Obama proposes gun measures

Published: 17 Jan 2013 at 00.57
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WASHINGTON - President Barack Obama Wednesday signed 23 executive actions to curb gun violence and demanded Congress pass an assault weapons ban, saying America cannot put off gun control measures "any longer."

Obama also called on Congress to pass deeper measures, including universal background checks for gun buyers and bans on high-capacity magazines and armour-piercing bullets, in response to the Newtown school massacre last month in which 20 small children and six adults were gunned down.

"Congress must act. Congress must act soon," Obama said, pledging to use the full weight of his office to pass new gun control measures.

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spiceman
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Discussion 23 : 19 Jan 2013 at 17.1123
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Khun Jacksprat #22, the American Revolutionary War was successful because the American settlers and the British Army both used the same type of gun (smooth bore flintlock musket). And the same tradition continues with the Bushmaster AR-15, aka, "Squirrel Gun," just in case the Red Coats want a rematch!
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Discussion 22 : 19 Jan 2013 at 09.2322
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"The second amendment wasn't meant to include assault weapons." It most certainly was. What do you think the militia carried back then, chopsticks? But firearms have changed a bit in the last 200 years. "The right of the people to keep and bear arms" doesn't specify which arms, and one hardly needs a Kalashnikov to protect one's home from intruders.
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Discussion 21 : 18 Jan 2013 at 07.4121
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Khun Abbub #20, in the last 222 years, do you think, between the supposedly violent United States of America and the supposedly more peaceful European countries, which one do you think massacred many times more innocent people? And what do you call what took place just a few years ago in the former Yugoslavia and Kosovo?
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Discussion 20 : 17 Jan 2013 at 18.1920
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CM FARANG Yes there is an obsession with guns and violence in the US. Our society is so based on force instead of other ways of dealing with things I doubt seriously even gun control will save the day.

The idea citizens were armed is outdated but, if some insist they should therefore be allowed to carry arms due to attitudes more than 200 years old, I say OK...give them all Muskets and Blunderbusses!

Create a more fair society based on less violence and less poverty.
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Discussion 19 : 17 Jan 2013 at 11.3419
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A strange addiction to being a cowboy or a gangsta in the US. The second amendment wasn't meant to include assault weapons. I always thought I felt safer in Bangkok than anywhere in the US, but now I know a lot of guys are packin' in Thailand.
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Discussion 18 : 17 Jan 2013 at 10.2018
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@Discussion 16 No, American's right to have guns is not 100 years old, it's 222 years old and part of the Bill of Rights in the American Constitution. Yes, there is a procedure to change it, but such an amendment requires a 2/3's vote in the House and Senate and must be ratified by 2/3's of the State Legislators. That includes states like Arizona, Texas and Florida where such an amendment would not have a chance of passing.
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Discussion 17 : 17 Jan 2013 at 09.2817
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"Gun industry thrives in face of ban proposal"

The above quote comes from today's CNN online money section. In the month since the Newton shooting, stocks in most gun related manufacturing businesses have risen as much as 15%. CNN pundits attribute the rise to Obama's proposed executive orders. I wonder how many people who knew the orders were coming bought "gun stocks" even though they say they are against guns?
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Discussion 16 : 17 Jan 2013 at 08.5216
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@robins: And I guess only a foolish sheep would think that a rule which was established 100 years ago is maybe not such a good rule anymore 100 years later, correct? Smart people review from time to time what they do or what others did before them. And smart people learn from mistakes and don’t make the same mistakes again and again. But that is what smart people do and I am not sure how many of them are left in America.
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Discussion 15 : 17 Jan 2013 at 08.4915
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Khun BKK-Farang #12, not too long ago, two neighbors in the US had a hotly contested argument on the 2nd Amendment, with one opposed and the other one for. The next day, the pro-2nd Amendment neighbor stick a sign in his front yard, saying "My next door neighbor (with an arrow pointing to his neighbor's house) opposes the 2nd Amendment and doesn't have a gun. But I do." The next day, his anti 2nd Amendment neighbor conceded, and demanded him to remove the sign from his front yard. The point is those who don't own guns also benefit from his neighbors who do. Got my point?
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Discussion 14 : 17 Jan 2013 at 08.3714
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Khun BKK-Farang #12, do you know why the American Founding Fathers carved "in stone," giving all (law-abiding) American citizens the constitutional Right to Bear Arms?

Aad a few days ago, after that shocking rape in India, which the Indian Police was reluctant to prosecute the 6 rapers, a bunch of Indian women protested and demanded to have their right to own and carry guns. That's what we are talking about here.
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