In an ad, the NRA criticized the President for allowing his children to go to school with armed guards, while demanding "gun-free zones" for other children. Jay Carney responded in a statement by saying that the president's children should not be used as "pawns in a political fight." The White House Press Secretary continued his attack by calling the National Rifle Association's advertisement "repugnant and cowardly."
Ironically, the criticism that children should not be used as "pawns in a political fight," comes as Hinna Zeejah, 8, Taejah Goode, 10, Julia Stokes, 11, and Grant Fritz, 8, prominently stood behind President Obama as he signed executive orders "outlining proposals to reduce gun violence." Perhaps only children other than the Obama children should be used as "pawns in a political fight". Jay Carney should clarify that the NRA is not allowed to use children for political purposes, but the president is.
The list of the twenty-three executive orders regarding gun control by Obama can be found here.
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Comments: 26
Freaking coward...
Seriously, do you really not see the hypocrisy of bashing the NRA for using children as pawns while the prezzy used children as pawns?
He, and everyone else, knows that this is a Dog-and-Pony Show...and does nothing...NOTHING.
For Ron:
Dianne Feinstein: “If I could have gotten 51 votes in the Senate of the United States, for an outright ban, picking up [every gun]… Mr. and Mrs. America, turn ‘em all in.â€
What President Obama is doing requires leadership and strength. Gun advocates hiding behind their guns won't do a thing just get more people killed. The N.R.A. as spokesperson are nothing but figure heads for American gun manufactures the largest industries in the world with no liability for its product, and deadlier than a pack of unfiltered cigarettes.
The military uses rifles that have automatic capabilities. The lowest-level rifle assigned to American soldiers, the M-4, has two settings: semiautomatic, where you pull the trigger and it fires one bullet, and burst, where you pull the trigger and it fires a burst of three bullets. Other weapons used by the military are fully automatic, which means that as long as you pull the trigger, they keep firing.
But all such weapons are already illegal, and have been since the 1930s, unless you have a special permit from ATF. So when the Obama administration refers to “military-style†weapons, it is not talking about rifles with military capabilities. It is talking about the aesthetic qualities that make a firearm look similar to an M-4 or other military weapon, even though in fact it is merely a semiautomatic rifle–you pull the trigger, and it fires one bullet.