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So this is the new "Obama's gonna take all your guns!!1!" trope.
Which of course he didn't. Either of the times the GOP leaders said he would. And they knew it. It was just to create hysteria among their base.
Yep, though the gun manufacturers, via the NRA, probably drive that one. They LOVE it when a Democrat is in office because they can say that and watch gun sales rise.
I'm convinced they also love shootings, or at least did, for similar reasons - I'm sure, for a while, gun owners worried this latest shooting might be the one that generates new restrictions on gun purchases, so out they went to buy. At this point I don't think they have anything to worry about; we as a country seem to have decided mass shootings are Just Great, so that little fear probably doesn't work as well any more.
Let's never forget the NRA's solution to school shootings, after Newtown, was literally, "More guns in schools."
Obama didn't increase firearm restrictions, but Trump did with the bump stock ban. Which, incidentally, is due to be overturned by the Supreme Court this year.
It wasn't for lack of trying though, because Obama did call for and back legislation to ban certain scary guns. Their attempts at the taking of guns simply failed the standard legislative process. Many of you probably weren't of voting age at the time, but this process of attempting to take the guns actually did happen during the Obama presidency.
I was of voting age in 2008. Banning or heavily regulating certain types of guns is not the same as sending the national guard into every home in the US to search for and confiscate them, which is exactly what conservatives have been saying will happen for at least a decade now. Iirc trump banned some kind of bump-stock-adjacent device, but I don't recall any gangs of roving feds going door to door to round up all the ones that have already been purchased.
Moving the goalposts, not allowed. I will return the discussion back to course.
Banning of guns is what people generally think of as "$politician taking the guns" and is what drives 2A voters to vote against $politician. In the above discussion we were discussing Obama, and he did in fact do what I said he did.
You seem hostile and easily perturbed. Exactly the sort of person that I hope is running around with a gun in their pants.
No, I said you were very smart. You can clearly read. Those were my exact words. Are you moving the goalposts?