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Still no word from POTUS. Not a white guy with a right wing agenda.
No, the Annoying one has spoken:
"We have a pattern now of mass shootings in this country that has no parallel anywhere else in the world," Obama told CBS News after the shooting, which left at least 14 dead and another 17 wounded. "There's some steps we could take, not to eliminate every one of these mass shootings, but to improve the odds that they don't happen as frequently.
"We have a no-fly list where people can't get on planes but those same people who we don't allow to fly could go into a store right now in the United States and buy a firearm and there's nothing that we can do to stop them," Obama said. "That's a law that needs to be changed."
In the wake of mass shootings, Obama has often spoken of his wish for tighter gun control. He said the country needs "common-sense gun safety laws" and stronger background checks on people buying guns.
"There are steps we can take to make Americans safer and that we should come together in a bipartisan basis at every level of government to make these (shootings) rare as opposed to normal," Obama said. "We should never think that this is something that just happens in the ordinary course of events, because it doesn't happen with the same frequency in other countries."
Right now they are cooking up this tastey tidbit:
Having overwhelmingly lost the public debate about whether the Obama administration’s Syrian refugee screening policy should be enhanced, Democrats have retreated to more comfortable rhetorical ground: demanding more gun control.

Their new secret weapon? A bill that would ban anyone whose name appears on a terror watch list from buying or possessing a firearm. The idea sounds reasonable enough until you dig into the details and realize that the proposed Democratic legislation is a shocking assault on the constitutional right to due process. What makes the proposal even worse is that the Democrats’ assault on due process isn’t necessary to accomplish what they say is their only goal: preventing “dangerous terrorists” from legally purchasing or possessing a firearm.


The new bill, which Democrats have dubbed the Denying Firearms and Explosives to Dangerous Terrorists Act of 2015, gives the U.S. attorney general the authority to “deny the sale, delivery, or transfer of a firearm or the issuance of a firearms or explosives license or permit to dangerous terrorists.”

According to several Democratic sponsors of the bill, the proposed law would allow the attorney general to deny a criminal background check clearance to any individual whose name appears on the national terror watch list. The huge problem with this expansive new power is that there are precisely zero statutory criteria for inclusion on this massive list. In fact, when statutory authority for the centralized government database was first codified into law via the Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act of 2004, Congress gave all authority for determining criteria for inclusion in the watch list to unelected, unaccountable government bureaucrats. If some faceless Beltway bureaucrat decides you might be a terrorist, then you’re a terrorist. End of story
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