The President of the United States of America has a message for you...
And in between, there have been an endless series of deadly shootings across the country, almost daily reports of victims, many of them children, in small towns and in big cities all across America, victims whose -- much of the time their only fault was being at the wrong place at the wrong time.
We can’t tolerate this anymore. These tragedies must end. And to end them, we must change.
We will be told that the causes of such violence are complex, and that is true. No single law, no set of laws can eliminate evil from the world or prevent every senseless act of violence in our society, but that can’t be an excuse for inaction. Surely we can do better than this.
If there’s even one step we can take to save another child or another parent or another town from the grief that’s visited Tucson and Aurora and Oak Creek and Newtown and communities from Columbine to Blacksburg before that, then surely we have an obligation to try.
In the coming weeks, I’ll use whatever power this office holds to engage my fellow citizens, from law enforcement, to mental health professionals, to parents and educators, in an effort aimed at preventing more tragedies like this, because what choice do we have? We can’t accept events like this as routine.
Are we really prepared to say that we’re powerless in the face of such carnage, that the politics are too hard?
Are we prepared to say that such violence visited on our children year after year after year is somehow the price of our freedom?
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Are you with the President or against the President in his desire for progressive gun control reform?
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...as he's called for in the past - will you support or oppose the efforts of President Obama?
...to end this horrible gun violence?
I'll take any new gun control measures that put a stop to the excesses of our diseased gun culture in this country.
Will you support or oppose the President if he puts forth (as expected) progressive gun control legislation?
Moreover, the President clearly states that they are going to take a hard look at this and come up with the specifics. You don't really think President Obama is going to put something up the NRA and their sycophants are going to love?
So you're supporting the obstructionist efforts of the Republicans?
Maybe he's talking about cars, knives, and baseball bats 
I thought you were at least going to try 
Black and white thinking is a sad habit to get into and a tough one to kick...
...I forgot subtlety doesn't work with you. Let me try again. Your small, shrinking tent is what is surrounded with barbed wire and requires an application fee. Seems it also requires a purity test that requires a perfect score by your measure. Little tents suck...
Filling out the 4473 is free BTW...
...afraid to charge into that gap with your buddies in GD?
You really can't help yourself Clams 
I'm going to put you on ignore now because you're really just enjoying this too much. Enjoy your stay at DU.
You really can't keep up but then you do spend most of your time whining in Meta...
Must be your new hobby.
...after about the 10th time he tried to launch a personal attack against me. I'm actually rather convinced 50% of the reason he's here is to attack me - so I've had it and he's now on ignore. That's the humane thing to do at this point. I think he came here to stalk iverglas and is now just stalking me...
