There is nothing in this legislation that would have had any effect on what took place in Sandy Hook. And if you think magazine size would have had an effect, it would have taken the shooter about 15 seconds longer to get off all the rounds he did.

He's a hypocrite as usual. Benghazi and Fast & furious are two easy examples. Impeachment should be followed by imprisonment.

Very Very Poor Leadership. There is an AGENDA here that the American Public is being duped on.

The POTUS is taking the correct proposal to fix the problems of gun violence.

The NRA, with its inability to reflect upon itself, is bringing this on themselves. I agree with most of the presidents points, and hope he prevails on our behalf.

I don't see a problem with the background checks and having to be mentally fit. But that being said people that pass should still be able to purchase assault rifles. I really like putting good guys with guns in or close to schools and possibly other area.

Yes I support this effort. In addition, prosecutionses I. for people who evade background checks must be public, and result in strong deterrent sentences in jail. Not just a fine. A. K. T.

I'm laughing at the very very poor leadership comment. When public opinion favors action to curb proliferation of high capacity guns to those who would hurt us, and the president steps in, at his own significant risk, its called poor leadership? Its EXACTLY the opposite.

Give up every gun I have to prevent a repeat tragedy. But it is not the guns. It is the person. Lie detector tests at the point of purchase for firearms or ammo maybe an option?

President Obama is wrong about almost everything. Laws against anything will not stop it, and only increase profits from selling it. Tell him to mind his own business and leave us alone. His job is to protect the nation from other country citizens, not ours.

No. Absolutely not. There has been plenty of infringement on the 2nd Amendment already. More only erodes our freedoms. At what point do we just decide to throw the Constitution away? At what point do we just end up saying, "The founders are no longer relevant and the founding documents should be thrown away. We should renounce our Republic and adopt some other form of Government such as Communism, Socialism, Marxist-Lenist-ism, or etc." When do we abandon our Republic altogether and decide the document that defines our Nation is of no value? That's what it means when the Constitution and our rights erode. It means we are ignoring our first law. Our Nations first law as a Nation was the Constitution - our first rule - the foundation on which every bit of what this country is stands on that founding document. How many pieces can you chip away before the whole thing crumbles?

Mr. Bailey, I wonder what your perspective and attitude would be if your family or your children or your grandchildren were at Virginia Tech, Columbine, Colorado, or Sandy Hook and were massacred by these type weapons and magazines?

I think it's about time. The killing of all those innocent children was the most terrible act a single person could do. Something needs to get done and I firmly believe that the President and the Vice President's hearts are going to do what is right for the country in this matter. God bless America.

I believe the 2nd Ammendmant gives us the right to arm ourselves however we feel necessary in order to protect ourselves and our families from any harmful source including the government. The president and Joe Biden are using the blood of innocense to push a political agenda and it is sickening. By attempting to use presidential proclamations to change and effect law abiding citizens is a direct attack on the Constitution and the American people themselves. It just shows the level contempt he holds for the constitution and his ignorance concerning the American people. The Prsident should go online and attempt to buy a semi-automatic rifle right now. The fact that they are hard to find because of recent sales should have given this president an indication of the true will of the people.

yes! Charge adults that purchase MA video games for children, with the same crime as those that purchase cigarette/alcohol for children.

tax video games developers that create violent video games, much higher just like we do with companies that make cigarettes and alcohol.

no,
& it's to bad because if any of these unconstitutional laws were in affect a few years ago they might have stopped 350+ Mexican civilians from being slaughtered by the "assault weapons" the ATF knowingly sold to known Mexican Drug Cartel members during Operation Fast and Furious

Any attempt to change the second amendment is tyranny.

Obama's proposals constitute a horrifying overstep. The term "assault weapon" is meaningless - it is a legal term of art that Obama / Dianne Feinstein have expanded to encapsulate the vast majority of firearms currently owned and available in America. Despite Obama's lies to the contrary, such a ban would negatively affect every target shooter; every hunter; and every law abiding gun owner who keeps a gun for self defense or personal enjoyment. Gun owners and the NRA aren't opposed to an "assault weapons" ban because we worry that it may open the door to a more complete ban on guns - we're against it because it IS a near complete ban on guns. Similarly, Obama hopes to ban standard capacity magazines by demonizing them as somehow being of expanded, "high-capacity." Endless lies. What part of "shall not be infringed" does the President not understand?

President is doing something long overdue!! It is tragic
that so many kids have to 'die together' for us to wake up.
People embracing weapons reflects a mistrust of our police
and armed forces. Are our judicial & military so broken that
we need assault weapons like Taliban!!

The idea that we do nothing and that will somehow magically fix the problem is flatly irresponsible. We have stop paying attention to the idiots screaming with their hair on fire about black helicopter's and such nonsense and take some adult concrete measures to address a logical form of gun control. If the starting point is background checks on all gun sales then do it.This congress has done nothing for this country on its own in 4 years! If I was obstructive or did not perform in my job I'd get fired in a a day! Do your damm jobs and protect this country from at least the extreams.

As our Gov. Rick Perry said, our right to keep and bear arms CANNOT and WILL Not BE ABRIDGED. Obama is president not king or dictator. There is a reason our founding fathers provided for the second amendment. He continues in his efforts to overstep his authority just as he usually does. Disarming the population has long been a tactic of the left wingers. It has long been a tactic in past dictatotships, such as Nazi Germany for example. IT"S GONNA WORK!

Obama iam with you

Those people dont kno wat they r saying

Would any of these proposals have stopped the mass killings they are intended to stop without stopping potential victims of similar killings the ability to defend themselves?

Yes of course we need control on these weapons. People who think otherwise are either ignorant of the situation or too crazy to be allowed to handle dangerous things.
Rather than 'foot' the expensive plan floated by NRA (putting 100s of millions into adding yet more guns to our schools and day care centers) why not limit the guns? A good guy with a gun may be helpful,but they are too few to be effective.

Of coarse. The day I put myself before the welfare of all the children in the nation is the day I check out... the actual chances I am actually going to NEED an assault weapon to defend my house against an intruder are slim and none. I can just as easily defend and protect my house with a pistol. And this argument that some nutbags are saying they need it becuase they might have to use it on American soldiers if the Government turns on them is insane. These people wrap themselves in the flag on one hand and then say they need an assault rifle to defend against our government if they come after them is not only deeply flawed is not only dangerous, but it's NUTS. And I hope they arrest every last one of those southern sheriffs that say they won't enforce the law if passed... and if there is a mass shoot in their town THEY need to be held responsible. Putting your sick twisted view on the 2nd amendment is going to get more people killed. If Ronald Reagan, their hero can ban these weapons and write a letter giving his reasons why he wanted them banned, that should be good enough for them.

Yes, we must do something about all the killing that is going on in our
Country. Don

The total and willful blindness of so many people is shocking. When we lose our rights such as the second amendment, we'll just like the communist countries where you are a slave of the state, all your money is taxed away, and you can't do anything about it because you don't have any guns. This just the life that people in Red China have, and all other communist countries. Only a fool would want to give up his rights voluntarily. There's a reason all the people of the world have always dreamed of coming to the USA!

Obama's gun control plan if guns were cars: "Don't worry. I don't want to ban all cars; just the ones with tires, engines, and steering wheels."

Obama should be ashamed for how he has been misrepresenting the "assault weapons" ban to the public. Neither the 1994 Clinton ban nor Feinstein's newly introduced - and greatly expanded - version have anything to do with real assault rifles, military weapons, AK47's, UZI's, M16's, or any of the other stuff that he other Democrats have kept talking about. All of those are REAL assault rifles; they're machine guns - and they're ALREADY BANNED. They have been for decades (via the 1934 National Firearms Act and 1968 Gun Control Act).

Obama's current "assault weapon" ban just targets ordinary guns that millions of us peacefully own and use on a weekly basis. Disgusting. (And not made any better by the media's shameless complicity - showing pictures of banned machine guns as the supposed guns being targeted by this ban; failing to report on how expansive the ban actually is, etc).

No I'm Not and here are a couple of quotes from someone that said it much better than I could.

"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither safety nor liberty"

"Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch. Liberty is a well-armed lamb contesting the vote."

NO, Why is it no one is willing to talk about the lack of parenting for our children today. Kids are growing up on their own with no role models in what are more and more broken homes. Let’s fix the "hard" problems of broken families, peer pressure, bullying, over stressed over worked parents first.

When the second amendment was written black powder rifles were the assault weapons of the day. This made it even between the militia and private citizens, everyone had the same fire power. Today we are not allowed that same protection. The police and military are carry Fully Automatic weapons when we are only allowed semi automatic versions. Let’s not trash the second amendment any further.

Increased background checks, closed loopholes at gun shows, better mental health care: All GOOD things.

Assault weapon ban, limited magazine capacity, violating our constructional rights: All BAD things.

Absolutely not. Whether the President likes it or not, law abiding citizens have a Constitutional right to own guns, and his proposal to ban basically all modern guns and normal size magazines would deeply infringe on that right.

I'm a target shooter. Every gun that I own would be deemed an "assault weapon" under Obama's / Feinstein's bill; every gun that I want to buy in the future would also be banned as an assault weapon. How is that not infringing on my right to keep and bear arms?

Finally, to all of you who seem to think that the Second Amendment isn't violated as long as at least a couple guns remain legal (or as long as a person jumps through 2 dozen administrative hoops first), ask yourselves this: would your right to freedom of association be infringed upon if all but one political party was banned? How about if your right to free assembly was "regulated" such that you couldn't protest anything within one mile of a government building, road, or other public gathering place... ever? What if your freedom of speech was restricted to written pamphlets and yelling from street corners - that was all the founding fathers had, after all.

No. Really, Obama's plan doesn't seem to have much of anything to do with school security at all. The NRA's plan was reasonable: if you want to increase security at our nation's schools, perhaps you should... well, hire security to protect our schools. Instead, Obama ridiculed the NRA, played it off like they'd suggested handing out guns to first graders, and instead came out with this massive anti-gun wish list. And he presented it in front of a group of schoolchildren no less. Shameless politics, and true to what seems to be the Democratic mantra - never let a tragedy go to waste.

There is already a ban on "assault" weapons. The background cks, yes! The second amendment needs to stay in tact, the way it was intended. If someone chose's to kill a lot of people, they can get their hands on any weapon they chose. They don't need to get a registered fire arm. Let's not forget the infamous "Fast & Furious"! How legal was that? As far as video games go? Anyone remember the PMRC & Tipper Gore from the '80's? To many parents these days spare the rod & spoil the child. Mental health needs to be addressed at the elementary level. Bullying, abuse, neglect, etc... only exacerbates already underlying problems. POTUS needs to leave the gun laws alone before our second amendment goes the way of "Obama Care".

No. Obama's gun control proposals have nothing to do with preventing crime and everything to do with disarming law abiding citizens (and appeasing his anti-gun base). The media coverage on this issue has been terrible - and this article and some of the comments on it are proof. The author says that one of Obama's central proposals is to ban "military-grade assault rifles," but real assault rifles are fully automatic and have been effectively banned since 1986. No military in the world uses the guns that are being targeted by Obama's "assault weapons" ban; they are by definition NOT "military-grade" guns. The assault weapons ban that Obama is pushing right now just bans a huge number of normal guns - rifles, pistols, and shotguns - by calling them something scary. The liberals know that American's wouldn't support it otherwise.

Worse still, people seem to be falling for it. Someone above said that he / she can't believe that people are defending the same guns used by the Taliban in Afghanistan. Obama's assault weapons bill has nothing to do with those kind of guns - THEY'RE ALREADY BANNED. Another poster said that he "doesn't need an assault weapon to defend himself" - he's fine with a pistol. - Too bad Obama's assault weapons and magazine ban proposals would almost certainly outlaw his pistol too.

For the love of god people, READ THE BILLS AND LEARN THE CURRENT STATE OF THE LAW before taking a position. Shocking revelation here: politicians don't always tell the truth.

Marvin
Recently, the liberal media has compared those in faver of our Second Amendment to Nazis. I would strongly suggest that the shoe is on the wrong foot. If I am not mistaken, it was Hilter that assured the people that thier firearms would not be taken away. And then he took them away. It's always easier to deal with an unarmed populace.
Lets face it, we have a fascist ideologue as president with a napoleonic complex who does not understyand capitalism, never read Adam Smith, does not know who Milton Friedman was or Thomas Sowell. He has a distain for America, thinks that poeple have gotten rich by exploiting the downtrodden.

I am looking at two books that were recently issued by ATF entitled ATF State Laws and Published Ordinances - Firearms 2010 - 2011 31st edition and ATF Federal Firearms Regulations Reference Guide 2005, 497 pages and 240 pages respectively. Point is are there not enough laws already on the books?
I was a City Councilman in Danbury Ct. I also had a CC permit there. I can tell you that they have some of the strictest gun laws in the country. Background check, safe gun courses, vouchers, fingerprints sent to the FBI, local applications. But if you have a mental issue, there is no place on the application where that question is asked. If you have to deal with a person with a mental issue, their rights are so well protected that until they do something that gets them in trouble you cannot take any protective action. Ergo, the mother of the Sandy Hook mass murderer tried to have him committed for treatment weeks before this tragedy took place.

Reading the comments reminded me of two things: the sight of cats chasing evasive balls of light, and a quote by Voltaire, whose wisdom rings true to this day.

“Many are destined to reason wrongly; others, not to reason at all; and others to persecute those who do reason.” ~ Voltaire

When a person is hit and killed by a car, we charge driver with vehicular homicide, but we don't blame the car so why are we blaming the gun when somebody is killed with one. If you look up weapons used in homicide you will find baseball bats, butcher knifes, and your own hands and feet. so far I haven't herd of any one wanting to ban hands, just think if would ban hands no one could pull a trigger or run you down with a car. In Chicago each year some 500 juveniles die most of gun shot wounds and this is in a town with a total ban of all guns inside the city limits. Clinton tried this assault weapon ban from 1994 to 2004 and 3 separate studies were done and they all said the same thing the ban did more harm than good and now Obama wants to repeat Clintons mistake. If they need to do something make it a card like a license to allow a person to buy a gun after a complete back ground check, similar to a concealed weapon permit. Gun owners are for a law that works, but we haven't seen one yet. Gun do a lot of good you never hear of, and no one has said anything about how many would be out of a job. One gripe I have is would somebody look up the definition of a assault weapon, it states selective fire and none of these guns were selective fire, that's for the military. thank you Tim