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Obama's postion on gun control

Shovelhead

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Might be an "oldie", but I haven't seen anything about this in the media lately.

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,289373,00.html


Obama told churchgoers at the Vernon Park Church of God on Chicago's South Side that too many young lives are being claimed by violence and more must be done to combat the problem.

From South Central L.A. to Newark, New Jersey, there's an epidemic of violence that's sickening the soul of this nation," the Illinois senator told the crowd. "The violence is unacceptable and it's got to stop."

Nearly three dozen Chicago students have been killed this year, according to Chicago Public Schools. Obama said that figure is higher than the number of Illinois serviceman who've died in Iraq in 2007.

We need to express our collective anger through collective action," Obama said.

He said the government needs to permanently reinstate an assault weapons ban and close regulatory loopholes that protect unscrupulous gun dealers.

He also said government should support and fund more after-school programs to keep kids off the streets. But some of the burden must also be shouldered by residents who need to do more to raise and protect at-risk children, he added.

We have an entire generation of young men in our society who have become products of violence, and we are going to have to break the cycle," Obama said. "There are too many young men out there who have gone down the wrong path."

He later added, "There's a reason they go out and shoot each other, because they don't love themselves. And the reason they don't love themselves is because we are not loving them enough."
 

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Yeah, well, Obama is somewhere left of Karl Marx. His anti-gun positions have been well documented throughout the forum, however, since the SQL corruption, you will not be able to search for the threads :(
 

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deepdiver wrote:
Yeah, well, Obama is somewhere left of Karl Marx. His anti-gun positions have been well documented throughout the forum, however, since the SQL corruption, you will not be able to search for the threads :(

Then again, I don't know how good of a comparison that is. I'd tend to think that Marx and true Marxists would tend to be very pro-gun, at least for the people and not the capitalist-run government... You can't fight back against corruption and oppression with butter knives. Granted, I haven't read much of their stuff, so I don't know for sure, but it would make sense to me.

Just an example of how the gun control issue is almost entirely irrelevant to left/right, liberal/conservative, red/blue political ideology.
 

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Doug Huffman wrote:
The negatives of the three remaining two-party system candidates are well established on OCDO. Our dilemma (or is it a tri-lemma?) is what to do about it?
I'm writing in Ron Paul.
 

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deepdiver wrote:
Yeah, well, Obama is somewhere left of Karl Marx.
Deepdiver, you ever read Marx? Seriously, Obama doesn't come close, at least if you define the left/right axis purely as one of government interference in the economy. Marx founded communism, that is the collective (read: government) control of all means of production.

That said, Obama is definitely further along the axis of wishy-washiness than Marx ever was. Marx is noted for remarking (concerning the Franco-Prussian war of 187-1871) that "it is a typically Hohenzollern [Prussian royal family] idea that a people which continues to defend itself after its standing army has been destroyed is committing a crime." Seems Marx didn't disapprove of an armed citizenry resisting either an invader or a repressive government.
 

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Euromutt wrote:
deepdiver wrote:
Yeah, well, Obama is somewhere left of Karl Marx.
Deepdiver, you ever read Marx? Seriously, Obama doesn't come close, at least if you define the left/right axis purely as one of government interference in the economy. Marx founded communism, that is the collective (read: government) control of all means of production.

That said, Obama is definitely further along the axis of wishy-washiness than Marx ever was. Marx is noted for remarking (concerning the Franco-Prussian war of 187-1871) that "it is a typically Hohenzollern [Prussian royal family] idea that a people which continues to defend itself after its standing army has been destroyed is committing a crime." Seems Marx didn't disapprove of an armed citizenry resisting either an invader or a repressive government.
Yeah. We know. It was an exageration.
 

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expvideo wrote:
Euromutt wrote:
deepdiver wrote:
Yeah, well, Obama is somewhere left of Karl Marx.
Deepdiver, you ever read Marx? Seriously, Obama doesn't come close, at least if you define the left/right axis purely as one of government interference in the economy. Marx founded communism, that is the collective (read: government) control of all means of production.

That said, Obama is definitely further along the axis of wishy-washiness than Marx ever was. Marx is noted for remarking (concerning the Franco-Prussian war of 187-1871) that "it is a typically Hohenzollern [Prussian royal family] idea that a people which continues to defend itself after its standing army has been destroyed is committing a crime." Seems Marx didn't disapprove of an armed citizenry resisting either an invader or a repressive government.
Yeah. We know. It was an exageration.
Thank you, Expvideo.

Marx is typically a poster child of the far left in all matters and I made the comment colloquially rather than analytically.
 

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deepdiver wrote:
expvideo wrote:
Euromutt wrote:
deepdiver wrote:
Yeah, well, Obama is somewhere left of Karl Marx.
Deepdiver, you ever read Marx? Seriously, Obama doesn't come close, at least if you define the left/right axis purely as one of government interference in the economy. Marx founded communism, that is the collective (read: government) control of all means of production.

That said, Obama is definitely further along the axis of wishy-washiness than Marx ever was. Marx is noted for remarking (concerning the Franco-Prussian war of 187-1871) that "it is a typically Hohenzollern [Prussian royal family] idea that a people which continues to defend itself after its standing army has been destroyed is committing a crime." Seems Marx didn't disapprove of an armed citizenry resisting either an invader or a repressive government.
Yeah. We know. It was an exageration.
Thank you, Expvideo.

Marx is typically a poster child of the far left in all matters and I made the comment colloquially rather than analytically.
Exaggeration? Moreso misinformation... c'mon, around here we should know better than to engage in the left/right, Republican/Democrat drivel that engulfs the "political" conversations of the sh**ple.
 
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