President Obama’s Fury Over The Failure Of The Background Check Bill, In 7 Lines
Obama’s Fury Over The Failure Of The Background Check Bill, In 7 Lines
1) “I’m going to speak plainly and honest about what’s happened here. Because the American people are trying to figure out how can something have 90% support and yet not happen.”
2) “This legislation in fact outlawed any registry, plain and simple, right there in the text. But that didn’t matter. And, unfortunately, this pattern of spreading untruths about this legislation served a purpose. Because those lies upset an intense minority of gun owners and that in turn intimidated a lot of senators.”"
3) “Most of these senators could not offer any good reason why we wouldn’t want to make it harder for criminals and those with severe mental illnesses to buy a gun… It came down to politics. The worry that that vocal minority of gun owners would come after them in future elections. They worried that the gun lobby would spend a lot of money and paint them as anti-second amendment.”
4) “I’ve heard some say that blocking this step would be a victory. And my question is, a victory for who? A victory for what? … Victory for not doing something that 90% of Americans, 80% of Republicans, the vast majority of your constituents wanted to get done? It begs the question, who are we here to represent?
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Additional three quotes here: http://thinkprogress.org/politics/2013/04/17/1886341/obamas-fury-over-the-failure-of-the-background-check-bill-in-7-lines/
p.s. Cha has posted the video of the full Rose Garden presser down below in Comment #1
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will watch.
thanks she
One of my pet peeves! Why don't people just say "Raises the question"? 
When the Democratic Party left the filibuster as is without putting up a fight it gauranteed that little more than kickbacks to corporations would be achieved. But boy can Obama put on a show that pleases his adoring fan club after the fact.
the next decade. In the meantime, thanks to the NRA and the likes of our very own "pro gun progressives"* down in the Gungeon, more massacres like Sandy Hook and Aurora will occur, and blood will be on those hands.
But there is a day coming where sanity and human decency and civilization will prevail in these United States against the right-wing forces of hate and reaction and racism (the "RKBA" movement is largely made up of racist white guys scared of "The Other"
, just like we prevailed over slavery, segregation, fascism, and Jim Crow.
Those are the days we genuine progressives and liberals must look forward too, and they are a'coming.
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