What are ‘common sense’ gun control measures?

Obama has renewed his call for stricter gun laws after the shooting and has expressed exasperation at the frequency of mass shootings in the U.S. “Man is a political animal”, Aristotle said, and it is through politics that we decide how we should all live together. “This is a political choice that we make”. By the next day, Obama had a remedy: “Be a single-issue voter”.

“I’ve spoken to my family and for myself and for my family, my daughter and son, on principle I find that we are in disagreement with his policies on gun control and therefore we will not be attending the visit”.

He wrote something to the effect of: “Other people think I’m insane, but I’m not”.

This is not an accident. There is no way politicians can take away this fundamental right guaranteed by the Second Amendment whether they like it or not.

“Someone somewhere, will say Obama politicized this issue”. This happens time and time again, whether the issue is police officers getting shot, the Keystone pipeline, war, or something else entirely. At a time when he should be using his office and his influence to urge healing and unity, Obama uses them for strident community organizing to advance his agenda. Tightening background checks isn’t going to reduce gun violence.

One thing that many pro-gun people often point out is that there has been an overall trend of less gun violence over the last 25 years or so, and that is true. So reducing the number of guns – by limiting access to them, or by immediately cutting the supply of them through, for example, buyback programs – would very likely lead to fewer gun deaths.

The United States has become a virtual armed camp, with an estimated one gun for every American.

The parents of Cheyenne Fitzgerald, one of the Umpqua Community College shooting survivors, said Monday that if they have the opportunity to speak to the president they will urge him to put more resources toward treating the mentally ill in America. That is something the government can fix by, for instance, appropriating more money toward the National Instant Criminal Background Check System.

Democrats want to make it impossible for the good citizens of our country to get a gun the legal way.

Is this your new spokesman, gun-grabbers? The NRA has set up the conversation such that those who advocate for even modest gun control are treated as though they wish to ban guns entirely. No other country in the world has a problem with gun murders on this scale.

Many people in these countries would say they believe part of the solution to gun violence is better control of guns. The debate never gets off the ground, days and weeks pass, and people move on to the next major news event.

In his remarks Thursday, he insisted that all he wants are common-sense reforms that would stop mass shootings, as if the people who disagree with him are in favor of such slaughter.

Multiple eyewitnesses and relatives of the victims all said the shooter asked the victims to state their religion.

Since the fatal shootings in December 2012 of 20 children and six adults in Newtown, Conn., six states – Connecticut, Colorado, Delaware, New York, Washington and most recently Oregon – have expanded background checks to virtually all guns sold, no matter the venue. Legislators should be responding emotionally to these killings, and doing something constructive about gun violence.

However, I need to comment on an attitude I have noticed in the gun control activist community.