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I was taken back by the differences in how portals are spinning Obama's gun hate speech at the naval yard.
USA Today: President Obama said Sunday that last week's deadly shooting at the Washington Navy Yard "echoes other recent tragedies" that has devastated families across the nation.
WASHINGTON -- President Obama called Sunday for a "transformation" of the nation's gun laws, saying last week's deadly shooting at the Washington Navy Yard echoes too many other killings across the United States."Our tears are not enough," Obama said during a memorial service for the victims and their families. "Our words and our prayers are not enough. ... We are going to have to change." Gun violence in America "ought to obsess us," Obama said.
The actual speech: “It ought to be a shock to all of us, it ought to obsess us. It ought to lead to some sort of transformation… Our tears are not enough. Our words and our prayers are not enough. If we really want to honor these 12 men and women, if we really want to be a country where we can go to work and go to school and walk our streets free from senseless violence without so many lives being stolen by a bullet from a gun, then we’re going to have to change. [But] nothing happens. Alongside the anguish of these American families, alongside the accumulated outrage so many of us feel, sometimes I fear there is a creeping resignation that these tragedies are just somehow the way it is, that this is somehow the new normal. We cannot accept this. As Americans bound in grief and love, we must insist here today there is nothing normal about innocent men and women being gunned down where they work.”
So, there's some magical way to make our nation free of senseless violence? Really?
Would this be accomplished by ripping up the constitution and banning guns entirely? These "change" phrases are being used way too much. If He wants to stop the majority of crime, he only needs to stop the war on drugs. Drugs account for 70% of all crimes, and they could vaporize into the mist of history. If he wants change, he has the power to do it the right way. Fix what's broken, and enforce what works.
It's simple, except that crony politicking is always injected.
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