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Great news: Obama now taking policy advice from children

Jan. 16, 2013 10:52am Meredith Jessup

As he unveils his own “concrete package” of gun control proposals this week, President Obama will surround himself with his top policy advisors — elementary school children.

Great news: Obama now taking policy advice from children

President Barack Obama convenes a meeting with his Cabinet.

At 11:45 a.m. today, President Obama will stand before a backdrop of children to profess his support of various gun control policies, including bans on assault weapons and high-capacity magazines.

It won’t be the first time — nor the last, I’m sure — that the president has invoked children in his push for tighter restrictions on guns. Following the Sandy Hook massacre in December, Obama specifically mentioned children in his remarks following the shooting.

“Can we say that we’re truly doing enough to give all the children of this country the chance they deserve to live out their lives in happiness and with purpose?” he asked. “I’ve been reflecting on this the last few days, and if we’re honest with ourselves, the answer is no. We’re not doing enough. And we will have to change.”

Ahead of today’s announcement, the Obama White House also released letters to the Associated Press it had received from children who wrote to the president after the Newtown tragedy.

“It’s a free country but I recommend there needs (to) be a limit with guns,” one 8-year-old wrote to the president. “Please don’t let people own machine guns or other powerful guns like that.”

Now that sounds like a good idea, Obama thought. Done!

“I know that laws have to be passed by Congress but I beg you to try very hard to make guns not allowed,” an 11-year-old wrote to Obama.

I could not agree more. Don’t worry about Congress — executive orders will suffice.

It should be “very hard” for people to buy guns, the child added.

A-men. I couldn’t have said it better myself.

These architects of the president’s gun control policies will reportedly stand with him today at the White House and toast their policy success with flutes of apple juice, followed by an afternoon nap in the Lincoln Bedroom.

In CONTROL, Glenn Beck presents a passionate, fact-based case for guns that reveals why gun control isn’t really about controlling guns at all; it’s about controlling us. Find out more HERE.

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Comments (5)

Mr.Fitnah
Posted on January 17, 2013 at 2:35am
Pretty sure his plan is to make everyone so broke they cant afford a single shotgun shell.

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judyaz
Posted on January 16, 2013 at 10:12pm
Are they old enough to vote?
Actually, a child’s understanding of the world may be ego centered, since at that age life revolves around self and limited experiences. What can they know about gun ownership or the U.S. Constitution, or just about anything other than what their parents or teachers (if they’re in school yet) tell them to think. Thinking at that age is concrete; the brain has not developed to be capable of abstract thinking.
How can the President of the Unites States think children have all the knowledge needed about stopping violence in schools and about freedoms guaranteed in the U.S. Constitution? They have been sheltered from “R” movies, know nothing about crime (except getting by with lying to parents or stealing a cookie.) If they receive a spanking it is child abuse. So how can they really understand the mind of a violent sociopath or how to stop them? Their parents give them “time out” and take away their toys. But that simple, child-like reasoning should not be applied to gun laws, for a gun is not a toy. And the President is not Daddy. And they are way too young and nieve to understand ulterior motives or politics.

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dosdelgados
Posted on January 16, 2013 at 1:52pm
Not children of non-Democrats, though.

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shorelineliz
Posted on January 16, 2013 at 12:56pm
Looks like he is only taking advice from Black children. I guess white children, yellow children, brown children, red children, pink children, flesh colored children, purple children, green children, and any other color than Black can just shove it right?

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1bitterclinger
Posted on January 16, 2013 at 12:06pm
“Woe to the land whose king is a child and whose leaders are already drunk in the morning. Happy the land whose king is a nobleman, and whose leaders work hard before they feast and drink, and then only to strengthen themselves for the tasks ahead”. (Eccl 10: 16-1

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