Obama: nation should now be “shook up enough” to pass gun control

Obama is now promising to put his “full weight” behind a “package” of gun control measures currently being crafted by a team of bureaucrats led by Joe Biden, and the president is promising to push that measure in the first year of his next term.

And for Obama, the question is not the constitutionally-recognized right to bear arms, or the constitutional guarantee that said right “shall not be infringed,” but whether or not the nation is finally “shook up enough” to ignore the Constitution and listen to leftists and statists who want to disarm the people.
The Hill reports,

President Obama on Sunday said he would make gun control a priority in his new term, pledging to put his “full weight” behind passing new restrictions on firearms in 2013.

“I’m going to be putting forward a package and I’m going to be putting my full weight behind it,” Obama said in an interview aired on NBC’s “Meet the Press.” “I’m going to be making an argument to the American people about why this is important and why we have to do everything we can to make sure that something like what happened at Sandy Hook Elementary does not happen again.” . . .

“I’d like to get it done in the first year.  I will put forward a very specific proposal based on the recommendations that Joe Biden’s task force is putting together as we speak. And so this is not something that I will be putting off.”

APNews reports the president as saying,

“I think there are a vast majority of responsible gun owners out there who recognize that we can’t have a situation in which somebody with severe psychological problems is able to get the kind of high capacity weapons that this individual in Newtown obtained and gun down our kids. And, yes, it’s going to be hard.” . .

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“The question then becomes whether we are actually shook up enough by what happened here that it does not just become another one of these routine episodes where it gets a lot of attention for a couple of weeks and then it drifts away. It certainly won’t feel like that to me. This is something that – you know, that was the worst day of my presidency. And it’s not something that I want to see repeated.”

In addition to ignoring the Constitution, the president is ignoring some key facts:

1) It was already illegal for the severely psychologically-troubled Adam Lanza to possess a firearm.

2) It was already illegal in Connecticut to sell or possess an “assault weapon.

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