Trent: President Obama Shows His True Gun Control Agenda

by Billy F Trent

10-11-2015

Most of the media attention on President Obama’s renewed calls for gun control has focused on the tone of his remarks, rather than on the substance of what he said. You don’t have to scratch very deep, however, to understand that what the president really wants to see in the U.S. is gun confiscation. Reiterating his support for gun control last week, Obama vowed, “I am going to talk about this, on a regular basis, and I will politicize it.…”For once, we are willing to take the president at his word.

SECOND AMENDMENT 

Clinton Says That the Second Amendment DOES NOT Protect an Individual Right to Keep and Bear Arms

A recent CNN/ORC International Poll found that 57-percent of Americans do not find Hillary Clinton “honest or trustworthy.” If there are figures in American public life with a stronger disregard for the rights of the American people, they have yet to come to our attention. At a small private fundraiser held at a home in Manhattan’s fashionable Greenwich Village neighborhood, Clinton revealed her contempt for the Second Amendment and our individual right to keep and bear arms. In audio obtained by the Washington Free Beacon, Clinton is heard telling the exclusive audience “the Supreme Court is wrong on the Second Amendment, and I am going to make that case every chance I get.”

Anti Gun Democrats Renew Call for … Well, You Know the Rest

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Anti Gun Democrats Renew Call for … Well, You Know the Rest

Surrounded by armed law enforcement officers, thirty partisan senators gathered on the Capitol steps Thursday, demanding that the public create “a groundswell of urgency” for gun control. Their sentiments parroted earlier comments by the president, who insisted that each American will “just have to, for a while be a single issue voter” for the cause.

“F” Stands for Fail: Politifact Flip-Flops to Advocate Anti-Gun Narrative

As we’ve reported before, one of the more favored, yet discredited, claims made by gun control advocates is that 40% of firearm transfers take place without a background check. Mark Kelly, of Americans for Responsible Solutions, is particularly attached to this deception, bringing it up once again in the wake of the recent shooting at Umpqua Community College in Roseburg, OR last week. Fact checkers have routinely pointed out numerous problems with the 40% statistic, with the Washington Post’s Glenn Kessler giving Obama “Three Pinocchios” when the President cited the bogus claim back in 2013. Unfortunately, it now appears that even the fact checkers need fact checkers. Last Sunday, Linda Qui, writing for Politifact, addressed the issue in response to Kelly’s appearance on CNN on the same day in which he invoked the 40% claim. She rightly points out all the reasons why the 40% claim has been repeatedly rebuked by fact checking organizations in the past, including Politifact itself.