A Republican sheriff running for Congress asked why Mr. Obama thought trying to take action would reduce gun deaths when no background check would have stopped the Newtown shooting or the San Bernadino shooting or any other mass shooting. President Obama said, "That's the same as saying since we could not prevent those crimes, why bother to try to stop any crime?"
When the widow of the hero soldier who was killed by his deranged friend at a gun range asked why the President thought she should not have a gun to protect herself, he said he had no objection to her having a gun; he objects to deranged people shooting innocents.
When a rape victim said she wanted a gun in her house to be sure she was never raped again and to protect her two infant sons, the President said he had no objection to her having a gun but he wasn't sure that gun would protect her if she were taken by surprised and he wondered whether her children were safer having that gun in the house.
And when the husband of Gabbie Gifford said he had testified at a Senate hearing where Senators (Republican Senators) suggested President Obama was planning to take away everyone's guns, all 350 million guns in 62 million households from Key West to Alaska. President Obama laughed and said, he had been President 7 years, when do these conspiracy theorists think he is planning to spring this massive round up on the nation? Do they think he can snap his fingers and collect all the guns in a few months?
Once again, I feel grateful to have Mr. Obama as President. I do continue to worry that so rational and benign a figure is simply too good to survive in a country filled with the likes of the crazies who call themselves Republicans.
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