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Obama and Gun Control

HARI SREENIVASAN: Last night on the “NewsHour,” President Obama joined Gwen Ifill for a wide-ranging interview and town hall meeting in Elkhart, Indiana.

After the broadcast, the president continued to take questions from the audience.

Gun shop owner Doug Rhude challenged the president’s record on gun control.

DOUG RHUDE, Gun Shop Owner: Knowing that we apply common sense to other issues in our society, specifically like holding irresponsible people accountable for their actions when they drink and drive and kill somebody, and we do that without restricting control of cars and cells phones to the rest of us, the good guys, why then do you and Hillary want to control and restrict and limit gun manufacturers, gun owners and responsible use of guns and ammunition to the rest of us, the good guys, instead of holding the bad guys accountable for their actions?

PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA: First of all, the notion that I or Hillary or Democrats or whoever you want to choose are hell-bent on taking away folks’ guns is just not true.

And I don’t care how many times the NRA says it. I’m about to leave office. There have been more guns sold since I have been president than just about any time in U.S. history. There are enough guns for every man, woman and child in this country.

And at no point have I ever, ever proposed confiscating guns from responsible gun owners. So it’s just not true.

What I have said is precisely what you suggested, which is, why don’t we treat this like every other thing that we use? I just came from a meeting today in the Situation Room in which I got people who we know have been on ISIL Web sites, living here in the United States, U.S. citizens, and we’re allowed to put them on the no-fly list when it comes to airlines, but because of the National Rifle Association, I cannot prohibit those people from buying a gun.

This is somebody who is a known ISIL sympathizer. And if he wants to walk in to a gun store or a gun show right now and buy as much — as many weapons and ammo as he can, nothing’s prohibiting him from doing that, even though the FBI knows who that person is.

So, sir, I just have to say, respectfully, that there is a way for us to have commonsense gun laws. There is a way for us to make sure that lawful, responsible gun owners like yourself are able to use them for sporting, hunting, protecting yourself, but the only way we’re going to do that is if we don’t have a situation in which anything that is proposed is viewed as some tyrannical destruction of the Second Amendment. And that’s how the issue too often gets framed.      PBS

Protestant fundamentalists vandalized a Catholic institution

by Joseph Gonzalez  •   December 16, 2015   

LIVONIA, Mich. (ChurchMilitant.com) - Last Friday, St. Colette Parish in Livonia, Michigan was vandalized, and anti-Catholic messages were spraypainted on parish property. The evidence suggests protestant fundamentalists.

 The vandal(s) spray-painted a statue of the Blessed Virgin red and the message "Rome Will Fall" on church doors. 

ChurchMilitant.com spoke with St. Colette's pastor, Fr. Gary Michaelik. "The report came in at about 9 p.m. on Friday," said Fr. Michaelik. "I was walking by the statue around 4 p.m. and everything was fine then. So it must have happened sometime between 4 p.m. and 9 p.m. on Friday."

On the same evening, not three miles south, at the Franciscan Felician Sisters' Motherhouse, the sidewalk was also painted with red messages that said "Pope is False Prophet," "No Idols," "Repent," "Jesus is Lord," "Jesus is coming," and an ambiguous message about "Mystery Babylon."

The "Babylon" message may refer to the "whore of Babylon" in Revelations 17:4–5, with which many protestants identify the Catholic Church.

"Considering what they wrote, it appears to be a fundamentalist or extremist Christian group," said Fr. Michaelik, adding that it was confusing why any Christian would go to such extreme measures. "Jesus never fostered criminal violence," he said.

Father Michaelik also speculated that the vandalism might be connected to the recent Las Vegas Mass disruptions by protestants shouting "Pope, Mary's statue and idols gonna' send you to Hell!" 

"We don't know if it's a coincidence or if it was an organized effort," he said.

The incidents are being investigated by the Livonia Police Department.   Church Militant

Note: I don't support this vandalism.  This is only to show how close we are from the second coming of Christ. The time of trouble is at hand. Let us get closer to God now that we can find Him.