Barack Obama: Guns Are Our Shared Responsibility

&quot;30,000 Americans have their lives cut short by guns&quot;<p>To put it in perspective (<a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cdc.gov&#x2F;nchs&#x2F;fastats&#x2F;deaths.htm" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cdc.gov&#x2F;nchs&#x2F;fastats&#x2F;deaths.htm</a>):<p><pre><code> Heart disease: 611,105 Cancer: 584,881 Chronic lower respiratory diseases: 149,205 Accidents (unintentional injuries): 130,557 Stroke (cerebrovascular diseases): 128,978 Alzheimer&#x27;s disease: 84,767 Diabetes: 75,578 Influenza and Pneumonia: 56,979 Nephritis, nephrotic syndrome, and nephrosis: 47,112 Intentional self-harm (suicide): 41,149 </code></pre> Note that Accidents or Unintentional Injuries include (<a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cdc.gov&#x2F;nchs&#x2F;fastats&#x2F;accidental-injury.htm" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cdc.gov&#x2F;nchs&#x2F;fastats&#x2F;accidental-injury.htm</a>)<p><pre><code> Unintentional fall deaths: 30,208 Motor vehicle traffic deaths: 33,804 Unintentional poisoning deaths: 38,851 </code></pre> Overall, I think we need to have Executive Order to cure Heart diseases and Cancer before we go after the guns.

The problem that the media utterly ignores is that the Obama administration <i>does nothing with the failed checks it has NOW.</i><p>In 2010, for example, there were over 73,000 gun purchase attempt denials[1], of which <i>over 48,000[1] were known to be felons and&#x2F;or fugitives from justice [2]</i>). The number the Obama administration <i>attempted any prosecution</i> of? 44. [1]<p>Just think: in the first two years of the Obama administration (the most recent data in the WP article), there were <i>over 25,000 fugitives</i> that were identified trying to purchase handguns and <i>over 67,000 felons</i> trying to purchase handguns... and the Obama administration only even <i>attempted</i> to prosecute 121 of the total 92,000+.<p>Note that fugitive number: that&#x27;s 25,000 fugitives that could have been caught and taken off the street <i>just by having law enforcement show up</i> at the gun store when the would-be buyer attempted to get a handgun.<p>--<p>1. Washington Post Fact-checker blog, 4&#x2F;11&#x2F;13<p>2. NCJRS

My personal favorite line was the president of United States calling it a democracy.<p>It is a republic as written in constitution. The framers of constitution wrote much about the dangers of democracy, and here we are, where presidents call the United States one.