Blasts from the Past

During his weekend press conference, Barack Obama doubled down on his demands for gun control following the tragic shootings in Oregon. But when pressed for specifics, he unsurprisingly doesn’t offer any of the “common sense” ideas which he claims would solve the problem of mass shootings.

Rather, he says he’ll just “talk about” the issue hoping to effect “political change.” In other words, he has no ideas and cares nothing about either lives or gun control, but cares a lot about further dividing Americans in time for next year’s elections.

Need further proof? Then consider the fact that Obama has had over 6 years to present his “common sense” ideas, and instead he’s given us this…

(12/21/12)

One of the previous ways Mr. Common Sense wanted to curtail gun violence was by having the DOJ give guns to Mexican drug cartels and then track what happened.  Unsurprisingly, it turns out that the guns were used to kill hundreds of people, including U.S. border agent Brian Terry.

Also, following the Sandy Hook shootings, Obama tasked his most trusted associate with the job of coming up with bold, innovative new “common sense” gun control policies. Not that we actually remember him producing any…

(1/9/13)
No, wait – Shotgun Joe did finally come up with a “common sense” idea to end mass shootings! And this was it…

(2/1/13)
Of course, waiting for non-violent videogames to change our culture is a slow process, which is why the Obama administration needed to posit ways for people to protect themselves in classrooms and offices without using guns…

That’s right. Homeland Security actually released a video asserting that scissors, staplers, and tape dispensers all made perfectly dandy defensive weapons. Which makes us wonder why Obama isn’t currently whining about “common sense” regulations to control dangerous office supplies.

(4/9/14)
Then in 2014, Eric Holder pitched another “simple” idea which only Rube Goldberg could love…

Clearly, the Obama administration has had plenty of time to come up with “common sense ideas,” but has failed miserably to do so. Because, as is the case with most issues this president has faced, actual solutions are less useful politically than keeping the problems alive as devisive wedge issues.

But on the positive side, Hope n’ Change will note that even our current gun regulations, while not perfect, at least weed out the obvious lunatics…

(1/18/13)