President Obama Is Pissed (Oregon Shooting Press Conference)

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The Iran deal specifically requires Iran to get rid of their means of acquiring nuclear weapons and heavily monitors their activities throughout that process.

This whole "omg he's making it easy for them to get weapons!!!" narrative is factually wrong.
i think rightwingers are just dogmatic in the way they interpret the president's every move and word.
are you reacting to the meme? or the article?
which?
 
The tragedy should get much more media attention. Just like every other issue. And politicians, including the democratic candidates running for President need to be strict and clear about their stances regarding gun control going forward.

As far as i know, Bernie Sanders has not taken money from the NRA, but you'd be hard pressed to defend some of his votes in the congress which has always been saddening to me considering his near spotless record on every other issue compared to Hillary.

Hillary should definitely hit him on that during the debates, so he can really talk about that at length. Just because you are a representative of a hunting state that is rural and has virtually no gun control whatsoever, means little for national decision making if you get into the White House.
 
That it could be much worse given how many firearms are out there.



No it's not. There shouldn't be any, ultimately. My point is that it could be worse than it currently is (not that the status quo is ideal).

Tired of getting jumped here, quite frankly.

So when you say nonsense you expect us to just pray that away too?
 
the right wing is having a field day with this, blaming obama for politicizing it. what the fuck do they think they're doing?

"wait for the facts" my ass -- they don't fucking care what the facts are. its a delaying tactic, and the only answer is "we need more guns"

Using the old Rovian playbook. Turn the strengths of a person into their weakness. Obama took a bold stand and came out hard to a lot of early praise and Republicans are trying to turn it on him. It's par for the course.

Im sure they all simultaneously are talking about how this is a war on Christians and mental healthcare issue.

I wonder if they got on Trump and other candidates for their politicized statements blaming this on poor mental healthcare?
 
I'm seeing this banner ad in this thread.

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I'm sure whomever is running this ad is genuinely interested in poll results on this issue.
 
I'm glad he addressed the issue of opponents criticizing him for 'politicizing a tragedy to push reform laws' or 'that it's too soon to talk about laws, respect the victims'. Because the time for reform is when the tragedy happens (ideally the laws would already be in place before the tragedy ever had a chance of occurring), not months after the issue has occurred. Politicizing these tragedies and being an activist for reform is the only way to prevent these tragedies from reoccurring.
 
Forgive my ignorance on this story, and I haven't had a chance to watch the speech, but, was this labeled as a hate crime?

I'm way out of the loop with this one.
 
I wonder how much bullet and firearms sales will go up this weekend?

There's already an ammo shortage due to people buying it up on fears Obama's gonna send the black helicopters for their guns.

Forgive my ignorance on this story, and I haven't had a chance to watch the speech, but, was this labeled as a hate crime?

I'm way out of the loop with this one.

We don't even know why he did it yet.
 
There was an ex army guy that tried to rush the shooter and got shot 5 times.


Apparently one of the victims was able to momentarily fight back before being killed, quite possibly preventing the shooter from killing more people.

Ah OK didn't hear about that. :(

But yes I do wish they would stop naming the shooters in these cases. Even if it will get out eventually it irks me to see his face and name on TV.
 
I'm glad he addressed the issue of opponents criticizing him for 'politicizing a tragedy to push reform laws' or 'that it's too soon to talk about laws, respect the victims'. Because the time for reform is when the tragedy happens (ideally the laws would already be in place before the tragedy ever had a chance of occurring), not months after the issue has occurred. Politicizing these tragedies and being an activist for reform is the only way to prevent these tragedies from reoccurring.

Besides, "politicizing" and "not the time" critiques are nothing more than silencing tactics from people who never want the issue brought up for discussion, at any time.

It's a transparent attempt to shame Obama for being political, apparently the worst sin a politician can commit, while themselves seeming compassionate and sensitive. People need to not only get political, but call out this tactic for what it is.
 
Someone on my Facebook just posted a picture of the dude that tried to stop the gunman in Oregon, saying "If this man would have had a concealed carry - gunman down."

That's the answer, more guns!
 
Ah OK didn't hear about that. :(

But yes I do wish they would stop naming the shooters in these cases. Even if it will get out eventually it irks me to see his face and name on TV.

He's still alive, unless he died in the last hour. His doctors/family say he will make a full recovery although he has to learn to walk again.
 
What does that even mean? What hero?

The guy who tried to block a door but got shot.

The media has a checklist of things they need for a shooting at this point, and a hero is one of them. This guy was a victim as much as anyone else who got shot, but because he's a veteran and survived multiple gunshot wounds, it'll have to do.
 
This happened after Sandy Hook:

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The most recent Quinnipiac poll, taken a few days ago (before the shooting) has support at 93%. This is, of course, if respondents are directly asked about background checks. It's a start.

With such strong bipartisan support, you'd think it would get past congress right? Obama would make it his highest priority and cancel all other appointments to sign it into law too.

Sure. He put forward gun legislature in 2013 that was all shot down by congress. Should be noted that the NRA spent a record amount on congressional lobbying that particular year.

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2013/01/16/us/obama-gun-control-proposal.html

Why can't he put another legislature this year or next year? Honest question.

I wish if we got something like this again, more people would chime in. I know it was under my radar at that time and it was me being stupid. I also hope that some billionaires like Gates or Buffet would triple whatever the NRA invested to stop the law into making it a law. As big a humanitarian and as fair as they are, you'd think they would want a more sensible gun law in this country.

Didn't want to put it in the OP, but I also found this.


Totally insane gun nut responds to speech. Like "I don't even know if this thing took place" crazy. This is what we're up against.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JeD0eR3ol6c

I'm of the opinion that this guy should be in the front page of CNN, NBC, ABC, etc. Actually I think when (let's be honest, unfortunately it's a "when", not "if" and we can only hope it doesn't happen to us) another mass shooting happens, then Obama should have this guy and other crazy gun yielding maniacs speak out in favor of the current gun laws.
 
glad you find this humorous now can you answer the question?

Both. I was saying that about both.

Geeze, that one just went right over your head didn't it?

With such strong bipartisan support, you'd think it would get past congress right? Obama would make it his highest priority and cancel all other appointments to sign it into law too.

The NRA has way too much political power for that. Obama would fucking love to sign such a law, but the NRA has Congress by the balls--most of the wanting to be there.
 
This country's stupid ass sadistic fascination with owning guns and being able to buy them at convenient stores like fucking candy is beyond sickening. How many damn lives have we already lost to these gun loving terrorists? The situation will only get worse given the mental state of most politician fucks and the dumbass majority they represent.
 
This country's stupid ass sadistic fascination with owning guns and being able to buy them at convenient stores like fucking candy is beyond sickening. How many damn lives have we already lost to these gun loving terrorists? The situation will only get worse given the mental state of most politician fucks and the dumbass majority they represent.

This.

I'm seriously thinking of moving to Canada.
 
Sandy Hook gets mentionned a tad casually now

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It wasn't just a stat

WOW! I missed Sandy Hook on news/gaf and I don't know how, but I did. So I'm gonna be blunt. Considering the victims INNOCENT CHILDREN I'm seriously in disbelief that nothing reactionary was done once and for all about this gun issue. How could that event not change things?
 
That's hardly the first place to use the joke, I was laughing because you seemed not to get it.
that's where i remember it from, so i guess i still don't get it/know it (origin of it).

anyways, so back to the reason why i was asking, you think people are being silly in tying in isis's tweets about the shooting to the shooter himself?
 
WOW! I missed Sandy Hook on news/gaf and I don't know how, but I did. So I'm gonna be blunt. Considering the victims INNOCENT CHILDREN I'm seriously in disbelief that nothing reactionary was done once and for all about this gun issue. How could that event not change things?

Hey man, Obama tried. It even turned public opinion, even now a majority of the people in this country are down for some new regulations, but Congress said fuck you to everyone.

that's where i remember it from, so i guess i still don't get it/know it (origin of it).

anyways, so back to the reason why i was asking, you think people are being silly in tying in isis's tweets about the shooting to the shooter himself?

There's no proof this had anything to do with them, it's fear mongering on both sides. ISIS wants us to think they have that kind of reach and the people who published the article know that fear of ISIS will drive clicks. That article is pure clickbait.
 
Why can't he put another legislature this year or next year? Honest question.

I wish if we got something like this again, more people would chime in. I know it was under my radar at that time and it was me being stupid. I also hope that some billionaires like Gates or Buffet would triple whatever the NRA invested to stop the law into making it a law. As big a humanitarian and as fair as they are, you'd think they would want a more sensible gun law in this country.

Have you seen our congress lately? Realistically, it wouldn't pass. The best thing to do is vote for politicians that want this. That means voting in elections every year instead of every 4 years.
 
Sadly,a friend on fb posted this up.

"Mass shooting equals more gun laws the more mass shootings occur the more excuses the government has to disarm the public in my option this is all set up for their gun control agenda"

I honestly can't tell if he's trolling or not. =/
 
Hey man, Obama tried. It even turned public opinion, even now a majority of the people in this country are down for some new regulations, but Congress said fuck you to everyone.

Add the Republicans in those +20 rural districts in the bleeding heart of KS, WV, PA, WY, ND, SD, LA, MS, AR, TN, GA, AL, SD, MT, UT, ID, KY, SC, NC, NE, IA, VA, OH, IN, OK, WI, MO, CO, NM, NV
 
WOW! I missed Sandy Hook on news/gaf and I don't know how, but I did. So I'm gonna be blunt. Considering the victims INNOCENT CHILDREN I'm seriously in disbelief that nothing reactionary was done once and for all about this gun issue. How could that event not change things?

Welcome to the sad state of American politics, where an entire classroom of children can be gunned down and our Congress still refuses to do anything about it, and remain in the pockets of gun lobbies.

It is absolutely a broken system that does not value even the most innocent and vulnerable of people.
 
It was amazing to see what appeared to be a baffled president. One that literally cannot comprehend the opposing arguments to any type of gun control. There is a cartel in charge and he knew it, and was actually begging the American people to try to vote this shit out of existence. Cuz Obama knows that he is actually powerless
 
Meanwhile, Jeb Bush in South Carolina, when arguing against gun control: "stuff happens."

I'll point-out - once again - that Jeb is considered to be one of the "moderates" in this race.

But really, no difference, right?
 
Welcome to the sad state of American politics, where an entire classroom of children can be gunned down and our Congress still refuses to do anything about it, and remain in the pockets of gun lobbies.

It is absolutely a broken system that does not value even the most innocent and vulnerable of people.

It almost makes you want to stop paying taxes honestly. That's how I felt at least. We don't have a government that represents the people in America anymore.
 
The only way meaningful gun control legislation can be passed is if the Democrats control the House and have a filibuster proof Senate. Thanks to gerrymandering, the Tea Party nuts of the GOP will control the House for the foreseeable future.
 
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