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Gun Control Task Force Created
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12/19/12 12:10 PM
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bottlerocket
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This sounds fantastic President Barack Obama will on Wednesday announce the first step on gun control following the Newtown school shootings: an interagency task force, led by Vice President Joe Biden, charged with guiding the administration’s continuing response. The announcement will be the third time in five days Obama has addressed the massacre that killed 20 first-graders and six adults at the Sandy Hook Elementary School. And it will follow a call on Friday for “meaningful action” and his Sunday pledge to use the White House to “engage” Americans to prevent mass shootings.
According to a White House official, the president likely won’t make significant policy announcements but will instead explain how his administration will determine what to do next. Obama spoke Monday with Biden and three Cabinet secretaries – Attorney General Eric Holder, Education Secretary Arne Duncan and Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius — “to begin looking at ways the country can respond to the tragedy in Newtown,” the White House said. Meanwhile, Valerie Jarrett, Obama’s senior adviser, who traveled with him to Connecticut for the vigil on Sunday, spent an hour on Tuesday meeting in the White House Roosevelt Room with 10 victims of past mass shootings and Dan Gross, president of the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence. Gross said Jarrett didn’t reveal what Obama plans to do but accepted a letter to the president from the delegation of victims.
“She in no uncertain terms reaffirmed the president’s commitment to doing whatever he can … to make this the best nation that we can be and protect the safety of our kids,” Gross said. “She said that we need to look at the issue comprehensively and policy is part of it.” Though Obama has long said he favors reinstating the 1994 assault weapons ban, which expired in 2004, he has spent almost no political capital as president to enact any new restrictions on gun rights, despite mass shootings in Tucson, Ariz., Oak Creek, Wis., and Aurora, Colo., before Newtown. But the Connecticut killings seem to have struck a chord with Obama — he teared up while delivering a four-minute statement at the White House Friday, then Sunday pledged to help prevent more mass killings. And it has shifted at least three NRA-backed Democratic senators: Majority Leader Harry Reid of Nevada, Joe Manchin of West Virginia and Mark Warner and Virginia. Obama on Tuesday called Manchin, who in a 2010 campaign ad titled “Dead Aim” touted his NRA endorsement before firing his rifle at a copy of proposed cap-and-trade legislation, to discuss how to proceed. Before their White House meeting Tuesday, the Brady delegation met at the Capitol with Democrats, including House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi and, in what Gross said was a first for the group, representatives of House Republicans. “We seem to be at a unique moment in time where there seems to be significantly more momentum,” Gross said. “It clearly demonstrated that we’re having this conversation in a different way than we have in the past.”
he momentum that gun control advocates feel is on their side has come during a near-total media blackout from the NRA. The gun-rights advocacy organization went silent from the time of the Newtown massacre Friday morning until its announcement late Tuesday afternoon that it is “shocked, saddened and heartbroken by news of the horrific and senseless murders in Newtown.” The NRA announced plans for a “major news conference” on Friday, adding “the NRA is prepared to offer meaningful contributions to help make sure this never happens again.”
But while the NRA went silent on social media and did not respond to reporters’ requests for five days, its regular online news show portrayed many of the talking points the organization is likely to pursue. On Tuesday’s edition of the NRA’s nightly online news show, host Ginny Simone called the 1994 assault weapons ban “a ban we all know was a failed experiment from the start.” “What we need to do is stop making schools magnets for mass murderers like Adam Lanza,” Simone said while introducing an interview with Dave Kopel of the Independence Institute. Kopel and Simone then discussed Connecticut’s existing gun laws and how they failed to prevent Newtown, and called for more school employees to be armed. Biden, who is not expected to speak at the Wednesday announcement, piloted Obama’s middle-class task force and was in charge of stimulus spending accountability. Gross and other advocates are pushing for a legislative solution, some of which Obama already supports. White House press secretary Jay Carney on Tuesday reiterated Obama’s past support for the idea of an assault weapons ban and closing “the so-called gun show loophole.” Carney said the president could also back a prohibition on high-capacity ammunition clips like those used in the Aurora and Newtown shootings. Apart from pushing Congress to pass new gun laws — which faces many obstacles, including GOP control of the House for the next two years — Obama has a few steps he could take on his own, like a broader requirement that gun dealers to notify the government of any purchase of multiple semi-automatic weapons. Such notifications are already required in the four states that border Mexico. “We can’t tolerate this anymore,” Obama said Sunday. “These tragedies must end. And to end them, we must change. We will be told that the causes of such violence are complex, and that is true. No single law — no set of laws can eliminate evil from the world, or prevent every senseless act of violence in our society.”
http://www.politico.com/story/2012/12/barack-obama-to-announce-guns-task-force-85293.html
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Re: Gun Control Task Force Created
[Re: bottlerocket]
#3863232
12/19/12 12:37 PM
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target1911
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"A good life is never too short" My Dad
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Re: Gun Control Task Force Created
[Re: target1911]
#3863492
12/19/12 02:14 PM
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FoxTrot
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I avoid Dick's and hope they fold.
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Re: Gun Control Task Force Created
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#3863578
12/19/12 02:34 PM
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tth_40
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"Gun Control Task Force"..??
That sounds like something straight out of an early '70's "B" movie.
Never underestimate the power of stupid people in large numbers
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Re: Gun Control Task Force Created
[Re: tth_40]
#3863651
12/19/12 02:51 PM
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burgerboy68
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A ban will only make certain uneducated people feel like they are safe...
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Re: Gun Control Task Force Created
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12/19/12 03:22 PM
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levers
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Toothless. All this does is make the administration look like their doing something
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Re: Gun Control Task Force Created
[Re: levers]
#3863804
12/19/12 03:30 PM
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Re: Gun Control Task Force Created
[Re: Scary Poppins]
#3863987
12/19/12 04:17 PM
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Papajohns2012
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What happens when they create a ban in the AR and the high cap mags and some idiot comes in with the new style of rifle that makes it 'safer' and kills a bunch of kids at a daycare?
Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work. Thomas Edison.
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Re: Gun Control Task Force Created
[Re: Papajohns2012]
#3864091
12/19/12 04:41 PM
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dogcatcher
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Get rid of the menacing black weapons and make us buy these.
Last edited by dogcatcher; 12/19/12 04:44 PM. Reason: to add image
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Re: Gun Control Task Force Created
[Re: dogcatcher]
#3864622
12/19/12 07:02 PM
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I wonder if it will be as effective as his "Jobs" and "Deficit" task Forces have been?
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Re: Gun Control Task Force Created
[Re: Gravytrain]
#3865319
12/19/12 10:03 PM
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tth_40
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I dunno about y'all, but that "Hello, Kitty!" AK is speakin' to me...
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Re: Gun Control Task Force Created
[Re: Gravytrain]
#3865364
12/19/12 10:16 PM
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TheCloudX
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I wonder if it will be as effective as his "Jobs" and "Deficit" task Forces have been? I was actually relieved when I saw Biden was in on it...
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Re: Gun Control Task Force Created
[Re: TheCloudX]
#3865422
12/19/12 10:31 PM
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s8nEXlilhlpr
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Hey I'd buy either of those. Pink is just as easy to spray paint over as black!
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Re: Gun Control Task Force Created
[Re: s8nEXlilhlpr]
#3865476
12/19/12 10:48 PM
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glens
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what's scary is this task force will be stocked with gun hating POS!
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Re: Gun Control Task Force Created
[Re: Gravytrain]
#3865751
12/20/12 12:09 AM
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pigplinker
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I wonder if it will be as effective as his "Jobs" and "Deficit" task Forces have been?
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Re: Gun Control Task Force Created
[Re: pigplinker]
#3865887
12/20/12 12:47 AM
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2Redd
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To those lookin at Biden; I think we should take a deeper look at this . Biden is a yes man Holder will be the "pupet master" and that scares me with Holder bein such an honest stand up guy and all .Theres also the GUN CONTROL and TASKFORCE .maybe just me but when I hear control and taskforce I dont like it .
A body at rest tends to stay at rest. A body in motion tends to be lookin for a place to rest.
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Re: Gun Control Task Force Created
[Re: 2Redd]
#3866419
12/20/12 02:50 AM
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bottlerocket
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I could deal with a requirement that all my rifles be pink, as long as they are all select fire
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Re: Gun Control Task Force Created
[Re: bottlerocket]
#3866657
12/20/12 03:53 AM
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Blacksunshine
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How bout we all just carry a little bottle of bubbles to blow at people who kill innocent folks and kids . The bad guys I'm sure will be shaking in their shoes.... Lol
The hughes amendment is garbage! Nothing in the Constitution says "a well neutered militia"
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Re: Gun Control Task Force Created
[Re: Blacksunshine]
#3866667
12/20/12 03:54 AM
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But they better have a license and a background check and a 7 day wait to obtain them!! EPA has to tax and regulate that too.
The hughes amendment is garbage! Nothing in the Constitution says "a well neutered militia"
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Re: Gun Control Task Force Created
[Re: dogcatcher]
#3869638
12/21/12 12:55 AM
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Get rid of the menacing black weapons and make us buy these. Is that a Pink Panther.....DPMS?
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