Boston Herald: White House Misfires on Guns

[Kirk Freeman]

This is from Boston, a center of gun control.

If they can see how moronic gun control proposals are, new gun legislation has a steep hill to climb.

White House misfires on control | Boston Herald

 

[Regular Guy]

Agreed--that is good news. When I read their proposals, especially about "stiffening penalties for carrying guns near schools", I can't believe the White House could really believe that could prevent shootings. I'm thinking that they know none of these proposals can ever be effective, but they throw them out there just to make it look to the voters that they're doing something.

I think a lot of the ignorant, uninformed people buy it.

 

[Spikedog]

I think a lot of the ignorant, uninformed people buy it

Exactly. What they are playing on now is the uninformed public's emotion regarding the latest shootings. Oh, don't look at the data, just try to take away the scary, dangerous guns.

 

[OneShotFOGE]

Its just feel good politics. There is no way any of these laws will prevent a massacre like Newtown, but people say, it doesnt affect and call for more government control and think they are somehow making a difference.

 

[netsecurity]

Agreed--that is good news. When I read their proposals, especially about "stiffening penalties for carrying guns near schools", I can't believe the White House could really believe that could prevent shootings. I'm thinking that they know none of these proposals can ever be effective, but they throw them out there just to make it look to the voters that they're doing something.

I think a lot of the ignorant, uninformed people buy it.

Double down on GFZ's, way to go liberal geniuses!

 

[drillsgt]

This is from Boston, a center of gun control.

If they can see how moronic gun control proposals are, new gun legislation has a steep hill to climb.

White House misfires on control | Boston Herald

Excellent article and post, and coming out of Boston no less!

 

[jgreiner]

This is from Boston, a center of gun control.

If they can see how moronic gun control proposals are, new gun legislation has a steep hill to climb.

White House misfires on control | Boston Herald

It doesn't matter what public opinion says......when we have a president that is likely to use his Executive Order power on a whim.

 

[eldirector]

That's actually a pretty decent article!

 

[IndyDave1776]

Good article with a reasonable evaluation and conclusion regarding the ineffectiveness of gun laws as tools of preventing crime. The author, however, touched on one major point without really developing it as found in this quote:

Obama’s pushing for a large-scale “punish-all-gun-owners” approach.

Did Obama not publicly make a pledge to, as he put it, "punish our enemies"?

Did Obama not declare people who hold closely their First and Second Amendment rights "bitter clingers" which appears to hold a connotation with being considered enemies?

Did Obama not declare shortly before the 2010 elections that those not on board with him philosophically would have to ride 'at the back of the bus' invoking images of segregation and 'Jim Crow' laws?

Why is it not obvious to some of these people that man and all of his entourage represent the worst menace to society that our nation has ever seen?

 

[firehawk1]

And the ideologues who insist on living in their black and white world still fail to acknowledge that elections have consequences.