0bama says gun debate is unnecessarily partisan

[jamil]

Obama says gun ownership ‘shouldn’t be’ a partisan issue

Former President Obama argued in a new interview that gun ownership shouldn’t be a partisan or ideological issue, amid renewed discussions of gun safety legislation in the wake of several recent ma…

thehill.com

I agree. It shouldn’t be partisan. It shouldn’t be ideological. It shouldn’t be identitarian. But I’m sure he thinks his side is the pragmatists rather than than the idealists.

 

[cobber]

Bitter clingers ring a bell?

 

[KG1]

Bitter clingers ring a bell?

*ding* *ding*

 

[DoggyDaddy]

He's right. It shouldn't be a partisan issue. It shouldn't be an issue at all. "Shall not be infringed" is understandable to anyone with even a second grade level of reading comprehension.

 

[KG1]

His idea of non-partisan is to agree with his side.

 

[flatlander]

**** that ****sucking mother****er and the goat he rode in on. Worthless P.O.S. did more to divide this country and run it down the road to ruin than anybody, Bidet is trying to out do him though for sure

 

[I Invented the Internet]

A lot of issues shouldn't be partisan, but nearly all of them are anyway. There's no going back from this.

 

[BJHay]

Obama:
“Instead of thinking about it in a very pragmatic way, we end up really arguing about identity and emotion and all kinds of stuff that does not have to do with keeping our children safe,” he added."

I agree with him. We should think about it in a pragmatic way. Here is my list of practical actions.

• Let's agree that banning guns will have no more impact on shootings then banning hereon does on addiction. Hell, we can't even keep hereon out of prisons.
• Offer Eddy Eagle or a similar program in every elementary school
• Let's agree the trauma and shock after a mass shooting makes it absolutely the wrong time to write new legislation.
• Prosecute straw purchaser and those that intentionally lie on the NICS form.
• 50% of murders go unsolved. Stop prosecuting victimless crimes to free up police to catch violent offenders.
• Keep violent offenders behind bars.
• End gun free zones
• Mass shootings are a small fraction of gun deaths. Most deaths occur in urban postal codes. Restore police departments, honor good officers and beef up coverage in high crime areas.

I thought of a few more but they're a bit too controversial to be considered immediately practical.

 

[actaeon277]

He'd be surprised, a lot on the "left" are pro gun.
Problem is, they vote blue no matter who.

 

[erasure]

He could make it less partisan by shutting up but here we are

 

[GodFearinGunTotin]

**** him.

 

[Mgderf]

**** him.

Don't forget his horse...

 

[Expat]

Don't forget his horse...

Michelle?

 

[actaeon277]

 

[joe138]

Be careful with that kind of talk. A dude in Illinois took it literally and now is in trouble.

 

[spencer rifle]

Don't forget his horse...

There’s another thread about that…

 

[Mgderf]

"All these people want to make love to me."
Joe Biden
"That's not what they mean Joe."
Barack Hussein Obama

 

[Twangbanger]

Reparations shouldn't be partisan, either. It should be roundly criticized as a dumbass idea by all sides of the political spectrum.

He's just mad because Republicans have an "identity issue" of their own, and Democrats are supposed to have a monopoly on that.

 

[NHT3]

Barry has always been my first choice to decide what is partisan and what isn't. He mistakenly believes his opinion is, or was ever relevant. My advice to BHO would be to sequester himself and his lovely wife in their palatial beach house in the Vinyard and stop trying to tell us peons what is best for us.

 

[Ziggidy]

Obama:
“Instead of thinking about it in a very pragmatic way, we end up really arguing about identity and emotion and all kinds of stuff that does not have to do with keeping our children safe,” he added."

I agree with him. We should think about it in a pragmatic way. Here is my list of practical actions.

• Let's agree that banning guns will have no more impact on shootings then banning hereon does on addiction. Hell, we can't even keep hereon out of prisons.
• Offer Eddy Eagle or a similar program in every elementary school
• Let's agree the trauma and shock after a mass shooting makes it absolutely the wrong time to write new legislation.
• Prosecute straw purchaser and those that intentionally lie on the NICS form.
• 50% of murders go unsolved. Stop prosecuting victimless crimes to free up police to catch violent offenders.
• Keep violent offenders behind bars.
• End gun free zones
• Mass shootings are a small fraction of gun deaths. Most deaths occur in urban postal codes. Restore police departments, honor good officers and beef up coverage in high crime areas.

I thought of a few more but they're a bit too controversial to be considered immediately practical.

Don’t they cram sex education down our children‘s throats claiming it will help prevent early sex pregnancies?

Let’s do the same with firearms.