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Obama Will Unveil Gun Measures Flanked by Children From ‘Around the Country’ Who Wrote Concerned Letters

Jan. 15, 2013 2:57pm Erica Ritz

Jay Carney: Barack Obama to Unveil New Gun Control Measures With Children Who Wrote Letters

(Photo: AP)

Roughly a month since the massacre of 20 children and six adults at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn., White House Press Secretary Jay Carney said that President Obama will be presenting gun control recommendations on Wednesday, flanked by children who wrote concerned letters in the aftermath of the tragedy.

“They will be joined by children from around the country who wrote the president letters in the wake of that tragedy expressing their concerns about gun violence and school safety, along with their parents,” he explained.

The steps could include ordering stricter action against people who lie on gun sale background checks, seeking to ensure more complete records in the federal background check database, striking limits on federal research into gun use, ordering tougher penalties against gun trafficking, and giving schools flexibility to use grant money to improve safety.

Obama is vowing not to back off his support for sweeping gun legislation that would require congressional backing – including banning assault weapons, limiting the capacity of ammunition magazines and instituting universal background checks – despite opposition from the influential gun lobby.

Fox News host Megyn Kelly broke the news during her broadcast Tuesday, via Gateway Pundit:

Kelly read her Twitter feed to get immediate reaction to Carney’s remarks.

“[People are] calling it disgusting, calling it shameless, one person pointing out that…those who feel differently than the president should have their own news conference with children whose lives were saved by guns.”

But White House officials believe that moving swiftly on gun proposals at a national level, before the shock over the Newtown shooting fades, gives Obama the best chance to get his proposals through Congress.

This is not the first time President Obama has utilized children and letter-writers in seeking support for his agenda.

After his position on gay marriage “evolved,” the president publicly responded to little Sophia’s letter about her two dads, and in a YouTube video uploaded roughly 3 years ago, the president read a series of “heartbreaking” letters about the nation’s health care system.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.

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1HonestInjun
Posted on January 15, 2013 at 4:17pm
These are the children who escaped the liberals Planned Parenthood death camps.

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- ranepowel
  Posted on January 15, 2013 at 5:41pm
  No children have ever been murdered due to abortion, as abortion removes fetuses, embryos and zygotes from women who choose to have a licensed, legal procedure done at their own choosing.
  
  Anything else you hear or say is just religious nonsense, grounded in 2,000 year old lies about mythical creatures and gods.
  
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Dkoonz
Posted on January 15, 2013 at 4:14pm
This kind of reminds me of Islamist terrorist hiding behind children so they dont get taken out.

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cassandra
Posted on January 15, 2013 at 4:12pm
how digusting and vile to use children this way, this propaganda at it’s worse

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Dkoonz
Posted on January 15, 2013 at 4:12pm
Wow this guy can stoop really low when it comes to taking away are freedom.

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Iron_Wyll
Posted on January 15, 2013 at 4:11pm
Now he is using children as shields.

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John.Galt
Posted on January 15, 2013 at 4:10pm
And when 3 or 4 armed robbers break down my door, how safe will my kids be when all I have to defend them is a baseball bat?

NEVERMIND, I WILL KEEP MY GUNS, THANK YOU!

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pappywags
Posted on January 15, 2013 at 4:09pm
What a despicable pig, no different than standing on the caskets of the 20 dead children from Newtown.
If this were someone from the right all we would hear is how they are politicizing the deaths and using children to further their agenda.
Funny how this distraction has taken the headlines from Benghazi and the Economy with no mention of the jobs that will be lost when one of the few manufacturing jobs left in America (Guns) are squashed by this tyrannical Government.

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mw747
Posted on January 15, 2013 at 4:07pm
This administration is absolutely Shameless….! I can hardly believe just how low they will stoop, using children to attack our constitution and yet then send them over to be slaughtered in a foreign land.

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Topcat
Posted on January 15, 2013 at 4:05pm
Children dont write letters to the President , unless they are put up to it by some Progressive Liberal adult , parent or teacher . I find it disgusting the President tries to manipulate his agenda using innocent children .

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perry1980
Posted on January 15, 2013 at 4:05pm
So 5 & 6 year olds like at Sandy Hook wrote the Potus?
I want to see all those letters and do an attendance check at this “news conference” tomorrow

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yoshik
Posted on January 15, 2013 at 4:05pm
Right, as he secretly wants to cook and eat the white ones.

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danimaldodge
Posted on January 15, 2013 at 4:00pm
Check out the letter MY sheriff in Linn County Oregon wrote to the Vice President. Way to know your people sheriff.. http://db.tt/0WOk2dEs

Will your local law enforcement community do the same?

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DSTSS2010
Posted on January 15, 2013 at 3:58pm
Another dog and pony show.

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Arshloch
Posted on January 15, 2013 at 3:57pm
He needs the little empty heads. They won’t understand that he is lying and the people watching will only pay attention to the children, and not hear the lies. A classic case of using a red herring.

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HigherRoad
Posted on January 15, 2013 at 3:57pm
Of course children can be intimidated and made to fear gun ownership. Obviously these are children who have been given the assignment by teachers or prompted by parents just as the those who learned to recite “Barack Hussein Obama–Mmmmm, Mmmmmm, Mmmmmm.” This is a Constitutional issue that cannot be decided by children. If Obama cares about our children, then why doesn’t he work on the budget and providing jobs so these children have a future in this country?

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Lotus503
Posted on January 15, 2013 at 3:55pm
Just like any other third-world dictator…shielding himself with the bodies of children instead of acting like a real man and standing on his own principles, no matter how screwed up they seem to us.

Pretty cowardly.

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Uechi
Posted on January 15, 2013 at 3:54pm
This Marxist piece of subhuman excrement has no shame. He will do or say anything to get what he wants. No threat from me, but I hope he goes and not quietly.

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Bookster
Posted on January 15, 2013 at 3:54pm
What a despicable shred of human debris this fool in chief is. Anyone who would stand on the bodies of dead children just to jam his unconstitutional fear induced plans through deserves the extra hot spot in hell he will be spending eternity in.

I have 4 words for these idiots in DC and in Albany for that matter, “Come and get ‘em!”

Liberalism is a mental disorder.
Progressives are a virus, a plague.
Democrats are Godless.
MSNBC=Hell’s webcam.
0bama=Enemy of America.

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leary1
Posted on January 15, 2013 at 3:52pm
Another over-dramatic, pre-planned/orchestrated CON JOB BY THE PROVEN LIAR AND CHIEF!!!Remember these liars said DON`T WASTE A GOOD CRISIS. AND EVERYTIME THEY SCREW US.

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GREEN.SPLAT
Posted on January 15, 2013 at 3:50pm
The staggering and rapidly increasing national debt is a far greater threat to children. Obama has no problem using and exploiting children for political gain. He just doesn’t get the fact that it only works on ‘low information’ voters though …

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BehindTheMouth
Posted on January 15, 2013 at 3:49pm
Ok, Obluegum stamps his feet like a little kid and signs his EO for outlawing guns. Then the House tries to impeach him, the House passes it but when it comes to the Senate and just before the vote, the democraps stage a walkout (like they did with Clinton) and whine to the Obluegum media. I’m just saying all democraps and the government media in one place at one time.

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Friendofthe56
Posted on January 15, 2013 at 3:43pm
Any of those kids from Chicago?

Maybe o-blah-blah could tell us all how his and the ballerina’s gun laws are working in Chicago.

The shameless phony.

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drrgb
Posted on January 15, 2013 at 3:37pm
When I was young, we called it stealing. Today, we call it government.

Tomorrow, the president will shamelessly surround himself with little children who were flown in with their parents at tax payer expense, financed by the Chinese, to be props for his proposals to infringe on our constitutional rights. They will be so happy with the free vacation, they will not realize the president is taking away their fundamental rights and stealing money out of their piggy banks and those of their children.

The second amendment was not put in place to allow citizens to hunt deer. The founders put it in place to protect the people from out of control government.

Under the Obama Administration, citizens and ambassadors will be banned from having guns, but the drug cartels will get theirs directly from the government.

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SoCtNights
Posted on January 15, 2013 at 3:36pm
Appears to be the standard Islamist terrorist tactic…surround yourself with the innocent.

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- BehindTheMouth
  Posted on January 15, 2013 at 3:51pm
  That’s why he’s probably doing to it.
  
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Micmac
Posted on January 15, 2013 at 3:35pm
NoBama may follow Alinsky, but his marketing propaganda is pure Hitler.

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