Thread: Six Months After Tucson Shooting, White House Readies Gun Co

Six Months After Tucson Shooting, White House Readies Gun Control Stance



Friday marks six months since the Tucson shooting which severely injured Arizona Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords and the White House is now hinting it's prepared to add its own voice to the gun control dialogue that tragedy reignited.

"As you know, the President directed the Attorney General to form working groups with key stakeholders to identify common-sense measures that would improve Americans' safety and security while fully respecting Second Amendment rights," White House Press Secretary Jay Carney said Thursday.

"That process is well underway at the Department of Justice with stakeholders on all sides working through these complex issues. And we expect to have some more specific announcements in the near future."

Carney didn't say how soon those announcements would come, nor what they might entail.

Immediately after the incident, which left six people dead and suspect Jared Lee Loughner in a federal prison hospital, eyes turned to the White House and whether the president might weigh in on the brewing Second Amendment debate.

The answer came in the form of an Arizona Daily Star Op-Ed penned by the president himself and printed on March 13.

Without taking sides in the debate, the president illustrated the consequences of the failings of the country's gun control system.

"[O]ne clear and terrible fact remains. A man our Army rejected as unfit for service; a man one of our colleges deemed too unstable for studies; a man apparently bent on violence, was able to walk into a store and buy a gun," he wrote of Loughner.

Mr. Obama laid out a centrist approach, appealing for common sense from both sides of the gun debate.

"Most gun-control advocates know that most gun owners are responsible citizens. Most gun owners know that the word 'commonsense' isn't a code word for 'confiscation,'" the president wrote.

What remains unclear is just how far out on a limb the president is willing to go on gun control. If he goes too far, the Second Amendment debate could reach great heights as the president battles for his re-election. If he doesn't go far enough, some in his base may view him as weak on gun laws.

This Spring, Carney said it's possible the review underway at the Justice Department could produce legislation. If it does, perhaps a look at the president's op-ed issued the day before Carney's remarks will offer insight as to what kind. "The National Instant Criminal Background Check System is the filter that's supposed to stop the wrong people from getting their hands on a gun. Bipartisan legislation four years ago was supposed to strengthen this system, but it hasn't been properly implemented," he noted.

Whatever direction the White House takes, the president emphasized that something has to be done, "None of us should be willing to remain passive in the face of violence or resigned to watching helplessly as another rampage unfolds on television."

Read more: http://politics.blogs.foxnews.com/2011/ ... z1RVyAYpFM

Beginning to believe that this admnistration will stoop to any level, to include supplying the guns to drug cartels "get their numbers" to justify abolishing Second Amendment gun rights to American CITIZENS.

Why would the administration want the American people disarmed and the criminals to still have weapons? The criminals won't turn theirs over, why should the rest of us?

Just ask England and Austrailia how it is working out for them.

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AUSTRALIA: Gun Confiscation Data is in
http://www.alipac.us/ftopict-242631-australia.html

BSERVABLE FACT, AFTER 12 MONTHS OF DATA:

* Australia-wide, homicides are up 3.2%

* Australia-wide, assaults are up 8.6%

* Australia-wide, armed-robberies are up 44% (yes, FORTY-FOUR PERCENT)

Gun control is certainly working out well for Chicago.

stakeholders ? There is only one 'stakeholder' and that is the American public and our rights!

W

I think that quite a few people currently in the US Justice Department eying American gun rights will soon find themselves on the inside of Federal prison walls due to their illegal gun sales and all the violence that has resulted in their actions.

W

I think that quite a few people currently in the US Justice Department eying American gun rights will soon find themselves on the inside of Federal prison walls due to their illegal gun sales and all the violence that has resulted in their actions.

W

I am looking forward to the day!!