Obama Says Gun Control Defeat Marks ‘Shameful Day For Washington’

41 Republicans voted against extending background checks to gun show and internet sales.

41 Republicans voted against extending background checks to gun show and internet sales.

Posted by: Randy | April 17, 2013, 6:55 pm 6:55 pm

That’s extremely stupid.

“A lot of Republicans had that fear, but Democrats had that fear, too. And so they caved to the pressure, and they started looking for an excuse, any excuse, to vote no.”

Oh, so that’s what happened, Barack Hussein almighty who is the all-knowing psychoanalyst; so that’s what went down.

“Do we really think that thousands of families whose lives have been shattered by gun violence don’t have a right to weigh in on this issue?”

Well, I don’t think that at all. So that is why I don’t know why you won’t put Mark and Cindy Mattioli, Darrel and Sandy Scott on Air Force One, parade them in front of the cameras, or give them the time of day.

“The gun lobby and its allies who ‘willfully lied about the bill’.”

No, Barack Hussein, the only willful lie about this bill is that there is a gun-show loophole at all. Has any of the people you’re talking to ever been to a gun-show before? Or have even seen, or touched, or shot a real gun in real life before? Or is this all abstract to you? Dealers at gun-shows selling guns run background checks all day long, because they’re required to! You think there’s such a problem with gun-sales on the street? Bust them like drug-deals are supposed to be busted; sting them! It’s that easy! It’s illegal for people barred from owning guns to own a gun, or even try to buy one! This isn’t a legislative issue; it is an enforcement issue, and as the top law enforcer of the country, Barack Hussein is falling short. PUMA!

60 senators voted against the bill. Only 45 republicans (not all voted against the bill) in the Senate…

seems several Democrats against the bill as well.

Gun control defeated, yes thank you. The Bill of Rights preserved, yes thank you. PROSECUTE OBAMA!!!

He doesn’t have a clue as to what the majority of the American people want. He lies.

He doesn’t have a clue as to what the majority of the American people want. He lies.

Posted by: clo | April 17, 2013, 7:50 pm 7:50 pm

Actually, you lie. A poll in February showed 92% to 7% in favor of background checks.

Forty one Republicans voted against extending background checks to gun show and internet sales.

This is not what the people wanted… It is what Obama wanted!! The vote is done but now he wants to cry about it. Background checks are fine and most people would agree they are needed. The problem is when you attach banning magazines and certain rifles. Had this not been added, it would have a better chance to pass.

This is not what the people wanted… It is what Obama wanted!! The vote is done but now he wants to cry about it. Background checks are fine and most people would agree they are needed. The problem is when you attach banning magazines and certain rifles.

Posted by: Ace Ventura | April 17, 2013, 8:14 pm 8:14 pm

Wrong Ace. The background check extension was voted on separately.

“The Senate voted 54-to-46 on a bipartisan proposal calling for people who want to buy firearms online and at gun shows to first pass background checks, short of the 60 needed to pass the bill. Private sales would still have been exempt.”

The ordinary voter won’t forget the Republicans voted overwhelmingly against background checks for gun shows and internet sales.

Of course, there are some (and you appear to be one) who won’t know the actual facts. Regrettable.

I cannot help but wonder how many of you actually took the time to read the bill and process what it really says. How about you do that before you form any opinion about any piece of legislation. I think it’s clear that when it comes to politics no one wants the truth. We just want to be right.

What is sad is that you would believe that poll. 92%, really?

Posted by: Triple Lindy | April 17, 2013, 8:38 pm 8:38 pm

“Despite concerns about how information on gun owners might be used, 91 percent of registered voters support universal background checks, according to a new poll released on Thursday.

“Only 8 percent of voters surveyed by Quinnipiac University’s Polling Institute March 26 to April 1 stated opposition to universal background checks . . .”

This would be a Shameful day in Washington if the people representatives did not represent them. Not a Shameful day at all. Maybe they need to clean up the Bill so that is acceptable by most the people. What I heard was Senators had not even had a chance to read the Bill. That is was a pass and read later deal like the Obamacare.

Maybe they need to clean up the Bill so that is acceptable by most the people.

Posted by: Citizen | April 17, 2013, 8:51 pm 8:51 pm

The background check extension was voted on separately.

“The Senate voted 54-to-46 on a bipartisan proposal calling for people who want to buy firearms online and at gun shows to first pass background checks, short of the 60 needed to pass the bill. Private sales would still have been exempt.”

The ordinary voter won’t forget the Republicans voted overwhelmingly against background checks for gun shows and internet sales.

The BILL did nothing to address the possibility of mentally disturbed people using stolen guns to commit crimes

Posted by: BK RIDER II | April 17, 2013, 9:11 pm 9:11 pm

You don’t even know what all was in the bill.

I hope they pass background checks for all gun transfers. It is sad that anyone can get a gun at a flea market or gun show or online from someone they don’t even know. There should be no charge for background checks too just to help people accept the law and there is no excuse but the item should not have to be background checked. I wish they would conduct firearm searches for known violent criminals on a regular basis too. I also think that not all felons should have their right to bear arms taken from them that just does not make sense. Just my opinion.

Hey oBama…. like your buddy Bill said… “put some ice on it”. A bill put together in secret and voted on in a rushed attempt to cram it down everyone’s throat deserves a quick and precise failure.

The state of California has required full background checks and a 10 day waiting period to buy guns for the last 10 years. That has made ZERO reduction in gun crimes. Proof that such laws have no impact on crime they only suppress the civil rights of legal gun owners.

Amazing how little the Senate understood what this bill said and what the American people think. It speaks of how much lobbyists like the N.R.A. really control our country. I don’t think this is going to go over well with the American public. Elections are coming up 2014, remember this! And shout out now that you are displeased with this decision today!

I really would love to know where this 90% that supported this bill came from? Cause I sure as hell wasn’t asked

Here we go with Obama and his child like verbal attacks on others that don’t agree with him. This is a perfect example why he is the most polarizing president in our history and will be regarded as our worst as well. What is he going to do when amnesty goes down in a couple of months and is unable to pay back his donors who got him elected. Cant wait to see that melt down. But the biggest loser is the main stream media like ABC who pushed for Obama’s agenda with four months of one sided propaganda trying to get it passed. I think Gallup’s latest poll summed up how Americans feel about the importance of this issue at 6%.

I really would love to know where this 90% that supported this bill came from? Cause I sure as hell wasn’t asked

Posted by: SOnny | April 17, 2013, 9:48 pm 9:48 b

The 90% supported the extension of background checks to gun shows and internet sales.

The bill was broken into different parts and voted on separately.

The ordinary voter shouldn’t forget the Republicans voted overwhelmingly against background checks for gun shows and internet sales.

The American voter won’t forget about the members of Congress that voted to infringe on their civil rights. Vote them all out of office next election!

SENATE KILLS GUN DEAL…

Bloomberg RAGES…

Feinstein Fumes…

Biden Wipes Away Tears…

Cuomo Complains…

Reid Mocks: ‘Imagined Tyranny’…

GALLUP: Only 4% of Americans Think Gun Control Important Problem…

Read that 4% Obama and you radicalized left wing media extremist

Obama will use any crisis to avoid working on the economy

NEXT UP… A photo op for Obama..in Boston….using the dead child and 2 dead adults as props
Watch ABC lick this up

GALLUP: Only 4% of Americans Think Gun Control Important Problem…

Posted by: Yep I said that | April 17, 2013, 10:25 pm 10:25 pm

Again, the inability of the Republican right to read influences their stupidity. The Gallup poll didn’t ask if gun control is an important problem. It asked exactly this, “What do you think is the MOST important problem facing this country today”.

Think about that question, if you’re capable.

“There were no coherent arguments as to why we wouldn’t do this.” – Prezzie Barry O

That’s a lie and Mr. Constitutional Scholar knows better.
How shameful of our President!

“Do we really think that thousands of families whose lives have been shattered by gun violence don’t have a right to weigh in on this issue?” – President Anti-Lincoln

No, they have the right to have their say and make their point, it’s protected in the First Amendment. The people who opposed the bill never tried to make Barry’s Strawman argument.

POSTED BY: BK RIDER II | APRIL 17, 2013, 9:57 PM 9:57 PM

The 90% supported the extension of background checks to gun shows and internet sales.
The bill was broken into different parts and voted on separately.
The ordinary voter shouldn’t forget the Republicans voted overwhelmingly against background checks for gun shows and internet sales.

He said 90% of the american people, I highly doubt these numbers are anywhere near accurate and highly padded to make the people who disagree with Obama “guilty” I hate the way he goes about all this I am ashamed to call him the President of the USA. I am glad it didn’t pass, criminals never cared about your “legislation and laws” what makes you think they will start now?

Little petulant punk oBama got his bluff called and reacted the same way that Queen Hillary did during her Benghazi testimony, and the same way Dianne Feinstein did when Ted Cruz exposed Dianne’s gross lack of Constitutional knowledge. High and mighty righteous indignation on display when you have lost your argument.

The 90% supported the extension of background checks to gun shows and internet sales.
The bill was broken into different parts and voted on separately.
The ordinary voter shouldn’t forget the Republicans voted overwhelmingly against background checks for gun shows and internet sales.

He said 90% of the american people

Posted by: SOnny | April 17, 2013, 10:43 pm 10:43 pm

Every poll showed over 80% of Americans support full background checks for all weapons. Most are closer to 90%.

Every poll showed over 80% of Americans support full background checks for all weapons. Most are closer to 90%.

Posted by: John | April 17, 2013, 11:14 pm 11:14 pm

The ordinary voter shouldn’t forget the Republicans voted overwhelmingly against background checks for gun shows and internet sales.

Today is a sad day for all American people…..To NOT have President Obama’s gun control plan (expanding backup cheks)….The plan, in my opinion, would protect all of us…And, not to want gun owners to have to have more background info on record is a disservice to all of us; especially the many innocent people who have been killed and those of us who may end up being hurt and/or killed in the future and have the crimes go unsolved….Law enforcement officials work hard to “catch the bad guys” and it is an injustice to have them not be able to solve a lot of the shootings because of the lack of background information on the guns that are saturating our streets…..If you have nothing to hide; there is no need to strike this plan down; unless you do have something to hide… We need to exercise our rights by voting these politicians out of office who really are not doing all that they possibly can to help President Obama and us remain safe and secure in our country…God Bless!!

Guns and background checks are not the problem….. mean people are!!!!

Posted by: Lisa | April 17, 2013, 11:29 pm 11:29 pm

Background checks are essential.

a recent survey (two weeks ago) of over 15,000 sworn officers found just the opposite

Posted by: Walker Evans | April 17, 2013, 11:40 pm 11:40 pm o

You discredit yourself and your argument by putting forward information from such a non-randomized fraud of a survey.

You also discredit yourself by quoting heresay about what the President said. It’s not admissible when justice is being administered because its’ not reliable.

Background checks are essential.

Posted by: Randy | April 17, 2013, 11:38 pm 11:38 pm

The Republicans overwhelmingly voted against the background check provision.

Posted by: Rindle | April 18, 2013, 12:02 am 12:02 am

Can’t wait for them to get toasted in the 2014 elections.

Posted by: Clay | April 18, 2013, 1:33 am 1:33 am

The background check provision should have been passed. It’s idiotically obvious. The President explains concisely and clearly why in the video posted with this blog.

People don’t seem to realize that we have and have had for a long time, regulations on gun sales, including background checks. It isn’t lack of a law that caused Sandy Hook. That person did not acquire his weapons by legal means. Most criminals don’t. The problem isn’t going to be solved by yet another piece of legislation that only inconveniences law-abiding citizens and not criminals. The criminals will still be able to acquire weapons. What is needed is tougher penalties for crimes of violence and for those penalties to be enforced. We are very soft on crime. Murder trials are a joke (look at this Jodi Arias melodrama that is STILL in progress). Another thing that is badly needed is an attitude adjustment for our society in general. Read the comment sections of any news item on this site for an idea of how callous and obnoxious the average person has become. The real problem is that there are more and more people out there who want to kill people and aren’t afraid to do it. That is the problem we need to address.

I’ll tell you what is shameful. For a President and members of Congress who have sworn to defend and uphold the Constitution to show such contempt for that document that is a real shame. We can not trust our own government to do what is right. They exploit children and victims of crime to push their own political agendas. That is the real shame.

How do you eat an elephant? One bite at a time. How do you eliminate FREEDOM? One small bite at a time.

Obama’s initial election then subsequent re-election is what is SHAMEFUL. This president (and I deliberately did not capitalize ‘president’ due to lack of respect for this fraud) is doing his level best to eliminate constitutionally granted freedoms in this country.

His very presence in the nation’s highest office is SHAMEFUL.

Don’t mess with 200-plus years of freedom. Give law enforcement the ‘teeth’ necessary to enforce EXISTING laws, and prosecute to the fullest, any violator of those EXISTING laws. Making new laws and not enforcing any of them (except those on your pet list) will not improve this country.

What we need to concentrate on now is back pack and pressure cooker control. We have got to register these and establish a national registry of who owns them. WE have to license ownership and limit that ownership.

I think this tragedy was kind of funny in a way

Wow, the President shows no sense of shame.
Here we have someone who acts like a sore loser.
A president who says he had 90% public support, a uniter and leader who can work across the aisle, who can’t get this very modest bill through.
Either he’s lying about the support or he’s a really bad partisan leader or both.
I vote for both.
How shameful!

Let’s see….. in 2011

323 killed by assault rifles
496 by hammers
650 by knives
12000 by drunk drivers
195,00 by medical malpractice
and 12,000,000 by abortion.

AND it was a VERY SAD day in America when they voted Obama back in – a man who has done all he can to destroy America, the constitution…… NOW who’s fuming!?

The republicans should have at least passed something that makes it a crime to shoot yourself in the foot; because they just did.

Congress (especially the republicans) is as popular as a root canal. They just lost millions of votes from the 90% of Americans who favored stricter background checks.

The interior department might as well permanently color the big states blue on the map. As more red states come into the 21st century they too will become democratic.

The republicans won’t learn that when the show their allegiance to big corporations (in this case the gun manufacturers) that the American middle class tunes them out.

This POTUS would be cracking me up if it wasn’t turning my stomach. President Obama yesterday vowed “this effort is not over” and urged Americans to voice their opposition to inaction. “I see this as just round one,” he said. “I believe we’re going to be able to get this one. Sooner or later we are going to get this right. The memories of these children demand it, and so do the American people.” REALLY Mr. President? Really??? What about then 4 Americans you had a front row seat to watch being killed in Benghazi? And the over 5K people, mostly civilians and innocent children, killed by drone attacks under your direction, and you not only approve of the 3.7K innocent babies that are killed (aborted) daily in the U S alone, but approve so strongly that you made funding it a requirement or your Healthcare Act, i.e., Obamacare. I could go on and on with your lack of integrity and proff that you speak with fork tongue, but we know, American’s see who you really are. So please, spare me your chastisement for protecting my right to bear arms. I say shame on you Mr. Obama and your entire administration for trying to take away that right granted me by my forefathers who fought to free us from the tyrannical King’s oppression and were wise enough to know that I would need that right again some day!

The republicans won’t learn that when the show their allegiance to big corporations (in this case the gun manufacturers) that the American middle class tunes them out.

Posted by: tmferretti | April 18, 2013, 9:39 am 9:39 am

One of Obama’s key advisors is Jeffrey Immelt, CEO of General Electric. GE paid no federal income taxes on $5 billion of profit in 2010. From 2004-2009, GE earned $26 billion in profits, yet received a $4.1 billion tax refund.

Obama is also surrounded by and takes advice from former Goldman Sachs executives. They have all become much wealthier since 2009 thanks to their association with Obama.

Wow, the President shows no sense of shame.
Here we have someone who acts like a sore loser.

Posted by: Noz | April 18, 2013, 9:18 am 9:18 am

He’s a Chicago thug. That’s how they roll. When he takes out his revenge, he’ll take it out on the People.

The Democrat party is bought and paid for by George Soros. I for one am glad they didn’t allow Obama and his “Barackateers” to stomp all over our second amendment rights. It was written to keep the government from crushing the people, not for hunting. Instead of making new useless laws, why don’t they actually try and ENFORCE the ones already on the books. Same goes with the border. It’s a total disgrace that our elected officials choose to ignore the oaths they put their hands on the bible to enforce. If they are to stupid to know how to build a wall, then ask the people who did it very successfully. The Chinese, you morons. That “Great Wall’ is still standing.

CLAIRE

What 2nd admendment rights? The 2nd amendment does not give you the right to own any type of weapon you want. The Supreme Court has upheld that position for 250 years.

There are are recall movements already begun to throw out these republicans. Their constituents figure that if their paid by the NRA, let them go work for them.

This was a victory for the gun manufacturers and a defeat for the Republican Party which has totally ignored the wishes of 90% of Americans., something they regularly do.

Liberals whine about saving children and want to limit guns yet the old abortion machine cranks on……hypocrites.

NRAGOP : 1 – WE THE PEOPLE : 0

This is all part of our bold plan to purge our Party of our remaining women voters.

SPARKY

I agree anyone who sells a gun to a felon or mentally ill person should be prosecuted.

Explain to me why we are even talking about background checks if they are already in place for gun shows and on the internet. Why did Manchin and Toomey waste all this time even writing a law that was already in force.

I’m a hunter and have gone to gun shows looking for cheap shotgun shells and ammo. If I remember correctly I could have bought any weapon I wanted, with no checks or license.

CBS or maybe it was ABC gave an 18 year old kid $3000 to go into a gun show and buy weapons. He walked out with 21 various weapons and was never checked.

I’m all for going after corporate freeloaders. -except the NRA

Posted by: rc | April 18, 2013, 10:48 am 10:48 am

The NRA is a nonprofit.

Democrats hold a four-point lead over Republicans on the Generic Congressional Ballot for the week ending April 14.

A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey shows that 42% of Likely U.S. Voters would vote for the Democrat in their district’s congressional race if the election were held today, while 38% would choose the Republican instead.

The NRA is mostly funded by the gun manufacturers. The NRA gets a share of every gun sell due to the “round up” rule. They are not supported by the vast majority of hunters who favor tighter background checks.

One of the positive things that has come out of this gun debate has been that the NRA was brought out of the shadows so that Americans can see what a phony organization they are and that they are just a lobbying organization for the gun manufacturers.

Now they are morphing into the NGRA (National Gun Rights organization) who are running all those misleading ads on TV, again trying to con the American people.

ONOGIL

Your granddaughter doesn’t have to worry about the politicians; we can vote them out any time we wise up.

It’s the corporation’s (such as the gun manufactures, oil companies and the health industry) she should fear. They have bought and paid for our Congress and are elected by no one.

You can’t have a free society when our Congress is controlled and paid for by people who see corporate profits as the fundamental goal instead of the will of the people.

The Republican Party is these corporation’s main lobbing group.

You can’t have a free society when our Congress is controlled and paid for by people who see corporate profits as the fundamental goal instead of the will of the people.———————— So ? I need that $$ to fund my cult .

BKRIDER

I agree, the NRA landed a knockout blow. The problem is that knockout blow landed right on the republicans.

Americans , the vast majority of whom favored stricter background checks, won’t vote for politicians who are small change in the NRA’s pocket.

The NRA does not represent hunters, they are exactly what they appear to be, a lobbying group for the gun manufacturers.

tmferretti, like the Democrats don’t have lobby groups! Move-On, Code Pink to name 2 of the most radical ones that spew the liberal party line of left wing hate. And what about the big corporate groups that lobbied for the billions of tax dollars that were lost by Obama’s green agenda programs!

tmferretti, the state of California has required background checks for ALL gun sales for more than 10 years now. It hasn’t had any impact on gun crimes, because criminals buy their guns on the streets not at gun shops or gun shows, or they just steal them!
By the way there has also been a ban on assault rifles and large magazines for many years in California, but that hasn’t done much to stop the murders on the streets of Oakland, LA or San Francisco. This Senate BILL would not have made the rest of America any safer either.

The background check provision should have been passed. It’s idiotically obvious. The President explains concisely and clearly why in the video posted with this blog.

Posted by: Rhonda | April 18, 2013, 12:37 pm 12:37 pm

Polls showed that about 90% of Americans supported the background check provision which the Republicans overwhelmingly voted against.

I look forward to seeing them pay for that in the next election.

Gun only the product of metal, cars on the roads kill more people than guns but no one stops cars why? Person kills the person but not a gun!! It is foolish prohibit guns. The killer always find another weapon hammer or chainsaw … limitation of weapons just limitation of rights for self-defense of rights in the constitution

Funny how everything is getting blamed on the Republicans. Go to Senate.gov and see who voted for and against the bill before you play the blame game.

tmferretti, I couldn’t care less if another nation enjoys disarming it’s citizens. I don’t care if Californians have brainwashed themselves into thinking they’ve lowered violent crimes rates through arresting the liberties of themselves. They can do that if they want to themselves. Let them. I don’t look to California as a model of doing things right. I see them differently, but that’s OK. I don’t have to live with it and I don’t want to. If you choose to be unarmed, good for you. Hope that works out for you. If you choose to arm yourself, fine. There are already lots of laws and government hoops to jump though in your community to do so. Follow the laws. Don’t violate them. For laws to be effective, people have to follow them. If people are willing to use guns in an illegal fashion, they will. More laws don’t solve the problem. For example, the European Commission and United Nationsreported that he UK has the second highest overall crime rate in the EU. It has a higher homicide rate than most of our western European neighbours, including France, Germany, Italy and Spain. The UK has the fifth highest robbery rate in the EU. It has the fourth highest burglary rate and the highest absolute number of burglaries in the EU, with double the number of offences than recorded in Germany and France. The analysis is based on the number of crimes per 100,000 residents. In the UK, there are 2,034 offenses per 100,000 people, way ahead of second-placed Austria with a rate of 1,677. The U.S. on the other hand, has a violence rate of 466 crimes per 100,000 residents, Canada 935, Australia 92 and South Africa 1,609. Got that? The UN reports Britain has a crime crate of 2,034 per 100k people and the US is 466 per 100k. Britain’s crime record is worse than the US even though the lie repeated is that disarming that nation supposedly made it better. It didn’t and being more strict as the UK has become will not reduce crime here either. Still if some states want to follow that British model, good luck. You’ll need it… and a maybe a gun… gun control isn’t working well in Chicago nor Detroit either, just as gun free zones don’t make zones free of guns, it just ensures to criminals that law abiding citizens won’t have them and makes sends a strong message pointing that out.

Congress doesn’t represent the American people. Members of congress represents that very small constituency that gets to vote for them, and the highest bidders. They don’t run for national election.

Target Senators Who Voted Against Gun Legislation
Forty-five of the 46 senators who voted against expanding background checks have agreed with and supported the NRA, lobbyists and citizens who have considered gun rights a defining issue. Unfortunately those of us who think that all rights should have appropriate limitations (you can’t yell fire in a movie theater, and you need a license to drive a car or write or fill a prescription for medication, and federal approval to make and sell medicine), have not made gun control a defining issue. It is for this reason that the 25 million dollars spent by the NRA were able to gather a sufficient number of senators to defeat even the least limiting bill to expand background checks even though it was supported by 90% of the population. So what are we to do now? Just as the NRA targets legislators who favor gun control, it is time we “target” those senators who have defied our wishes with false claims of a “complicated issue” or “tough vote” and even outright lies that the bill would result in a gun registry although the language of the bill precluded that or that passing the bill would raise taxes. How should we target them? Provide dollars to any candidate opposing any senators who voted against the background check bill if the candidate will pledge to vote for expanded background checks, limitations on the number of rounds in a magazine, and a ban on assault weapons. Such a pledge might be as powerful as the Norquist Anti-Tax Pledge and help defeat advocates of blocking any form of gun control.

Obama is so upset because his divisive plan failed…to have the senate pass the bill, then allow the Republican controlled House to kill it. This would allow blame to be placed on Republicans during the 2014 congressional elections. The plan was never to pass further gun control. It was a move to gain control of the House by getting an edge on the 2014 elections. But the Senate failed him.