not typically possessed by law-abiding citizens for lawful purposes, such as short-barreled shotguns. That accords with the historical understanding of the scope of the right, see Part III, infra.25
Like most rights, the right secured by the Second Amendment is not unlimited. From Blackstone through the 19th-century cases, commentators and courts routinely explained that the right was not a right to keep and carry any weapon whatsoever in any manner whatsoever and for whatever purpose. See, e.g., Sheldon, in 5 Blume 346; Rawle 123; Pomeroy 152–153; Abbott 333. For example, the majority of the 19th-century courts to consider the question held that prohibitions on carrying concealed weapons were lawful under the Second Amendment or state analogues. See, e.g., State v. Chandler, 5 La. Ann., at 489–490; Nunn v. State, 1 Ga., at 251; see generally 2 Kent *340, n. 2; The American Students’ Blackstone 84, n. 11 (G. Chase ed. 1884). Although we do not undertake an exhaustive historical analysis today of the full scope of the Second Amendment, nothing in our opinion should be taken to cast doubt on longstanding prohibitions on the possession of firearms by felons and the mentally ill, or laws forbidding the carrying of firearms in sensitive places such as schools and government buildings, or laws imposing conditions and qualifications on the commercial sale of Citeas: 554 U. S. ___— (2008) 55 Opinion of the Court
We also recognize another important limitation on the right to keep and carry arms. Miller said, as we have explained, that the sorts of weapons protected were those “in common use at the time.” 307 U. S., at 179. We think that limitation is fairly supported by the historical tradition of prohibiting the carrying of “dangerous and unusual weapons.” See 4 Blackstone 148–149 (1769); 3 B. Wilson, Works of the Honourable James Wilson 79 (1804); J. Dunlap, The New-York Justice 8 (1815); C. Humphreys, A Compendium of the Common Law in Force in Kentucky 482 (1822); 1 W. Russell, A Treatise on Crimes and Indictible Misdemeanors 271–272 (1831); H. Stephen, Summary of the Criminal Law 48 (1840); E. Lewis, An Abridgment of the Criminal Law of the United States 64 (1847); F. Wharton, A Treatise on the Criminal Law of the United States 726 (1852). See also State v. Langford, 10 N. C. 381, 383–384 (1824); O’Neill v. State, 16 Ala. 65, 67 (1849);
English v. State, 35 Tex. 473, 476 (1871); State v. Lanier, 71 N. C. 288, 289 (1874).
It may be objected that if weapons that are most useful in military service—M-16 rifles and the like—may be banned, then the Second Amendment right is completely detached from the prefatory clause. But as we have said, the conception of the militia at the time of the Second Amendment’s ratification was the body of all citizens capable of military service, who would bring the sorts of lawful weapons that they possessed at home to militia duty. It may well be true today that a militia, to be as effective as militias in the 18th century, would require sophisticated arms that are highly unusual in society at large. Indeed, it may be true that no amount of small arms could be useful against modern-day bombers and tanks. But the fact that modern developments have limited the degree of fit between the prefatory clause and the protected right cannot change our interpretation of the right.
http://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/07pdf/07-290.pdf
So we have 2 SCOTUS opinions affirming the right of citizens to keep military grade weapons that are most useful for military personnel.
This alone will not fix anything!! POLICE OFFICER IN EVERY SCHOOL IN THE NATION!! We send billions in aid to hostile countries!! POLICE OFFICER IN EVERY SCHOOL IN THE NATION!! Repost to save our children!
What a hypocrite! Mr. President, you're concerned that 20 children are dead because a mentally disturbed young man went rouge and killed them? How about the hundreds or thousands who died because you voted in favor of denying them assistance after an abortionist MD botched his job and they survived? Rot in HELL!
Logic and reality has left the building, and therefore so
shall I…..
me too
Me three. Its nothing now but the success stories of Bush's no child left behind policy.
I get you can count Obamas record on 1 hand. have you noticed Gitmo is still open.
"Among the many misdeeds of British rule in India, history will look upon the Act depriving a whole nation of arms as the blackest."
-- Mohandas Gandhi, An Autobiography, pg 446
Ban guns, spoons, rock and rap music, video games, cars and capitalism and we'll have Utopia
Liberals watch too much Star Trek.
Conservatives watch to much Faux News
"The best we can hope for concerning the people at large is that they be properly armed."
-- Alexander Hamilton, The Federalist Papers at 184-188
and did Alexander Hamilton say "we should have assault weapons on the streets of "America"
and the purpose behind having people armed back then was what... Oh wait, to protect a YOUNG nation from invasion by england?
As usual, epic fail.
P.S. Flying the American flag Upside down in your pic? What a disgrace to every man/woman that gave up their lives to defend this country.
hey "its" It means Distress Stupid, You are so dumb.
Yawn.... IF someone is going to "QUOTE" a blood relative of MINE. Hamilton, they sure as hell better do it right and use it in the context he stated it in. I have some of his letters.and PROOF on the family bloodlines.
Dumb? Go look in the mirror
Not to mention Assult weapons are illegal anyway.
"Taking my gun away because I might shoot someone is like cutting my tongue out because I might yell `Fire!' in a crowded theater."
-- Peter Venetoklis
"To disarm the people... was the best and most effectual way to enslave them."
-- George Mason, speech of June 14, 1788
"Both oligarch and tyrant mistrust the people, and therefore deprive them of arms."
--Aristotle
"A man willing to trade security for freedom deserves neither"
time flies like an arrow
fruit flys, like a banana...
Because of the Democrats in Mass they have tightest gun laws and the laxest DUI laws. Leberal Upside down logic
Yawn..... hmm.. wait.. wasn't... ROMNEY GOV of MASS? Hmmmm.
Epic fail
Balack Insane can wish in one hand & $hit in the other. He won't ever be able to disarm America. It's all a knee jerk , feel good bunch of crap. It will be something else next week.
Idiots with no musket balls.
Suzanna Gratia Hupp's testimony (see youtube) really says a lot. Pretty sobering stuff.
You can always count on the low iq hillbillies,to back an outdated second amendment,when there where muskets fired.
Loooooooooooosers
I believe the best thing to happen is for obama's secret service to be disarmed !
I am very saddened by the massacre at Sandy Hook. I find myself welling up each time I see one of the little victims on the internet and TV. But more importantly, I am angry. I am angry at myself and at my fellow Americans. I am angry for letting ourselves be bullied by the likes of the NRA, big oil, the Tea-party, the Koch brothers. I have had enough! I will not be bullied anymore. I will start by supporting aggressive gun control and have already started to donate money to organizations to promote gun control.
Might want to start pissing into the wind too.
Yeah George Soros too! And those darn Unions! No more bullying! We want to worship our Obama-God with his huge ears and all-knowing brain. All Hail, Obama!
Better than being pissed on!
Just a plumber, is the best you can do is resort to name calling?
707320C
Turn off the TV... I think part of the problem is the news media. They plays these stories over and over. Lets show the pics again for the 6th day in a row. The more play this gets the more incentive we give the next crazy person to upstage the last. This country has had a lot of mass killing and not all by gun so I think we are being a little naive that banning or more gun control is going to fix this issue.
“A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and carries his banner openly. But the traitor moves amongst those within the gate freely, his sly whispers rustling through all the alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself. For the traitor appears not a traitor; he speaks in accents familiar to his victims, and he
wears their face and their arguments, he appeals to the baseness that lies deep in the hearts of all men. He rots the soul of a nation, he works secretly and unknown in the night to undermine the pillars of the city, he infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist. A murderer is less to fear.” ― Marcus Tullius Cicero
This alone will not fix anything!! POLICE OFFICER IN EVERY SCHOOL IN THE NATION!! We send billions in aid to hostile countries!! POLICE OFFICER IN EVERY SCHOOL IN THE NATION!! Repost to save our children!
Liberals don't like that one. what if it worked. they don't like police states.
Conservatives don't like paying public employees--union at that!
Really that one is funny. I was a public employee and jerry brown is slashing and burning the payrol. Again so very dumb