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Obama to announce interagency guns task force
President Barack Obama will on Wednesday announce the first step on gun control following the Newtown school shootings: an interagency task force, led by Vice President Joe Biden, charged with guiding the administration’s continuing response…
According to a White House official, the president likely won’t make significant policy announcements but will instead explain how his administration will determine what to do next.
Obama spoke Monday with Biden and three Cabinet secretaries – Attorney General Eric Holder, Education Secretary Arne Duncan and Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius — “to begin looking at ways the country can respond to the tragedy in Newtown,” the White House said.
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Joe Biden, Gun Czar. What could go wrong?
MikeA on December 19, 2012 at 8:54 AM
Congrats America. You had a great run. This is the beginning of the end.
hawkdriver on December 19, 2012 at 8:55 AM
So basically the Child-King keeps ruling by fiat and bypassing Congress.
Zaggs on December 19, 2012 at 8:55 AM
Pretty sure the 08 election was the beginning. Now its just putting the pedal down.
Zaggs on December 19, 2012 at 8:56 AM
They’ll need a catchy name. Too bad “fast and furious” is already taken.
Drained Brain on December 19, 2012 at 8:57 AM
What a surprise to see Obama on the cover of yet another magazine and watching it bestow God like praise for a President that is presiding over so much failure.
Obama has blamed Bush so much for all of his failed policies and pretty much gotten away with it due to his allies in the Press….seems W should be the man on this cover.
Being a liberal means never having to be held accountable for your own failures.
Baxter Greene on December 19, 2012 at 8:58 AM
that’s a lot of fascists in one room.
bannor on December 19, 2012 at 8:59 AM
This guy secretly holds lots of stock in gun manufacturers.
cozmo on December 19, 2012 at 8:59 AM
The interagency bureaucracy will protect us! When a shooter shows up at your school don’t worry – go to mychildrenaregettingshot.gov and fill out the forms and we’ll get right back to you.
I’m curious what new and wonderful laws will be suggested because the only suggestions I’ve heard from liberals have all been tried in America and elsewhere and have all failed.
gwelf on December 19, 2012 at 9:00 AM
There’s nothing a large bureaucratic and federal top-down solution can’t solve!
gwelf on December 19, 2012 at 9:01 AM
ugh, this was not what I wanted to see this morning.. but you are right.
upinak on December 19, 2012 at 9:02 AM
Was there any doubt that Obama’s “balanced” approach to dealing with violent criminals would involve 85% gun control (e.g., disarming the law abiding citizen) and 15% increased funding down the federal rat hole?
gwelf on December 19, 2012 at 9:02 AM
Stalin, Mao, and Pol Pot are all dead so Bark was forced to pick the next best thing.
Bishop on December 19, 2012 at 9:06 AM
Our Secretary of Education has a SWAT team at their disposal but you can’t be trusted with an “assault weapon”.
gwelf on December 19, 2012 at 9:09 AM
Drunk drivers kill more people than guns each year. Shouldn’t he convene a task force on cars?
Patrick S on December 19, 2012 at 9:09 AM
The godless reprobates that worship mammon lust after a disarmed populace with the same fervor that they advocate for child sacrifice and sodomy.
tom daschle concerned on December 19, 2012 at 9:13 AM
And CAFE standards, which make cars lighter and less safe by government fiat, kill and maim hundreds of Americans each year in the name of AGW.
Obama llloooovvves CAFE standards.
visions on December 19, 2012 at 9:14 AM
Well I feel better. Bite Me and Holder being consulted over curbing gun violence. I wouldn’t be surprised at all to see mass shootings become a weekly occurrence given their track record.
Doughboy on December 19, 2012 at 9:18 AM
All that’s left is to push the idea of “hate speech” not being covered by the 1st Amendment and allowing progressives the privilege of defining it. We are nearly there anyway.
What a waste of my life! After 34 years, with my fellow servicemen and women committing ourselves to the task of ensuring that no foreign power even came close to destroying our Constitution, we allowed it to be destroyed by domestic enemies.
America voted to destroy it.
hawkdriver on December 19, 2012 at 9:25 AM
Creating an inter-agency task force is what they do when they want to banish an issue to Siberia while still looking like they want to do something about it.
tommyboy on December 19, 2012 at 9:27 AM
This is a farce. Three people with nothing to do with law enforcement, keeping in mind that Holder seems to be in charge of law non-enforcement.
Their work will be ridiculed.
BuckeyeSam on December 19, 2012 at 9:28 AM
Exactly. I’m so sorry the sacrifices of so many good people have come to naught.
Protect my community, my city, my state? Peachy. Get shot or blown up in Afcr@pistan for this wreck of a nation? Fuggedaboutit.
MelonCollie on December 19, 2012 at 9:28 AM
Obama needs to learn how to fall down face first in 3 inches of hot asphalt.
tom daschle concerned on December 19, 2012 at 9:30 AM
You can respond by rolling back the stupid policies that allowed this to happen. Allow Americans to arm themselves wherever they go.
ButterflyDragon on December 19, 2012 at 9:33 AM
Let’s start with sending your ‘task force’ to go recover all the assault weapons you provided the drug cartels. If any of them come back alive fro that, then we’ll discuss the next step.
michaelo on December 19, 2012 at 9:35 AM
This is great!
Massive overreach!
You want to get rural part time voters to vote, try to take thier guns.
You want to get Blue dog Dems to switch thier vote, try to take thier guns.
You want to mobilize every hunter, VFW member, CCW holder and military member, try to take thier gun.
Inform everyone you know about this and watch the Dems run.
Keep repeating and watch the Senate flip.
.
Pres Obama has handed us a club.
Use it.
I will be.
LincolntheHun on December 19, 2012 at 9:36 AM
I wonder how hard it is to emigrate to New Zealand? or Maybe the Mayans were correct.
the new aesthetic on December 19, 2012 at 9:36 AM
“…
the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed.”FORWARD!
Pork-Chop on December 19, 2012 at 9:38 AM
Am now totally convinced the government is the ones behind most of these mass shootings. They reek of classic brainwashing.
bgibbs1000 on December 19, 2012 at 9:39 AM
I wonder how many unregulated assault weapons are coming across our southern border? Until this border is sealed, we will never control unregulated automatic weapons!!!
Funny thos words never come out of a liberals mouth.
trs on December 19, 2012 at 9:39 AM
Committee is formed, AWB is proposed, shot down for being too far reaching, committee blusters tries to pass some half measure of banning “1000 round drums” or something like that, then we all quiet down.
Gatsu on December 19, 2012 at 9:48 AM
Thank you 3rd party d-bags and the lazy or purist “conservatives” who sat out the election because there was no difference between candidates. I’m sure the problems of where our tax dollars are spent.. the direction that America is heading in etc, would be exactly the same if Romney were president.
Please…just go work for the other side already.
(yeah..I went there. You know why?…because it’s the truth)
Mimzey on December 19, 2012 at 9:54 AM
Yup. The commies won and there is no turning back. Welcome to Eastern Europe folks. They no not understand what hell will descend on this country. I do expect that there will be a great number of attacks from the old guard that will not go quietly into that good night. Crap. I live between a rock and a hard place. The BO jack boots and military will be targeting the red states and the red state hold outs will be targeting blue states with heavy liberal populations. MA is also very symbolic being the state where this country started. Looks like there will be no place to hide when the fecal matter hits the fan.
Frank Enstine on December 19, 2012 at 10:12 AM
Resist We Much on December 19, 2012 at 10:20 AM
Joe Biden? This issue has just gone the way of stimulus oversight.
steebo77 on December 19, 2012 at 10:20 AM
A few words of advice to the Mexicans: Man the barricades and keep your heads down!
Dusty on December 19, 2012 at 10:26 AM
This confirms that there will be no action taken on guns.
He’s setting up a committee to look into it. What does that tell you?
blatantblue on December 19, 2012 at 10:31 AM
Not the government. There are way to many morons in the government to pull it off. Why to many people looking for a head to step on to raise higher. It would have to be a dedicated group of people with the most to gain from being puppet masters in the new world order.
I do know a guy that has all kinds of circumstantial crap that ties together all the recent shooting sprees. I personally think it’s BS but you never know. A few years ago I was listening to a late night Boston talk show on the radio. They were interviewing a guy that was a rabid anti-gun loon. He said outright that what it would take to ban guns in this country was some high profile mass shootings and that some in his group were willing to do it for the cause. He also said they were looking for terminal people willing to go on a spree in exchange for making sure their families would be taken care of. Wacko? Most likely but one can never know for sure.
Frank Enstine on December 19, 2012 at 10:34 AM
It tells me they will stroke each other and the liberal media until 2014. Then they will come out like gang busters and say that they can’t do anything while the repubs hold the house and senate. Then they will steal the election and with majority rule in Congress do whatever they want.
Frank Enstine on December 19, 2012 at 10:39 AM
This is how Hitler started.
Pablo Honey on December 19, 2012 at 10:46 AM
Technically, Hitler started with riots and worked his way up to arson.
GWB on December 19, 2012 at 11:01 AM
No worries.
And they can take the single-issue, never-win-jack-cr@p SoCons with them.
MelonCollie on December 19, 2012 at 11:15 AM
Sheriff Joe to the rescue! oh wait, he reminds me more of deputy Barney..but Barney was much more likeable and had more hair
sadsushi on December 19, 2012 at 2:23 PM
“Nazism, Firearm Registration, and the Night of the Broken Glass”
Resist We Much on December 19, 2012 at 5:51 PM