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https://twitter.com/WhiteHouse/status/611570359309987840
http://blogs.wsj.com/washwire/2015/06/18/transcript-of-president-obamas-remarks-on-charleston-shootings/
Glassunion
(10,201 posts)I was about to lose hope.
mainstreetonce
(4,178 posts)And whoever gets nominated better repeat this msg to get my vote.
onehandle
(51,122 posts)ConservativeDemocrat
(2,720 posts)You'll have to give a link to that one.
- C.D. Proud Member of the Reality Based Community
Scurrilous
(38,687 posts)Wellstone ruled
(34,661 posts)Yup,how dare that Kenyan in our White House say that about our Guns.
Jefferson23
(30,099 posts)get that wrong? I don't think so.
Spitfire of ATJ
(32,723 posts)You know,....as a welcome to a new citizen.
Jefferson23
(30,099 posts)12/2013
In January, President Obama announced 23 executive actions intended to strengthen the enforcement of existing gun laws. Last month, he touted some progress, including improving the national background-check database and appointing a director of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms, a post thats been vacant for seven years.
But the administrations major effort to pass what would have been the most sweeping reform in nearly two decades new legislation that would have expanded background checks to include gun shows and online sales failed within months in the Democrat-controlled Senate.
The legislation was staunchly opposed by gun-rights groups, including a powerful newcomer in the federal arena.
The National Association for Gun Rights, or NAGR, which considers itself to the right of the powerful NRA, spent nearly $6 million in lobbying this year through September 2013 more than double what the NRA paid out and far more than any other group on either side of the debate.
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/social-issues/newtown-divided/how-the-gun-rights-lobby-won-after-newtown/
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