Obama had some strong words for a gun-store owner who confronted him at a town-hall event in Indiana.
President Barack Obama stuck around after a PBS Newshour town hall in Elkhart, Indiana, on Wednesday to answer a few questions.
He had
some strong words for a gun-store owner who asked him why he and
Hillary Clinton, the Democratic presidential frontrunner, want to
supposedly restrict and control the use of guns for the "good guys."
"First
of all, the notion that I or Hillary or Democrats or whoever you want
to choose are hell-bent on taking away folks’ guns is just not true,"
Obama said. "And I don’t care how many times the NRA says it."
Obama
then claimed there have actually been more guns sold since he has been
president than any time in US history. And it's true: Gun sales — based
on the number of FBI criminal-background checks — increased by 65% over
the period between 2008 and 2013, according to the Annenberg Public Policy Center.
Obama continued:
I
just came from a meeting today in the Situation Room in which I got
people who we know have been on ISIL Web sites, living here in the
United States, U.S. citizens, and we’re allowed to put them on the
no-fly list when it comes to airlines, but because of the National Rifle
Association, I cannot prohibit those people from buying a gun.
This
is somebody who is a known ISIL sympathizer. And if he wants to walk in
to a gun store or a gun show right now and buy as much — as many
weapons and ammo as he can, nothing’s prohibiting him from doing that,
even though the FBI knows who that person is.
"So, sir, I just have to say, respectfully, that there is a way for us to have common sense gun laws," Obama said. "... but
the only way we’re going to do that is if we don’t have a situation in
which anything that is proposed is viewed as some tyrannical destruction
of the Second Amendment."
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