Friday, January 8, 2016

Despite the Facts: The Republican Priority of Guns Above Life Beyond the Womb!


Republican politicos - 2016 presidential candidates, congressional lawmakers(???), governors, state legislators, gun lobbyists -  and FOXified Republican media pundits love to preach their pro life hypocrisy to rally  their base for votes...

...despite the fact that 90% of Americans want expanded background checks; 92% of gun owners support universal background checks, and polling shows that nearly 74% of NRA members support requiring background checks for all gun sales….

...despite the fact that 56% of domestic terrorist attacks and plots in the U.S. since 1995 - including attacks involving assault weapons - have been perpetuated by right wing extremists and not Muslims…

...despite the fact that the 2nd Amendment reads as follows: “Well-regulated militia being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms shall not be infringed”….

...despite the fact that the NRA leadership is opposed to virtually every form of gun regulation, including restrictions on owning assault weapons, retention of databases of gun purchases, background checks on purchasers at gun shows and changes in the registration of fire arms, and controls Republican governors, state legislators and congressional lawmakers by designing Republican state legislated guns everywhere laws, influencing the Republican Congress’ blockage of a Democratic sponsored bill to ban the sale of guns to terrorists, and dishes out millions on pro Republican and anti-Democrat state and congressional political campaigns….

Despite all of the above facts, FOXified Republican  media pundits and politicos persisted in their typical factually illiterate lies about President Obama's executive actions before he even presented the actions!?!?

Obama wants to take away your guns!
Obama is a tyrant!
Obama acts as if he’s a dictator!
Obama is undermining our Second Amendment rights!
It’s delusional, dangerous and unconstitutional!
And on and on and on!


Here are some of the President's executive action comments FOXified Republican media pundits and politicos, conveniently, failed to mention after he spoke: (See Factsheet and Video links below for full content.

Every single year more than 30,000 Americans have their lives cut short by guns….

I believe in the Second Amendment. It guarantees a right to bear arms. No matter how many times people try to twist my words around. But I also believe that we can find ways to reduce gun violence consistent with the Second Amendment….

Second Amendment rights are important, but there are other rights that we care about as well. And we have to be able to balance them.  Our right to worship freely and safely - that right was denied to Christians in Charleston, South Carolina, and that was denied Jews in Kansas City, and that was denied Muslims in Chapel Hill, and Sikhs in Oak Creek. They had rights, too.


Our right to peaceful assembly - that right was robbed from moviegoers in Aurora and Lafayette. Our unalienable right to life, and liberty, and the pursuit of happiness - those rights were stripped from college students in Blacksburg and Santa Barbara, and from high schoolers at Columbine, and from first-graders in Newtown - first graders - and from every family, who never imagined that their loved one would be taken from our lives by a bullet from a gun.


Here are President Obama’s gun control executive actions: 

  1. Keep guns out of the wrong hands through background checks related to conducting business from a store, at gun shows, or over the Internet.
  2. The President’s FY2017 budget will include funding for 200 new ATF agents and investigators
  3. The ATF has established an Internet Investigation Center to track illegal online firearms trafficking.
  4. The ATF is finalizing a rule to ensure that dealers who ship firearms notify law enforcement if their guns are lost or stolen in transit.
  5. The Obama Administration is encouraging every U.S. Attorney’s Office to renew domestic violence outreach efforts.
  6. The Obama Administration is proposing a new $500 million investment to increase access to mental health care.
  7. The President has directed the Department of Defense, Justice and Homeland Security to conduct or sponsor research into gun safety technology.

Compare the President's commentary and actions with the factually illiterate commentaries of Republican politicos and FOXified Republican media pundits!?!?

As a matter of fact, CNN invited the President and NRA leadership to participate in a televised gun violence Town Hall meeting with pro and anti gun control Americans which was broadcast after the President's announcement.

The NRA leadership declined the invitation while their pro gun propaganda ads and Republican politico and media spokespersons are flooding  the airways and campaign trails with factually illiterate fear mongering about take away your guns executive actions that don't even exist!   


WE can stop the Republican disregard for life beyond the womb!

Most importantly, Gotta Vote
in every election - local, national, midterm and general!
Elect individuals who value the right to life over the hunger to attain NRA ratings, gun lobby campaign dollars and political leverage to deny assault  weapon controls, deny voting rights, deny affordable health care, deny equal pay for equal work, deny increasing the minimum wage, deny jobs legislation, and deny immigration reform!
GOTTA VOTE



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and sign petitions…
(If any are closed, be happy! WE are signing!
petitions.moveon.org/sign/pro-public-referendum

petitions.moveon.org/sign/gun-control-now-1


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Petition: Gun Control—It's Time to Amend the Constitution ...

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SOURCES:

www.c-span.org/video/?...obama-remarks-gun...executive-actio...



thehill.com/.../211321-poll-most-gun-owners-support-universal-...

90 percent of Americans want expanded background checks

www.washingtonpost.com/.../90-percent-of-americans...


National Rifle Assn: Summary | OpenSecrets


thehill.com/.../294571-senate-rejects-tougher-background-check...

www.forbes.com/.../nra-winning-the-influence-battle-over-gun-co...

www.usatoday.com/story/.../politics/.../nra-gun...laws/18337...


The Right's Second Amendment Lies | Consortiumnews


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