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Star Member DainBramaged (38,537 posts)

Republicans Freak Out and Claim Obama Is Using Zimmerman Verdict to Take Their Guns


 
Because President Obama used the word gun in his statement about the Zimmerman verdict, Republicans are freaking out and claiming that he is coming for their guns.

The idea that Obama was using Zimmerman’s acquittal to push gun control spread like a moronic virus across the right thanks to a post on Breitbart that said, “He added that Americans should “honor” the life of Trayvon Martin by committing to “stem the tide of gun violence,” and “ask ourselves if we are doing all we can to widen the circle of compassion in our communities.” In March 2012, Obama had lent his political weight to those pressing for Zimmerman’s prosecution, saying that “If I had a son, he’d look like Trayvon.” In his statement Sunday, he did not comment on calls by the NAACP and others for a Department of Justice prosecution of Zimmerman on civil rights grounds. Obama’s push for gun control laws foundered earlier this year in the Democrat-controlled Senate.”

The problem is that President Obama never mentioned gun control in his statement. What the president actually said was, “I now ask every American to respect the call for calm reflection from two parents who lost their young son. And as we do, we should ask ourselves if we’re doing all we can to widen the circle of compassion and understanding in our own communities. We should ask ourselves if we’re doing all we can to stem the tide of gun violence that claims too many lives across this country on a daily basis. We should ask ourselves, as individuals and as a society, how we can prevent future tragedies like this. As citizens, that’s a job for all of us. That’s the way to honor Trayvon Martin.”

Obama never used the words gun control. The president was asking the nation to take some time and reflect on understanding, compassion, and to ask yourself if we are doing enough to prevent gun violence. The Obama haters assumed that if the Kenyan Muslim Socialist president used the word gun in a statement, he obviously was talking about taking their guns away.

Drudge posted a link titled, “Obama: Honor Trayvon with Gun Control.” That link was picked up by everything from tea party.org to The Daily Paul. Michelle Malkin’s Twitchy is full of tweets claiming that Obama is using Trayvon Martin to push gun control.

Republicans are now freaking out because of something that Obama never said, but a cleverly worded Breitbart article suggested that he meant. By tomorrow morning, this story will be on Fox News. By tomorrow afternoon, Rush Limbaugh will be talking about how Obama is using Trayvon Martin to push gun control.

By tomorrow night, Republicans will be swearing to the Lord above that Obama said that he was taking their guns away.

There is a full blown right wing freak out underway, and it was set off by something that the president never said.

http://www.politicususa.com/2013/07/14/republicans-freak-claim-obama-immerman-verdict-guns.html
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http://www.democraticunderground.com/10023259096

Hey Dain just because he didn't say gun control does not mean that wasn't what he meant.

to ask yourself if we are doing enough to prevent gun violence.

That right there shows that he hopes to use this to convince people that we need to do more to prevent gun violence. How do libs want to prevent gun violence? By control and more laws, making it harder to get guns and all the normal bullshit the left spews.
In other words 0bama did mention gun control, he just didn't use the exact words.

jmowreader (24,336 posts)
3. They come up with a new reason every stinkin' DAY why Obama is going to take their guns away!

I can think of one very good reason why Obama needs to take their guns away: anyone who spends his every waking moment inventing new reasons why the president is supposedly going to take his guns away, is too insane to own guns.

Well every stinking day some lib tells us they want to ban guns, then after every incident the preezy and all the libs talk about even more restrictions on guns.

xfundy (2,621 posts)
5. Of course. That's their job.

They've been conditioned to get outraged about anything their masters tell them to get outraged about. Fox Noise and all the other cancervative media for morons have made a mint just by going out of their way to find, or insinuate, "news" stories calculated to keep them angry, scared, and stupid.

This keeps them from recognizing what's actually going on in the world and seeing how they are getting screwed by those they support.

You have us confused with you again. It was MSNBC and their coverage that got you whipped up into a frenzy about poor little Saint Skittles. Even when it was shown they manipulated audio you goons still believed the line they sold you hook line and sinker.

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Where's Obama's statement on this:

http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2013/07/14/17-year-old-Darryl-Green


???

I guess Darryl doesn't deserve a word from Obama. He was trying to actually do the right thing. He wasn't trying to be a thug and refused to become a gang member.

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Where's Obama's statement on this:

http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2013/07/14/17-year-old-Darryl-Green


???

I guess Darryl doesn't deserve a word from Obama. He was trying to actually do the right thing. He wasn't trying to be a thug and refused to become a gang member.

The people that did it probably would look like 0bama's proverbial son, so it is a non story.

Now if we can find out that a white Hispanic did it he may mention it.

This is ridiculous, plenty of bodies are piling up due to gang violence and never a word about it. It has become the new normal, and if you say anything about it you are labeled a racist.