Thread: Obama: ‘I Am Constrained By A System That Our Founders Put In Place’

Obama: ‘I Am Constrained By A System That Our Founders Put In Place’



Kyle Becker
April 4, 2013
https://twitter.com/kylenbecker

President Obama said that the Constitutional system that he took an oath to preserve, protect and defend constrains his ability to tackle gun control. He’s right — that’s how it was designed.
While Obama hedges his language about a document the Constitutional scholar once said was ‘deeply flawed,’ it is clear that he wishes he could ‘do more’ to carry out his vision of a perfect world — one where the only people with guns work for the state. From CBS News:

“I believe there doesn’t have to be a conflict in reconciling these realities,” Obama said in Denver, where he stepped up his call for background checks for all gun purchases and renewed his demand that Congress at least vote on banning assault weapons and limiting access to large-capacity ammunition magazines.

“There doesn’t have to be a conflict between protecting our citizens and protecting our Second Amendment rights,” he said.

Obama projects into the minds of his audience a ‘reality’ where citizens are relatively disarmed, there is never any murder, and the government doesn’t abuse the rights of the citizenry.

This facile portrayal ignores the historical and international record; whether we are talking about there being no worldwide correlation between gun control and total homicide rates;

theviolent crime rate going down in the U.S. 73% since the 1970s as gun ownership has gone up; or the negligible effect of the first Assault Weapons Ban in 1994.

Nonetheless, the president wants to see universal background checks, and argued that it is ‘over the top’ to claim that elected governments would ever take away guns.

You hear some of these quotes, “I need a gun to protect myself from the government.” “We can’t do background checks because the government is going to come take my guns away.”

[Pause] The government is us. These officials are elected by you. I am elected by you. I am constrained. They are constrained, by a system that our Founders put in place. It’s a government of and by and for the people. … So surely we can have a debate that’s not based on the notion that somehow your elected representatives are trying to do something to you other than potentially prevent another group of families from grieving …

We’ve got to get past some of the rhetoric that gets perpetuated that breaks down trust and is so over the top that it just shuts down all of the discussion. It’s important for all of us, when hear that kind of talk, to say “hold on a second.” If there are any folks who are out there right now who are gun owners and you’ve been hearing that the government is taking away your guns. Get the facts. We’re not proposing a gun registration system. We’re proposing background checks for criminals.

If one might provide just a brief list of counter-factuals:

• Exhibit A: National registry precedes gun confiscation in Canada.
• Exhibit B: National registry precedes gun confiscation in Britain.
• Exhibit C: National registry precedes gun confiscation in New Zealand & Australia
• Exhibit D: Russia completely disarms populace and its current homicide rate isfour times America’s.

As far as there being ‘nothing to fear’ from the government, one should say that to the some 250 million victims of murder-by-government in the twentieth century.

This is, after all, coming from the same U.S. government that promised transparency, but is widely recognized to operate in the shadows. It is the same government responsible for running guns to Mexican drug cartels under Fast & Furious, resulting in hundreds of murders (this is not seriously in dispute).

It is the same administration that could care less about the murder of an ambassador and three others in Benghazi; and meanwhile lied about the terrorist attack being caused by a video and subsequent protest. It is the same administration that asks citizens to sacrifice rights in the name of security; but hesitates and even refuses to call clear cases of terrorism what they are — like Benghazi and Fort Hood – all the while humiliating women and children at airports in the name of fighting ‘terrorism.’

One wishes that Democrats would get it straight. Is government run by the one-percenters, like President Obama and his associates, or is the government “us”? Because pure democracy is the great lie of demagogues who promise the masses everything their hearts desire — a world free from violence, a nation without real work or want — but vault themselves to the heights of power, meanwhile gutting electoral processes, the rule of law, and individual freedom.

Without the balance of fear brought about by an armed populace, the government will even more flagrantly disregard the will of the people. When the government fears the people, there is liberty; when the people fear the government, there is tyranny. That observation is as true today as it has ever been; and the arrival of just another politician promising hope and change, but delivering disaster after disaster, doesn’t change that reality.

UPDATE: The following is a video that draws on 2008 debate footage of then-candidate Barack Obama saying government can ‘constrain’ the exercise of Second Amendment rights. Remarkably, Obama employs the same ‘two realities’ language that he used in his speech in Denver this week.



http://www.ijreview.com/2013/04/4509...-put-in-place/

the Constitution hasn't slowed you down yet there slick and now you claim you are restrained by it

OBAMA.....‘I Am Constrained by a System Our Founders Put in Place’, So we're good on gun control-TRUST ME!!!!

Posted by Michael CHILDS, Admin II on April 4, 2013 at 3:10pm in Patriot Action Alerts

DENVER (TheBlaze/AP) — Ratcheting up pressure for Congress to limit access to guns, President Barack Obama said Wednesday that recent steps by Colorado to tighten its gun laws show “there doesn’t have to be a conflict” between keeping citizens safe and protecting Second Amendment rights to gun ownership.

“I believe there doesn’t have to be a conflict in reconciling these realities,” Obama said in Denver, where he stepped up his call for background checks for all gun purchases and renewed his demand that Congress at least vote on banning assault weapons and limiting access to large-capacity ammunition magazines.

Spoken like a true Stalinist propagandist. He lied about Obamacare, he lied in his entire campaign, he lied about reducing the deficit, unemployment, etc, etc, etc…..and he lied about guns.
Once again Obama proves he lacks a valid education…. he said;

“I Am Constrained by a System Our Founders Put in Place”

The correct wordage should be…

“I Am Constrained by a System Your Founders Put in Place.

What does Obama have to say about this study from 1986 by the Institute of Justice?

http://www.rkba.org/research/wright/...l.summary.html

Infringe- To encroach or trespass, to commit a breach or transgression. Look it up clown. What is so hard to understand? Which of my remaining rights will be INFRINGED upon next Capt Howdy?

Constrained ?
Constrained ?!
Constrained ?!!

This guy has ruled with unchecked executive fiat. At least Mussolini had to kill the opposition.

At least Hitler had gerbles run the media.

At least Stalin made the media an official branch of the government.

The furor el barrack has never had any constraints. What the heck is that about? This guy is writing the book on metro-sexual dictatorship. He has even convinced the American left that random assassination and killing from drones is just a “thang”. By the way, I never thought in my life I would ever have seen that. Lefties that think killing is cool. Hell Joe Cline runs around holding Obama piss bucket while Obama says “it’s good to be the king”.

The American main stream media has made the old Russian TASS service look like the free press.
Unbelievable!!!
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Actually he could be telling the truth for the first time but in a very clever way. That’s rope-a-dope for the low information voters. No we will not confiscate them. We will force you all to willingly give them up on a volunteer basis because you cannot afford million dollar liability insurance and 10,000 dollar fines to keep them. Those of you who can, no worry we will make you pay with even more taxes, which we will use to buy so many bullets your guns are useless boat anchors. We are so smart and you are so ignorant. We are strong and you are weak. You get the point hopefully. See I told you he was working on ‘other ways’. Oh wait that is right, he said he was working on ‘other ways’.

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Barry is a puppet – he does not have the brass balls to stand up for himself. Barry Soetoro aka Barry Obama aka Barrack Hussein Obama was introduced to FBI agents by Bill Ayers as an International Student him and his wife where helping out.

Simple Question on facts someone should ask Barry: 4,494 Unborn Children Murdered Each Day in the United States, 27 People are Murdered Each Day by Drunk Drivers, 211 Children where killed Last Year by Drunk Drivers, and 238 people are Raped each day in the United States – How does this compare to the 24 people killed each day by Firearms in the United States, and 6 out of the 24 are Gang related. Why, are you pushing Gun Control Barry?

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“Every day that we wait to do something about it, even more of our fellow citizens are stolen from our lives by a bullet from a gun.”

If it is citizens being killed that worries you, community organizer, then why don’t you concentrate on how to curtail the thousands of lives that are lost in vehicle accidents? Are people who are killed by guns more valuable than the thousands who are killed by other means?

Take note of this.

This idiot is roaming the countryside campaigning against guns as if guns are the most important thing in his miserable life, yet the country is 17 trillion dollars in debt and every top notch economists worth his salt is warning us that we’re about to go over a financial cliff.

He campaigned for Obamacare the same way to the exclusion of all else while he ignored everything that was vitally important.

His intent from day one was to ban guns and get his health monstrosity passed, and I can guarantee you it is because….in his distorted, incompetent mind….he perceives these policies to be helping blacks some way.

He doesn’t really care about anything else. This is Louis Farrakhan and Reverend Wright wearing a happy face.

http://patriotaction.net/forum/topic...sg_share_topic

LibertyNEWS TV - "Obama Assures, 'I am constrained'...Really?"

Added by Darla Dawald, National Director on April 4, 2013 at 9:34pm



http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature...&v=o4zsB2emPns

And if he weren't "constrained", what would the President do to our Second Amendment rights? More than Colorado or Connecticut or New York? At least he's constraining his pay...sorta. Norvell Rose has today's LNTV report. 4.4.13

http://patriotaction.net/video/video...sg_share_video

and Barack Hussein Obama is giving them some Obama Buck's

"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 he carries his banners openly. But the traitor moves among 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 traitor, he speaks in the accents familiar to his victims, and he wears their face and their garments, and 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 a city, he infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist. A murderer is less to be feared." - Cicero, 42 B.C.