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Obama’s Partisan Memorial Speech in Dallas
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Yesterday, a memorial was held in Dallas for Lorne Ahrens, Michael Krol, Michael Smith, Brent Thompson, and Patrick Zamarripa, the five police officers killed in last week’s shooting. President Obama spoke, as did former President George W. Bush.
Bush called for people to come together. “At times, it seems like the forces pulling us apart are stronger than the forces binding us together. Argument turns too easily into animosity…. Too often we judge other groups by their worst examples, while judging ourselves by our best intentions.” It was a time for national unity. Obama even brought Ted Cruz along on Air Force One.
And then Obama went and ruined it by using the solemn occasion to mouth a particularly nonsensical piece of left-wing gibberish: “We flood communities with so many guns that it is easier for a teenager to buy a Glock than get his hands on a computer or even a book.” This quote was so insane that when the White House tweeted it, they left off the book part. (Of course, we’re assuming he’s talking about the United States and not, like, Mogadishu.)
Do we even need to explain this?
Okay, so first, you can’t buy a handgun if you’re under 18. So any “teenager” he’s talking about (were they to actually exist) is an adult. Second, Glocks are expensive. We checked prices, and even a used one will cost you several hundred dollars. You can get a laptop at Walmart for far cheaper and refurbished ones can be had for less than a hundred bucks. And that’s not counting smartphones or the computers that students have access to through school.
And then there’s the books. There are 119,000 libraries in the United States, including 81,000 public school libraries. But beyond that, because Amazon exists, in a lot of cases it’s easier to just buy a book and have it shipped to you than to bother trudging down to the library. And that’s to say nothing of the stacks of books lying around doctor’s offices and coffee shops free for the taking.
So, this probably goes without saying, but no, it’s not easier for a teenager to buy a Glock than to get a computer or a book. But thank you, Mr. President, for using tragedy as an excuse to spew hyperbolic rhetorical nonsense about gun control.
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Published in Guns, Policing, Politics
You will note that every Obama speech is about Obama (in one way or another). It’s particularly striking at memorial services.
I didn’t think anybody read it because nobody knew he’d eaten dog.
When the Bush administration came into office, the Clintonistas, classy as ever, vandalized the computers and typewrites, removing the “W” key. Had they only known, the Bushies could have truly hamstrung the Obama administration by returning the favor with the letter “I”.
Better yet remove the “M” key for me.