Right-wing reacts badly to Obama’s gun proposals

[DonViejo]

To the surprise of no one, conservative responses to Obama's gun proposals have ranged from skeptical to vitriolic

BY JILLIAN RAYFIELD

The right-wing has offered a range of reactions to President Obama’s unveiling of a broad gun control plan – including signing 23 executive orders – and unsurprisingly, they were unenthusiastic at best.

Speaking on Mike Huckabee’s radio show, NRA President David Keene accused President Obama of “using our children to pursue an ideological anti-gun agenda,” arguing to guest host J.D. Hayworth that some of the proposals are just a “fig leaf to cover his real agenda, which is to go after guns.”

“Make no mistake about it: Overall, this is an anti-gun agenda pushed by an Administration that is a committed anti-gun administration,” Keene said.

Earlier Wednesday, the NRA’s executive Vice President called opposition to the proposals the “fight of the century,” adding: “It’s not about protecting your children. It’s not about stopping crime. It’s about banning your guns … PERIOD!” Other conservative lawmakers argued that Obama’s proposals would not have stopped the Sandy Hook shootings.

“Nothing the President is proposing would have stopped the massacre at Sandy Hook,” Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., said in a statement. “President Obama is targeting the 2nd Amendment rights of law-abiding citizens instead of seriously addressing the real underlying causes of such violence.”

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http://www.salon.com/2013/01/16/right_wing_reacts_badly_to_obamas_gun_proposals/

[Flashmann]

1. To the surprise of no one, conservatives

Remain total asshats......

[louis-t]

2. I hope they all scream themselves hoarse.

Then, I wish massive anxiety attacks on every one of them. And explosive diarrhea.

[Vietnameravet]

3. Obama has a proposal to

keep guns out of the hands of criminals and mentally sick people and, of course, they are against it..

But if he had said he wants convicted felons and people with mental problems to be let out of the jails and mental hospitals they would have a fit!

I swear, these people are crazed with their hate! It completely warps their thinking..I just cant understand such hate..

[longship]

4. NRA puts out an ad featuring Obama' daughters.

Then has the unmitigated gall to say this?

NRA President David Keene accused President Obama of “using our children to pursue an ideological anti-gun agenda"

[santamargarita]

5. Once again, I'm very pleased with our President...

and the right wing terrorist are stroking out.

[HockeyMom]

6. And I HATE the state of Florida I now live in in

Take you guns rights, and anti-women agenda, Rubio, and SHOVE them where your sun doesn't shine.

[and-justice-for-all]

7. The drones would react the same regardless...

The proposals are fine and realistic and I support them all.

[davidpdx]

8. Fanaticism at it's worst

Replace "anti-guns" with "anti-religious" and "guns" and "religion" and you'll get the same thing.

[Third Doctor]

9. They have been reacting badly

since 2008 concerning the President.

[NewJeffCT]

10. Correct me if I'm wrong here

but, does anybody that bought an assault weapon from 2004's expiration of the assault weapons ban until yesterday have to give up/return their purchase?

Do people that have already bought high capacity magazines have to give them up?

I don't think they do, but I could be wrong. I think it just applies to new purchases, right?