Watch: President Barack Obama's Announcement of Gun Control Measures

For those of you who missed the president's announcement today, take a listen. YouTube video courtesy of PBS News Hour:

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[Enough About Palin]

"Watch: President Barack Obama's Announcement of Gun Control Measures"

I'd rather watch a Mastiff take a shit.

[NeonCat]

In 3D.

[Unindicted Co-conspirator]

In my hat.

[ChrisO]

Unlike Obama, the mastiff is producing a potentially useful product.

[albo]

Looks like he's got everything he needs for the press event, the kids, the parents, etc.

But he's clearly missing one thing--a bloody, size small shirt to wave at his opponents, who obviously only want to see children die.

[Fist of Etiquette]

Those kids look indifferent to the diminishment of their liberties.

[carol]

The kids would look much cuter wearing neatly pressed brown shirts.

[nicole]

And so matchy-matchy!

[carol]

It is never to early to teach children how to group think.

[C. Anacreon]

The kids would look much cuter wearing neatly pressed brown shirts.

In the still photo of the video, the boy in the blue shirt does look like he is wearing a little brown top hat. Could that work?
"Obama's Brown Hats"

[The Immaculate Trouser]

I'm not inclined to watch shit leaving the wrong orifice, but anyone else want to take a stab at summarizing his proposals?

[LTC(ret) John]

I can sum up in one one word.

OBEY.

[LTC(ret) John]

Er, *one*

[mr simple]

Eleven?

[NoVAHockey]

no .. that's banned. 10.

[LTC(ret) John]

Ah, you did something that I saw. There.

[mr simple]

No thanks, I just ate.

[Pro Libertate]

Speech can be more dangerous than guns. The Nazis basically talked their way into power. Will he be signing any speech restrictions into executive diktat?

[Episiarch]

Soon enough, ProL, soon enough. And his supporters will cheer him on.

[$park?]

So this is how liberty dies...

[Hugh Akston]

Meesa people gonna die?

[RBS]

Goddamnit Hugh.

[Episiarch]

Hugh always goes too far. He has no sense of proportion. I think he might be autistic.

[Groovus Maximus]

No sense of proportion indeed. We in the trade call that "polymorphic". You do know that the anime Akira was a documentary about Hugh?

Hint: Hugh inspired the character of "Tetsuo".

[C. Anacreon]

Do they still have the Journal of Polymorphic Perversity?

[Hugh Akston]

Gungans no dyin' witout a fight. Wesa warriors.

[NoVAHockey]

what are you all on about? must be some movie I never saw.

[Pro Libertate]

Sounds like something Jamaican. What was that Jamaica movie Denzel Washington was in?

[Groovus Maximus]

The Might Quinn, Pro'L Dib. You now officially suck. And are a racist, too.

[Pro Libertate]

That's it!

[Fist of Etiquette]

You know who else basically talked their way into power?

[Episiarch]

Your mom?

[LTC(ret) John]

Genghis Khan?

Oh, wait, I thought you said killed their way into power. Sorry.

[Paul.]

Larry King?

[Fist of Etiquette]

The Nazis?

[Tim]

Henry Higgins?

[Contrarian P]

Bill Lumbergh?

[Bam!]

Obama?

[C. Anacreon]

Consolidated Edison?

[Lord Humungus]

reading the new gun laws, er, they look to do nothing to solve "the problem."
http://vaviper.blogspot.com/20.....ntrol.html

stuff like:

18. Provide incentives for schools to hire school resource officers.

19. Develop model emergency response plans for schools, houses of worship and institutions of higher education.

20. Release a letter to state health officials clarifying the scope of mental health services that Medicaid plans must cover.

21. Finalize regulations clarifying essential health benefits and parity requirements within ACA exchanges.

22. Commit to finalizing mental health parity regulations.

23. Launch a national dialogue led by Secretaries Sebelius and Duncan on mental health.

[Episiarch]

I told you there would be nothing with teeth. Obama will fuck his supporters once again, and they will take it as they always do. It's his one redeeming feature.

[John]

It really is. It doesn't make up for his existence. But watching his supporters have to bend over and totally admit that anything and everything is great as long as "Obama does it" has been really enjoyable.

[Pro Libertate]

Ah, little do you know that "National Dialogue" is the codename for the domestic drone program.

[John]

Obama only drone strikes you because he cares Pro.

[Pro Libertate]

Oh, I know that. Death by Disposition Matrix is really a blessing.

[John]

He makes it with love.

[Pro Libertate]

The Droney Man can.

[Rasilio]

You know, that sounds like the perfect next project for Remy

[Greg]

It might be a little too close to the traditional favourite "The S&M Man" to catch on properly. The murders are probably more graphic too.

[C. Anacreon]

"National Dialogue" is the codename for the domestic drone program.

That's why Obama said he plans on "launching" it.

[NoVAHockey]

they're hanging their hope on shaming the House into a AWB.

[Dagny T.]

It is like they have a generator for this stuff. So many ways to say so little.

[Dagny T.]

resource officers

What is that even supposed to mean? Because I am tired of thinking about this ongoing collective jerkoff session, I will instead recall how the special needs kids at my high school used to go to the "Resource Room" for homeroom or to get some extra help or whatever. So we started calling them Resource Kids, which then soon morphed into a generic insult. Another "R-word"!

[Episiarch]

Romper Room?

So how many times did you have to go to the Resource Room?

[Dagny T.]

All the time, but that's just because I was banging several of the more choice retards. 'Tard strength can be used in one's favor, you know.

"Some of these retards are extremely clever."

[nicole]

Oh Dags, I have something for you. Enjoy, I know I did!

[nicole]

That so deserved to be SFed. here.

[nicole]

In which I remember why chrome is stupid. Sorry.

[Dagny T.]

I see you are as relentless in seeking out pain as I am. One good turn deserves another, so here. It's great how he sees people gunning (derp) for one of his favorite things and throws gun rights under the bus. The naked admission that it is all projection based on what he's afraid he'd do is a nice touch too.

[nicole]

The naked admission that it is all projection based on what he's afraid he'd do is a nice touch too.

Yeah, I've been, uh, enjoying that a lot lately...

[Killazontherun]

Bipolar or self obsessed crap hole? Or, is there a difference.

[Randian]

WTF did I just read?

[nicole]

Well, that depends on which link you read

[Warty]

Oh, right, that's why I hate McSweeny's so much. I had forgotten why.

[wingnutx]

He's going to leverage their synergies to facilitate a dialog.

[Stormy Dragon]

NEED MORE VESPENE GAS

[Brett L]

The best one was #*: Hire an ATF director. Oh, really? You weren't already planning on doing that?

[Brett L]

Whoops. #8.

[Restoras]

Children as human shields. Completely repugnanat and disgusting, and not at all surprising.

[Warty]

1) Those poor children.
2) President Backpfeifengesicht.

[Groovus Maximus]

It's the Ritalin.

[iggy]

I don't know why you guys keep making fun of Obama. He's a great intellectual, haven't you heard?

Appealing to emotion at every opportunity is what intellectuals do, right?

[Paul.]

So, with magazine limit restrictions, we make it official federal policy that from now on, our precious tots are expected to engage in hand-to-hand when the gunman enters the classroom with four 7 round magazines.

Ok, kiddies, here's what a magazine change should sound like... RUSH RUSH RUSH!

[John]

Wait until you hear the magazine hit the ground and then charge him!!

[Hugh Akston]

Where else do you expect them to get the pile of corpses to stand on for the next round of ineffectual gun controls?

[Tim]

Is trotting out the kids any worse than using poor Gabbi Giffords? He's probably saving her for the State of the Union.

[Pro Libertate]

What about the slut who wants free birth control pills? Where is she now, the Senate?

[John]

On the rubber chicken circuit. It sucks when the party no longer has use for you.

[Pro Libertate]

Oh, they have a use for her.

[Randian]

Rowr!

[Paul.]

Health and Human Services.

[John]

Her and the parents of a few dead children. What do you want to bet there will be at least two sets of Newtown Parents with prime seats at the SOTUA?

[Anonymous Coward]

I eagerly await the day when the so-called "Tea Party" Republicans just stand up and walk out of the State of the Union.

[Greg]

Don't talk that way about our next President, Tim

[rts]

I haven't seen this posted yet...

Will gun control advocates put a sign on their lawn declaring their homes free of guns?

[Paul.]

Meh, no more than as a gun owner, I put a sign on my front lawn saying "Guns inside".

[rts]

Sure, but I love the cognitive dissonance. I'm willing to bet that the ones that say (something like) "I wouldn't want to put that up, it'd be like an invitation to someone with a gun" are also the ones pushing for schools to be gun-free zones, and then can't understand why the crazies go there.

[Paul.]

Don't get me wrong, I think the video was informative.

[Brett L]

"This house protected by Smith & Wesson"

[Scarcity]

My Dad has a sticker on his front door that says "The owner of this property is armed. There is nothing inside worth your life."

[Killazontherun]

Mine just says, 'here kitty, kitty.'

[Suthenboy]

Ha. My father has a sign on his door that says " Be sure and bring a bucket so you can carry your own ass out with you when you leave".

[Paul.]

After being broken into twice in six months, I started to conssider 'deterrent' signs, but I was actually conscious about putting any sign up that indicated I owned guns, or guns may be on the property-- especially when the burglars were careful to execute their crime when no one was home. So I started playing with possible wordings:

"There are no guns on the premesis, the owner carries them with him at all times and keeps a highly irregular schedule."

[mad libertarian guy]

Trespassers will be shot; survivors will be shot again

[Killazontherun]

It isn't a matter of equivalence. Unlike you, their advocacy nullifies their right of self defense. Which makes them the lowest form of life this side of lemmings.

[Paul.]

But, good video.

[Suthenboy]

What the fuck did I just see? Was that a parody or were those people serious in the start of that video?

[ChrisN]

Crisis-check
Task force-check
Kids-check
Appeals to emotion-check
Calling out and demonizing opposition while then appearing moderate to media in tow-check
List of measures as vague as most of your speeches-check
Tying in measures to Obamacare and previous shitty laws-check

Leadership-priceless.

Is anyone else up for cash for clunkers, round two, but this time they just take away the guns?

[Rasilio]

Cash for Colts
Riches for Remingtons
Greenbacks for Glocks
Franklins for Firearms
Benjamins for Berettas
Wealth for Winchesters

[NeonCat]

Rubles for Rugers?
Samoleans for Springfields?
Taxes for Tauruses?
Gelt for Galils?

[Greg]

Shekels for SIGs
Wampum for Walthers

[Red Rocks Rockin]

Sawbucks for Smith and Wessons
Moolah for Mossbergs
Hay for Henrys
Bling for Brownings

[sloopyinca]

Bob Schieffer goes complete retard and compares Obama's crusade against the NRA to taking down the Nazis.

[Anonymous Coward]

Sure Bob Schittfer-brains compares you to Osama Bin Laden, segregationists, and Nazis, but remember, we have to keep political discourse in America civil.

Gabby Giffords and the children would want it that way.

[ChrisO]

Somebody forgot to change Bob's Depends, apparently.

[ChrisN]

The only way we can extend liberty for all people is by first taking it away from them, my friends.

Then we've got the right ideas...

[Hyperion]

NO.FUCKING.WAY

I am way past the point of even being able to tolerate the sound of his voice, let alone watching the stupidity emanate from his purple lips, with those clownish jug ears... Gawd, I really despise that POS.

He may or may not be the closest potus to Lincoln on behavior, but he sure is the closest to his equal in ugly.

[sloopyinca]

You trying to tell me he's uglier than Dick Nixon?

[Hyperion]

Yep, and 10x more of a scumbag weasel.

[NoVAHockey]

he's got a 10X scope! get him!

[Hyperion]

In other news, still no blowback from Frances invasion of Mali:

Hostages

[LTC(ret) John]

That is Algeria - they have been lopping off heads and burning villages for over a decade (the Army and the rebels). Wake me when it happens in la France.

[ChrisN]

I'm thinking turn our veterans into public home health care workers with student loans, then unionize them, and then on the gov't payroll allow them to check for guns. They will also have forms to accept cash for clunkers while they do their work on national park land. Lots of diversity and gender requirements, but citizenship requirements

It will be like the TSA meets the DMV and we won't have to frack. No more killing trees cause it will all be digitized, our technocratic and political class smoothly overseeing our lives and the money supply.

No more guns, 0% unemployment, no more racism and a perfect balance with the environment. Total equality.

Get on board!

[Hyperion]

Yeah, of course, we will all just jump right onboard that train. I mean, nothing could possibly go wrong if the government ran everything.

[ChrisN]

No, really, get on board.

Now.

[Shmurphy]

Nigga this is not an OPTION.

[Zombie Jimbo]

Nice annotated summary:

http://phelps.donotremove.net/.....ve-orders/

Highlights:

1. Issue a Presidential Memorandum to require federal agencies to make relevant data available to the federal background check system.

Tell the government to follow the law.

2. Address unnecessary legal barriers, particularly relating to the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act, that may prevent states from making information available to the background check system.

Tell the regulators to stop the stupid and useless regulations.

3. Improve incentives for states to share information with the background check system.

Pay the states back for the unfunded mandates that the Feds keeps making.

4. Direct the Attorney General to review categories of individuals prohibited from having a gun to make sure dangerous people are not slipping through the cracks.

Tell the Attorney General to do his job.

5. Propose rulemaking to give law enforcement the ability to run a full background check on an individual before returning a seized gun.

Start another unfunded mandate. (See #3.)

[ant1sthenes]

No, I believe number 2 is referring to nullifying law by fiat. which should result in impeachment, if we weren't already a lite dictatorship.

[Hyperion]

Sorry, penaltax, that is all.

[ChrisN]

Or in the words of the New Yorker, the NY Times, and the legacy media:

You want to be civilized don't you? Support the President. He's the President, and fair's fair. Don't resist.

Don't you read? Don't you want to make craft beer in Brooklyn or be part of the creative economy? Red Hook is almost safe. It's gun-free and if you weren't so racist, those gangbangers would have a chance at Harvard in just 10 short years if we engineer the right policies.

Do you hate equality? Do you hate your racist hearts? Do you hate your economic excess as we careen toward planetary doom?

Do you hate the future?

Gaaarrrrgh!

[Sevo]

"Watch: President Barack Obama's Announcement of Gun Control Measures"
Sorry. No anti-nausea meds handy.

[Shmurphy]

So profoundly offended by the way he trotted out this kids to appeal to the more emotional and less rational of us.

Hey kids! Shmurphy the Clown sez: "If you were Pakistani, the only time you'd be seen next to the president would be on a big TV screen that shows you in night vision right before the drone-fired missile hits!"

[waaminn]

lol man that dude cracks me up man

http://www.anono-web.tk

[ChrisN]

I do hope this is the full power of the progressive beast.

May it slumber and unionize. May it sleep and dream of other new entitlement schemes. May the light of universalist humanistic social democracy dim in its eyes as they shut to sleep in the bosom of the democratic party.

There's a button behind its head marked "de-activate." here somewhere.

Unite, men, and push it back from whence it came.

Drive it back into Vermont, into the Bay Area, Brooklyn, and Boulder.
Drive it back into the bowels of the EPA, HUD, and many a faculty lounge.
Drive it back into dens of many a Chicago ward.

Begone foul beast!

[ChrisN]

With Joe Biden, I feel as though I could be Borked at any time.

I feel like I'm buying a used car, and Obama's the floor manager Joe's gotta go talk to.

I feel like I'm on an Amtrak, with $8.00 cheeseburgers.

I feel like I'm at an old-timey union rally up there in Scranton, and ol Joe's pounding the table with his fists again.

But with Obama, it's totally not like that:

I feel cool, because he's cool.

I feel like I'm part of a team, where I pay the taxes, and he redirects the taxes.

I feel like I can finally expiate my racial sins, and link up arms in a community outreach programs and candlelight vigils from the safety of my suburban home.

I feel like the future is just around the corner.

So reasonable. So moderate. Such a family man!

[John]

I feel like I'm buying a used car, and Obama's the floor manager Joe's gotta go talk to

Golf clap!!!

[Number 2]

I'm sorry, I missed this Obama event. Was it by chance a memorial to the 200 Afgani children killed last year by Obama's drones? Haven't they written letters asking for a change in government policy?