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February 2008 - a shooter who is still at large tied up and shot six women at a suburban clothing store in Chicago, leaving five of them dead and the remaining one injured.
February 2008 - a man opened fire in a lecture hall at Northern Illinois University in DeKalb, Illinois, killing five students and wounding 16 others before laying down his weapon and surrendering.
July 2008 – A former student shot three people in a computer lab at South Mountain Community College, Phoenix, Arizona.
September 2008 - a mentally ill man who was released from jail one month earlier shot eight people in Alger, Washington, leaving six of them dead and the rest two wounded.
October 2008 - Several men in a car drove up to a dormitory at the University of Central Arkansas and opened fire, killing two students and injuring a third person.
December 2008 - a man dressed in a Santa Claus suit opened fire at a family Christmas party in Covina, California, then set fire on the house and killed himself. Police later found nine people dead in the debris of the house.
March 2009 - a 28-year-old laid-off worker opened fire while driving a car through several towns in Alabama, killing 10 people.
March 2009 - a heavily-armed gunman shot dead eight people, many of them elderly and sick people, in a private-owned nursing home in North Carolina.
March 2009 - six people were shot dead in a high-grade apartment building in Santa Clara, California.
April 2009 – An 18-year-old former student followed a pizza deliveryman into his old dormitory, and shot the deliveryman, a dorm monitor, and himself at Hampton University, Virginia.
April 2009 - a man shot dead 13 people at a civic center in Binghamton, New York.
July 2009 - Six people, including one student, were shot in a drive-by shooting at a community rally on the campus of Texas Southern University, Houston.
November 2009 - U.S. army psychologist Major Nidal Hasan opened fire at a military base in Fort Hood, Texas, leaving 13 dead and 42 others wounded.
February 2010 – A professor opened fire 50 minutes into at a Biological Sciences Department faculty meeting at the University of Alabama, killing three colleagues and wounding three others
January 2011 - a gunman opened fire at a public gathering outside a grocery in Tuscon, Arizona, killing six people including a nine-year-old girl and wounding at least 12 others. Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords was severely injured with a gunshot to the head.
August 2012 - Gunman kills six people at SIkh temple in Wisconsin before being shot dead by police. Suspect is named as white supremacists Wade Michael Page.
All these mass-murders, not including all of the singular murders that have taken place, and not one single effort to enact gun-control.
It's clear as day that this President was not interested in taking on the challenge of gun control until he could get a second term. Now, he's been handed the opportunity of his Presidency. One can only wonder why this President didn't have a spine during his first term? Did he intentionally until he no longer had to answer to the electorate?
Have any liberals stopped to give this thought? Your President, the guy you love, had not one ounce of intestinal fortitude during his first term. If gun control is his modus operandi, then he should have stepped forth as a LEADER and did something about it. Afterall, Newtown is far from the first instance of mass casualties since Obama was elected.
But he didn't. The politics of this new anti-gun movement is 100% rooted in the politics of second Presidential term and the lack of accountability that comes with it.
All those dead people died without so much of a serious glance from this President, simply so he could get a second term, and you think it's brilliant?
All those dead people died without so much of a serious glance from this President, simply so he could get a second term, and you think it's brilliant?
I think that's the single most stupid thing you've written in this forum in days. And that's saying something.
You are a funny dude, since you know that not one republican and some democrats won't dare go up against the NRA. I can at least understand why the president did'nt since the NRA and it's blind followers used racism to scare the feeble minded into buying as many guns as they could out of fear. If he would have even mentioned it the gun sales would have skyrocketed, just like they did in 08' and again when he got re-elected.
Yeah, he may have no guts, but he stopped the apocalypse. What do you think the GOP would have done once they got into office with all the crazies running that party?
We are about to watch a President define his presidency over the very issue the Obama haters feared most. Gun control.
Defining his Presidency doesn't actually mean that there will be meaningful gun control. Barack Obama is not a dictator. He still has to contend with Congress, of which both sides is beholden to the gun lobby.
Wishful thinking at its very best. I wish you luck. LOL
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