Third, we should make the system faster and nimbler. We should provide an instant, accurate, comprehensive and consistent system for background checks to sellers who want to do the right thing, and make sure that criminals can't escape it.
- Obama
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http://azstarnet.com/news/opinion/mailbag/article_011e7118-8951-5206-a878-39bfbc9dc89d.htmlWhy doesn't Obama promote instant, accurate, comprehensive and consistent systems for employers? Weed out those here illegally? Those here legally who want to game the system?
Why doesn't Obama promote instant, accurate, comprehensive and consistent systems for Social Security?
Why doesn't Obama promote instant, accurate, comprehensive and consistent systems for verifying someone's identity?
Build a better border fence? Keep out the problems, send them home faster...
But one clear and terrible fact remains. A man our Army rejected as unfit for service; a man one of our colleges deemed too unstable for studies; a man apparently bent on violence, was able to walk into a store and buy a gun.
Why did this man fall through the cracks? Why didn't local enforcement do something? Complaints to the local law enforcement ignored?
But since that day, we have lost perhaps another 2,000 members of our American family to gun violence. Thousands more have been wounded. We lose the same number of young people to guns every day and a half as we did at Columbine, and every four days as we did at Virginia Tech.
Why isn't Obama targeting the communities where all this violence happens? Why target folks that don't shoot, wound, and kill others?
Why target the gun? How many get killed by cars? Rogue bus drivers? Terrorists?
Guns don't kill, people do. Gun violence is not a NATIONAL epidemic. There are communities, families that don't have a history of individuals using guns to destroy, steal, and cause mayhem.
We owe the victims of the tragedy in Tucson and the countless unheralded tragedies each year nothing less than our best efforts - to seek consensus, to prevent future bloodshed, to forge a nation worthy of our children's futures.
What about folks that threaten others with sticks at polling places?
Anyone think Washington, or Obama can do a good job? How's that border violence? How many are kidnapped by drug gangs? Human trafficking?
Why attack the good people, the symptom of the cancer that affects this nation?
Why isn't Obama going after the bad people? The drug gangs?
"As long as those whose lives are shattered by gun violence don't get to look away and move on, neither can we."I think the biggest problem is THOSE people in communities where lives are SHATTERED by gun violence. THOSE people look away and allow the problems to fester. Why aren't they cooperating with authorities? Why aren't they turning in their children when they find guns, drugs, and suspect there children of violence? Why doesn't Obama focus on communities that continue to blame others, and inanimate objects for their problems? Guns don't load themselves, they don't drive cars, or shoot people without human intelligence, or lack of same.
Gun violence is a community problem, it needs a community answer. I doubt that the answers are in peaceful communities miles, hundreds of miles, or thousands of miles away. Is the answer in the White House?
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