Report: Obama to push assault weapons ban next year
Press secretary Jay Carney said the president would back Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) when she introduces legislation at the opening of the next Congress to ban certain assault weapons in the United States.
Carney said the president would also support other gun-control efforts, including legislation to close the “gun show loophole” on background checks and prevent the sale of high-capacity ammunition clips.
The president has reached out to lawmakers who have expressed a new willingness to consider gun restrictions in the wake of Friday’s mass shooting in Newtown, Conn., that claimed the lives of 27 people, including 20 children. Carney said Obama has been “heartened” by the willingness to consider such measures from Democrats who have been strong supporters of gun rights.
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The Weeper of the House?
petefrt on December 18, 2012 at 3:38 PM
How about we ban lunatics walking the streets first? How about that?
Stu Gotts on December 18, 2012 at 3:38 PM
Penny ante victories while you refuse to address the massive hole you’re digging for your children with you unquestionably failed policies.
We’ll be cleaning up after you people for decades.
Chuck Schick on December 18, 2012 at 3:40 PM
Yes, I remember the revolt from the last AWB.
Good times, good times.
Rebar on December 18, 2012 at 3:40 PM
Curt
doh…my bad
cmsinaz on December 18, 2012 at 3:41 PM
But remember our president only does things if they work – he doesn’t just lazily fall back on his ideology.
gwelf on December 18, 2012 at 3:42 PM
Pot, meet kettle.
Stu Gotts on December 18, 2012 at 3:44 PM
Isn’t it funny how the left whines that they can’t deport 12 million illegal aliens, so they throw up their hands and won’t even try to deport a single one. Yet somehow they think they can ban and confiscate countless millions of guns in peaceful households all across our (once) great nation.
UltimateBob on December 18, 2012 at 3:44 PM
That’s because those guns can’t vote democrat.
CurtZHP on December 18, 2012 at 3:46 PM
People will do what I tell them to.
-Obama
Gatsu on December 18, 2012 at 3:47 PM
How do you know that? She was probably pretty adept at her craft.
Seems this ignorant, hateful troll didn’t have much of an upbringing, its mommy was probably too busy servicing the fleet for crack money.
UltimateBob on December 18, 2012 at 3:47 PM
Why do you want to take away a woman’s right to defend herself?
gwelf on December 18, 2012 at 3:47 PM
You got it.
UltimateBob on December 18, 2012 at 3:47 PM
Invest in Ruger and S&W today. Not kidding. Their stock is going to go through the roof.
rogerb on December 18, 2012 at 3:48 PM
The last one didn’t include the current Feinstein proposal of banning the sale and manufacture of about 80% or greater of handguns and rifles currently produced.
BierManVA on December 18, 2012 at 3:50 PM
Play that 911 call of the women with a newborn who was screaming she didn’t want to shoot the guy trying to break in, but she would if he didn’t go away. He got in and then he died. Heaven only knows what awful things would’ve happened to her if she didn’t have a gun to protect herself and her baby.
txhsmom on December 18, 2012 at 3:53 PM
Internet toughguys like lostmotherland and the resident retard sesquistupid would be first in line to turn in their neighbors. Doubtful they would have the balls to attempt to do it themselves.
HumpBot Salvation on December 18, 2012 at 3:53 PM
Define “assault” weapon… Poison? Bricks? Knives? Guns? Fists? Baseball bats? Words? Scissors? Razors? Hatchets? Axes? Cleavers? Glass? Broken bottles? Ice picks? Mace? Pepper spray? Clubs? Jack handles? Tire irons? Explosives? Acid? Lye? Scalding water? Fire?
Why some and not others?
Fallon on December 18, 2012 at 3:53 PM
Really just sounds like lip service to a bill he knows isn’t going anywhere.
RMOccidental on December 18, 2012 at 3:53 PM
Gee, that “gun show loophole” that doesn’t exist. Unless, of course, I need a background check now to buy beef jerky. Or T-shirts. Or knives. Or backpacks. Or books.
The false “gun show loophole” is that vendors don’t have to do background checks. Vendors selling guns have to conduct background checks. Tshirt and jerky vendors…not so much.
Individuals selling a firearm or two of theirs never have had to run a background check. At least in my state of Florida..the “gunshine state.”
But yeah, some of that jerky is a little spicy.
ProfShadow on December 18, 2012 at 3:54 PM
On second thought, get that woman in front of a camera. Now.
txhsmom on December 18, 2012 at 3:54 PM
You forgot knitting needles!
txhsmom on December 18, 2012 at 3:55 PM
Because it’s hard to look all gansta style with a pair of scissors.
CurtZHP on December 18, 2012 at 3:56 PM
If this were to pass the firearms industry would literally stop overnight, at least in the US.
At that point you will see foreign guns flooding into the black market via Canada, Mexico, and overseas. Driven largely by people trying to make easy money and various cartels and organized crime families/groups looking to expand into a newly created and expensive market.
Gatsu on December 18, 2012 at 3:56 PM
Even when you hold them sideways.
CurtZHP on December 18, 2012 at 3:56 PM
Comrade … exactly who is the absolutist here?
You want to take our money, take our guns, take our fuel, tell us what to eat, tell us where to live, tell us what to drive and force us to join unions.
Go to hell.
darwin on December 18, 2012 at 3:57 PM
Yup. That’s why they are useful idiots. Dictators depend on their kind. They only realize the error of their ways when their beloved state turns on them. Which it will because we have history as our guide.
Frank Enstine on December 18, 2012 at 3:58 PM
You came to the wrong neighborhood MOFO!
GONNA CROSHAY YOU RIGHT HERE MAN!
Gatsu on December 18, 2012 at 3:59 PM
How about an assault weapons ban on U.S. Attorneys General?
Sleazy Eric Holder’s Fast and Furious body count for his drug cartel buddies topped about 302 before many lost track.
Janet Barbecue Reno’s body Waco count was about 80 after she sent in the tanks.
Lanza’s Friday is what sleazy Eric Holder would call “practice.”
viking01 on December 18, 2012 at 4:00 PM
The more centralized and powerful a government becomes, the more paranoid it gets. Paranoid governments don’t tend to treat their citizens very well.
darwin on December 18, 2012 at 4:01 PM
If he only could debate
Rick Perry is on our side
gophergirl on December 18, 2012 at 4:01 PM
None of the weapons you list propel scary little chunks of metal at you or make loud scary bangs. T
Frank Enstine on December 18, 2012 at 4:02 PM
Let’s hope history repeats itself in general.
totherightofthem on December 18, 2012 at 4:04 PM
♫♪You’ve got to pick up every stitch,
You’ve gotta pick-up ev-ry stitch,
Must be the Season-of-the-Witch…. ♪♫
Speaking of which, How’s Hillary?
viking01 on December 18, 2012 at 4:04 PM
Legal gunowners follow the law.
First they’ll ban the sale and manufacture of guns, and since nearly everyone already has theirs, there won’t be a revolt. Then, they’ll have everyone register the guns they have, and 90% of owners will comply, because they’re law abiding and it’s only registering them. Then, they’ll demand you turn over the “evil” semiautos, and again 90% of owners will comply, because they’ll fear what happens if they don’t. Then they’ll pick up the others a few at a time, and the MSM will paint them as the greatest villains ever.
The English thumped their chests, before handing theirs in without a whimper. Australians, same sad story. Americans didn’t vote their guns, and someone who won’t vote their guns won’t fight for their guns.
The only way to stop this, is for the red states to leave the union. Short of that, the federal government will get it’s way sooner or later – we are well past the tipping point.
Rebar on December 18, 2012 at 4:07 PM
In hiding.
totherightofthem on December 18, 2012 at 4:07 PM
Wait…you mean it’s illegal to murder people?
Good Lt on December 18, 2012 at 4:09 PM
I really didn’t want to say it but………..
Liberal know spree shootings are an anomaly. They don’t really fear the solid citizen white guy but they nearly die at thought of a black or Hispanic dude pointing a gun at them. That’s the real fear due to their instilled deep down racism. They stupidly think that banning guns will keep them out of the hands of the gangster thugs who are all persons of color to them, and thus safe.
Frank Enstine on December 18, 2012 at 4:10 PM
My heart just fluttered just a little reading that.
The Count on December 18, 2012 at 4:10 PM
since liberals talk so much about “compromise — here’s a damn compromise for you parasites
Require ID to vote everywhere, then you can ask for ID/background checks to buy guns nationally
Otherwise, kiss off
I’ll be stocking up on all kinds of toys now after XMas now– every rumor I hear about them dreaming about regulating something, I’m going to go buy 10 of them
thurman on December 18, 2012 at 4:13 PM
Let’s start with disarming the ATF, et al.
totherightofthem on December 18, 2012 at 4:13 PM
Yup and has been for a long time. Now killing people is a different matter. That may not be illegal in some cases.
Frank Enstine on December 18, 2012 at 4:14 PM
Like when kindergarten is still five years and a few months away?
CurtZHP on December 18, 2012 at 4:15 PM
Still think F&F matters? Dream on. Our first black president is so far above the law that it really doesn’t come into consideration for him and his whole administration just rides those coattails. Dismantle the AFT? More like expand it to massive size in order to carry out the gun confiscation ban to it’s conclusion. Then have all those ATF agents walking the streets asking for your papers.
Frank Enstine on December 18, 2012 at 4:18 PM
I know
gophergirl on December 18, 2012 at 4:20 PM
Oh, I know the country couldn’t care less about F&F. I was just throwing this out there because that lack of interest annoys the hell out of me and I’d dearly love to dismantle the ATF.
totherightofthem on December 18, 2012 at 4:20 PM
This is as much nonsense today as it was yesterday. 48% of Americans did vote for their guns in the last election, and plenty have voted with their pocketbooks in record numbers since then as well.
xblade on December 18, 2012 at 4:23 PM
I was thinking along the lines of when it’s self-defense but I do get your point. Well made actually.
I guess it could be argued that the school shooting was manslaughter because he didn’t target specific victims he knew but, I consider it murder because he planned it out and targeted a particular school.
Frank Enstine on December 18, 2012 at 4:23 PM
Pssst, hey dummy—
That only works in cities and states where you can pester your opponents into moving away. When they have nowhere else to go, they fight. Too bad for you *giggle*
Sekhmet on December 18, 2012 at 4:26 PM
I really think there should be a lot of people going to jail over F&F and most likely an impeachment at the very least for BO. I’m really disappointed the the media is just spiking so much award winning investigations in favor of the “cause”. I just hope that when the dust settles the media gets everything they deserve.
Frank Enstine on December 18, 2012 at 4:27 PM
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