Brady Campaign: DOJ Meeting Shows Obama Is ‘Serious’ About Combatting Gun Violence
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Ryan J. Reilly | March 16, 2011, 3:20PM
A coalition of pro gun-control groups met with Obama administration officials at the Justice Department Tuesday to discuss ways to prevent gun violence.
The meeting at DOJ headquarters, the first in a series of meetings the administration is trying to schedule to address the issue, was led by Christopher H. Schroeder, Assistant Attorney General for DOJ’s Office of Legal Policy. Representatives of the White House, the Vice President’s office, the FBI and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) were also in attendance.
Paul Helmke, president of the Brady Campaign on Gun Violence, told TPM that the government representatives didn’t tip their cap for what direction they planned on taking to combat gun violence.
“We asked a lot of questions, and they indicated they don’t have any particular policies that they’re pushing or any particular legislation that they’re pushing, right now they’re basically out gathering pieces of information,” Helmke said.
The White House had invited the National Rifle Association (NRA) to the meeting, but NRA CEO Wayne LaPierre told the New York Times that he didn’t see a reason to “go sit down with a group of people that have spent a lifetime trying to destroy the Second Amendment in the United States.”
In a letter to President Barack Obama, LaPierre and NRA Executive Director Chris Cox wrote that for Obama “to focus a national dialogue on guns – and not criminals or mental health issues – misses the point entirely”. The said gun laws aren’t the problem.
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I can just hear the Teabaggers response-
“Gun grab, next will be our God and then our gold!”
Glenn Beck, Sarah Palin and Rush Limbaugh have brainwashed them to believe this BS!
Buckwheat <YEAH! PUN INTENDED! should perhaps READ the OATH he took but screwed up like everything else he has done. He should also read the U.S. Supreme Courts 1997 Sheriffs Mack/Printz ruling. I guess those NCAA odds are so much more important than PROTECTING THE CONSTITUTION as HIS OATH REQUIRES. As NRA Executive Director Chris Cox wrote that for Obama “to focus a national dialogue on guns – and not criminals or mental health issues – misses the point entirely”. The said gun laws aren’t the problem. Obamas a worse fucking IDIOT than the retarded Bush. They will put the gun that shoots and kills Obama in the Smithsonean.
If gun ownership required an intelligence test we wouldn’t see so many idiots with guns. 😎