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Topic: Obama taps Biden to craft new
policies to curb gun violence
in wake of shooting |
Obama taps Biden to craft new
policies to curb gun violence
in wake of shooting
Fox News, by Staff
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Posted By:LittleHoodedMonk, 12/19/2012 1:04:23 PM
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| Washington - President Obama on Wednesday tapped Vice President Biden to lead an administration-wide effort looking at gun control and other measures in the wake of the Connecticut school shooting last week. "The fact that this problem is complex can no longer be an excuse for doing nothing," Obama said. The move marks the first concrete step by the White House toward crafting new firearms restrictions. The president did not announce any major policy decisions on Wednesday, but said the task force of Cabinet officials and outside organizations led by Biden would submit legislative proposals
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Comments:
You knew this was going to happen. Any non important distraction from the real problems facing Washington and US today. Notice, places Holder, "Fast and Furious I & II" to be involved.
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
whyyeseyec, 12/19/2012 1:12:21 PM (No. 9074562)
I would be okay with Joe Biden being banned from owning any type of weapon. Even a spoon. Other than that, everyone else is off limits.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
Mabeldog, 12/19/2012 1:13:01 PM (No. 9074563)
I guess
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
Mabeldog, 12/19/2012 1:15:07 PM (No. 9074565)
Sorry will Old Joe be heading to the South Side of Chicago for research on all the illegal guns that haven´t been controlled
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
Topic Thunder, 12/19/2012 1:18:49 PM (No. 9074568)
Anyone with the intellectual capacity of Joe Biden should be restricted to Hyposquirts and Nerfball guns.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
RCflyer98, 12/19/2012 1:20:51 PM (No. 9074571)
Biden? Joe Biden, really? Biden is a very cruel joke perpetrated on our country in the first place. Now this? As said in earlier comment, Joe Biden certainly will be headed for the southside of Chicago to get first had information? Yeh, right!
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
Father of Internet, 12/19/2012 1:26:21 PM (No. 9074586)
Oh great - to keep guns from shooting, Obama taps Biden to shoot off his mouth, instead...
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
tennman, 12/19/2012 1:29:32 PM (No. 9074590)
I´m sure Joe will do as swell a job with this as he did with tracking the stimulus.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
Blue-Z-Anna, 12/19/2012 1:31:36 PM (No. 9074595)
Smokin´ Joe was in charge of making sure that all the bazillions of porkulus money was properly funneled into the Obama campaign and he got that done so let´s not be to hard on his executive abilities.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
St. Pitbull, 12/19/2012 1:40:41 PM (No. 9074615)
"Obama taps Biden" I´ll bet he does even more frequently ever since Reggie Love left.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
coldborezero, 12/19/2012 1:48:23 PM (No. 9074633)
Just pass a law making it illegal to shoot people. Voila! No more gun violence. Nobody would ever dare to break a law, would they?
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
pete moss, 12/19/2012 2:06:08 PM (No. 9074657)
I wonder if there will be anybody representing Second Amendment supporters on Obama´s task force, or will they all be foaming at the mouth, gun grabber progressives? I want there to be NRA, Gun Owners of America and Jews for the Second Amendment people on this task force so that maybe we can get a word in sideways. I can see it now. Obama will pick morons like that limey scum, Piers Morgan and the raving looney Ed Shultz. Maybe he will get that spittle slinging creep Chris Matthews!
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
veritas, 12/19/2012 2:06:15 PM (No. 9074660)
1. A rational [if impatient] mind asks, "Why just violence committed with guns?"
2. A rational, more-patiently analytical mind says, "With over 24,000 ´gun-control´ laws, with laws against murder in every state and jurisdiction, and with police on-call everywhere, all having proved useless in the face of insanity driven by off-the-scale evil, more of the same is mind-numbingly stupid. And more than a little of the same will mean tyranny, not protection."
3. Acknowledged reality understands: a. there will always be the chance of such horrors, as long as humans are what we are; b. too many are reaching for a mythical perfection [a solution that´s non-existent] that is the enemy of the achievable good responses; and c. we ourselves are the best available defense [when present, trained, alert, armed, and mentally pre-prepared].
4. No one in gov´t/politics [the gap or difference between them is small, and shrinks continuously] can or will consider any part of the above.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
Northern Redman, 12/19/2012 2:21:09 PM (No. 9074703)
Since most gun violence is committed by people who could be certifiably crazy. An insane idiot like Joe Biden should be able to clearly understand what motivates these people.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
msliberty1937, 12/19/2012 3:26:09 PM (No. 9074837)
Wow, Veritas!! May I wholesale copy and send your remarks to my friends?? With attribution, of course. So succinct and so TRUE!
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
ASAvet, 12/19/2012 7:40:10 PM (No. 9075184)
No sane leader would put "brainless Joe Biden" in charge of watching grass grow (apoligies to Shoeless Joe Jackson).
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
veritas, 12/20/2012 2:27:45 AM (No. 9075538)
#14: My apologies for coming back to the thread so late. "One of those days," somewhat.
But you may absolutely circulate my post,with my appreciation for attribution being made. And invite your friends to visit the site, too [no doubt you have].
Thanks so much for your very kind take on my effort. And have a wonderful Christmas.
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