President Obama tells ‘Meet the Press’ he wants gun control and will put his ‘full weight’ behind a ban on assault weapons and high capacity bullets
- The president vowed to rally the American people around his agenda to ban assault weapons and high capacity clips or magazines
- ‘It is not enough for us to say, ‘This is too hard so we’re not going to try,’ Obama said
President Obama pledged this morning to put his ‘full weight’ behind a legislative gun control package aimed at avoiding another Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre.
In an interview with NBC’s ‘Meet the Press,’ Obama voiced skepticism about proposals to place armed guards at schools in the aftermath of the December 14th deadly assault in Connecticut which claimed the lives of 20 first graders and six teachers.
In his boldest terms yet, he vowed to rally the American people around an agenda to limit gun violence and said he still supports increased background checks and bans on assault weapons and high capacity clips or magazines.
‘It is not enough for us to say, ‘This is too hard so we’re not going to try,’ Obama said. ‘So what I intend to do is I will call all the stakeholders together. I will meet with Republicans. I will meet with Democrats. I will talk to anybody.
‘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.’
Obama’s comments come as the schoolroom shooting has elevated the issue of gun violence to the forefront of public attention.
Six adults also died at the school. Authorities say the shooter killed himself and also killed his mother at their home.
The slayings have prompted renewed calls for greater gun controls. The National Rifle Association has resisted those efforts vociferously, arguing instead that schools should have armed guards for protection.
‘I am skeptical that the only answer is putting more guns in schools,’ Obama said.
‘And I think the vast majority of the American people are skeptical that that somehow is going to solve our problem.’
Obama said he intended to press the issue with the public.
‘Will there be resistance? Absolutely there will be resistance,’ he said.
‘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.’
The government encouraged the manufacture and importation of military firearms for the criminals to use. Using drugs and hypnosis on mental patients in a process called Orion, the CIA inculcated the desire in these people to open fire on schoolyards and thus inflame the anti-gun lobby. This plan is well under way, and so far, is working perfectly. The middle class is begging the government to do away with the second amendment.
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