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The White House signaled Thursday that President Barack Obama would not be seeking new gun control laws in the aftermath of the mass shooting at a movie theater in Aurora, Colorado. But press secretary Jay Carney said
Obama would try to find ways to work around the "stalemate" in Congress to keep firearms out of the wrong hands
http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/ticket/white-house-plays-down-prospect-gun-laws-224057070.html
Yea right. He has made his stance on the matter known when he was a Senator in Illinois. He said AKs belong in the hands of "soldiers" and not criminals. If he supported our right he would have said law-abiding citizens, not soldiers. When he said they belonged in the hands of soldiers, he means soldiers are the only ones who should have the right to possess such arms. It would be Political suicide to come out 3 months before an election and say you wanted more Gun control. But he has said it, just not where mainstream can hear. A guy in another thread said that the majority would not support our right to openly carry a Long gun, but he forgets that there are 100,000,000 confessed firearm owners. Let's add the people who live in a house with a firearm, and that number would go up significantly. We can also add to this the number of people who have recently returned to a libertarian stance, and I believe the majority would support our right to carry a Long gun just because it is a right that the government is not supposed to take away. The modern day government wants to control every aspect of our life. When Obama said we don't do anything on our own, that someone else (government) has done it for us, everyone should have opened their eyes, and a great deal of people have. Our current administration wants to turn this country into a Totalitarian Socialist state just like North Korea, and I for one will not allow that to happen. Don't take me wrong, I hated George W. Bush and H.W. just as much, and Clinton as well. Reagan was the last decent President we had, but when he had an attempt on his life 60 some days into office, he realized who was in control. The man who attempted to kill him was a close relative of a friend of George H. W. Bush, his own Vice president! Imagine that! We need to wake up as a nation and look at the big picture. We have Soros, Kissinger, Rothschild, and others coming out and saying they are in the final stages of their New World Order, and a one World government! The second Revolution is around the corner, and we need to be prepared for that! Our Founding fathers would be very dissapointed in what we have allowed to happen to the country they fought so hard to establish, and we should be ashamed of ourselves.