Earlier this year AnonHQ wrote about the gun rights debate as it exists in modern America: http://anonhq.com/americas-gun-rights-debate/
Recently President Obama made international headlines announcing new executive action on gun law reformation: http://anonhq.com/tearful-obama-vows-to-curb-bloodshed-outlines-new-rules-to-tighten-access-to-guns/
President Obama was recently quoted as saying: Deaths and injuries caused by gun proliferation in this country is a crisis that has reached epidemic proportions. A national crisis like this demands a national response.”
Many people do argue with this claim as an overstatement of the facts. After all obesity, tobacco, cars and even alcohol kills more Americans every year then guns. No one seems to be waging a political campaign in 2016 against any of these things: http://anonhq.com/alcohol-kills-nearly-3x-time-more-american-each-year-than-gun/
Regardless if the problem is an ‘epidemic at the forefront of America’, gun violence does remain a problem none the less. Mr. Obama’s executive action is not a conspiracy to undermine the values of the country, in fact if you have been paying attention you would know he has wanted to do something like this from day one. With a year left in his Presidency he no longer cares about the political backlash from a Republican controlled Congress. It is no real surprise then that entering his last year, the President would do something like this. Honestly, the new legislation put forth by Mr. Obama is much less severe/extreme than many of his opponents feared it would be or are making it out to be.
In testament to this the large majority of Americans citizens actual support Mr. Obama on this particular issue. In fact according to a recent poll conducted by CNN, 67% of Americans said they favor the Presidents executive action on gun reformation: http://edition.cnn.com/2016/01/07/politics/obama-guns-executive-action-poll-results/index.html
Last year 89% of American polled said they support enacting extending background checks on guns: http://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/majority-americans-support-background-checks-poll-says
Even 74% of NRA members, a traditional conservative right wing group, also support extended Federal background checks: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2013/01/31/nra-leadership-members-divide-on-universal-background-checks/
So as you can see the issue is not the legal aspect of making guns harder to obtain, it is over the fundamental right of Americans to own guns in the first place. The founders included it as the second amendment for a reason. One news organization worded it nicely when they said the
“American people continues to be more evenly divided in fundamental attitudes about whether it is more important to control gun ownership or to protect the right of Americans to own guns. Currently, 50% say it is more important to control gun ownership, while 47% say it is more important to protect the right of Americans to own guns.”
This is exactly why so many people are standing with the President on this issue in 2016. The executive action does not undermine the underlying principles of the 2nd Amendment, it simply gives more resources to the government to make informed choices on who should and who should not be able to posses guns. Hopefully saving hundred or thousands of lives as a result.
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Fuck off my guns
on the issue of gun control, if you look at it closely you’ll see that the places with the highest gun control measures serve only one thing to leave the innocent unprotected from those who wish to do harm.just look at Paris,France after both attacks the elites had protection while the average person is left to the will of those intent on murder.
Is this a joke and an hoax? why don’t you question the sources?
I think people should know they have right and should know that they need to defend themselves from malfactors as governments and corrupt police and they should have guns because then there is the question why governments can have the right to defend themselves and why the people cannot? I think every side should be equivalent to the other side… because, if not there is only corruption and abusive manipulation power… eye for an eye… tooth for a tooth… Do not let people lose means to defend themselves against evil forces… so why, and as there are people in governments, can have guns? of course people think, ok it is not good to deal with guns because then we humans will live in danger and fear… but there are worse fears… like ditch guns and being controlled and all their lives losing meaning… can’t the americans just see that… or they are all brainwashed… or anonymous is mostly american… or anonymous are accepting everyones ideologies in their website and because of charity… excuse me… survival is not a toy and not a charity… you should defend your ideology and perspective over anything that happens in your website or do not accept news that make people defenseless… And to the rest of the world if you are strong enough, save the american people, and if you are weak, do not repeat, copy or imitate them… because it’s the american style, dream, media and fashion that are trying to deceive you… remember the american dream??? do you know what that means??? it means that or you control your dreams or someone will control your dreams or you all are going through what seems to be easy… money, power and sex i think, then the main stream media did the rest… i’m focused on apparition things… -^ … ^-
Interview with 1027 adults…..
I’m sure there are more adults in the US than that.
An article using “Independent” sources for these claims..CNN? MSNBC? They are no more independant then Fox that you are telling everyone to ignore. Figures never lie…and liars can figure. THEY ALL LIE to fit there agendas, try again with something a bit more credible next time then MSM.
I also enjoy the irony that I need to leave my email addy to post a comment here. I am with much that Anon stands for…I just think sometimes people don’t dig quite deep enough before making statements.
I used to really enjoy this site, lately it has been just another speaking ground for the liberal agenda. So much for ANON being on the side of the people. Preach about your 1st amendment rights all you guys want, but you can’t defend the first without the second. Enjoy being disarmed, and your freedoms being stripped from you.
The best part is looking at the comments.. then you see how the general public really feels. ANON get back to the people, stop trying to get press. Sourcing MSNBC and the Washington post is basically funding the Clinton campaign… Come on guys I thought you were all smarter then this.
Gun control isn’t a good thing at all. If they do this they will acomplish something on the agenda. The Toronto Protocols from 1960s said that the last thing to do to control the population of US is to make a gun control law. This was all planed from 1960. Like imigrants and most things that happen atm.
No we DON’T support Obama’s gun control actions. If we did he wouldn’t need to use executive action to get it. He is acting like a dictator and needs to be rained in by the government we elected to protect us from people like him and his administration.
I can understand how much you guys value your freedom and the right to protect it.
I cannot understand why you’d need to posses guns to do so.
Arguments like “Look what happened in Paris, they didn’t have guns to protect themselves” are not really well thought about, let me point at 9/11 here.
Terrorist attacks are one thing, but if you look at statistics and compare Europe and America you’D have to realize, that you can live more or less safely without everyone being able to posses arms.
I’m too lazy to google the actual numbers, but here in Germany there are much less victims to gun related incidents than in the USA.
About the 2. amendment: It hat it’s use back in the days where there was the actual threat of the British Imperial Army being able to attack again after you guys became independent.
So the right of everyone being able to own arms served the purpose of dealing with an actual threat, but if you take a look at how things are today the probability of an invasion in the US by any country is going towards 0%.
The US Army has got their bases all over the globe and you got those nice NSA and CIA guys watching all the activity on our planet.
This just leads to one thing: The 2nd amendment is outdated and I hope more people start to try looking behind the scenes of the big players and not blindly believing what propaganda has made them believe.
I mean you don’t need a gun to be a real man for a real man is born with a gun between his legs. If you say it’s about being able to protect your family then let me ask you how you going to protect your little 3 year old son from the gun he’s playing with seeing it as a toy after he accidentally shot you in the face, with a pink Glock 5 and Helloy Kitty on it…
Cheers
One problem with Americans and their guns is…. everytime you mention Gun control laws they see the Boogey man around every corner, THE GOVERNMENT IS OUT TO GET US,or I”M NOT GOING TO HAVE MY FAMILY UNDEFENDED or some other stupid crazy senario that they can think up in their narrow minded little world, instead of placing their trust in their local police force, they rather fall into a made up senario from the likes of the NRA that the RUSSIANS are coming every immigrant they see is out to get them, so arm yourself before its to late!!!!
Have you been infiltrated by our government, don’t you have something better to do. now you are spitting more lies. I did a independent poll of 10 people today and all of them disagreed with what Obama is trying to do. That is 100% of the people are against his actions.Even Anonymous has fallen for the Propaganda!
WOW! HOW FULL OF SHIT IS THIS ARTICALE!!! I can see the liberal footprint here..This isn’t even a well thought out story, much less than a provable one. I’m guessing the ONLY people asked in this survey were Dems and Liberals loyal to Obama…The numbers don’t lie, nor should you for ratings if you want to be taken seriously…
Before the spelling NAZI’s start….*Article*..Sorry for the typo, it wouldn’t let me edit…
This Article Is Bullshit!!! If you need to lie to get noticed, You can’t be taken anymore seriously than the ones you bash at FOX…I don’t believe everything I hear in media,,, but to spew this nonsense is just Unconscionable. You make yourself out to be an ass when you post nonsense like this with no proven sources…