Obama and Your Guns (His Words from the Hofstra Debate).
Pssstt…He wants them…
“We’re a nation that believes in the Second Amendment and I believe in the Second Amendment. You know, we’ve got a long tradition of hunting and sportsmen and people who want to make sure they can protect themselves but there have been too many instances during the course of my presidency where I have had to comfort families who’ve lost somebody, most recently in Aurora. You know, just uh, a couple of uh weeks ago actually probably about a month, uh, I saw uh, a mother who I had met at the bedside of her son who had been shot in that theatre and her son had been shot in the head and we spent some time and we said a prayer and remarkably about two months later this young man and his mom showed up! And he looked unbelievable, good as new. But there were a lot of families who didn’t have that good fortune and whose sons or daughters or husbands didn’t survive so my belief is that A, we have to enforce the laws that we’ve already got, make sure that we’re keeping guns out of the hands of criminals and those who are mentally ill. We’ve done a much better job in terms of background checks but we’ve got more to do when it comes to enforcement but I also share your belief that weapons that were designed for soldiers in war theatres don’t belong on our streets and so what I’m trying to do is get a broader conversation about how do we reduce the violence generally, part of it is seeing if we can get an assault weapons ban reintroduced but part of it is also looking at other sources of the violence because frankly in my home town of Chicago there’s an awful lot of violence and they’re not using AK-47’s. They’re using cheap handguns and so what can we do to intervene to make sure that young people have opportunity that our schools are working that if there’s violence on the streets that working with faith groups and law enforcement we can catch it before it gets out of control so what I want is uh, is a comprehensive strategy part of it is seeing if we can get automatic weapons that kill folks in amazing numbers out of the hands of criminals and the mentally ill but part of it is also going deeper and seeing if we can get into these communities and making sure we catch violent impulses before they occur.”
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