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Eugene

(62,648 posts)
Mon Oct 2, 2017, 05:27 PM Oct 2017

White House: Now is not the time to talk about gun control. But 'if you look to Chicago ...'

Source: Washington Post

White House: Now is not the time to talk about gun control. But ‘if you look to Chicago …’

By Callum Borchers October 2 at 4:38 PM

White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders on Monday repeatedly deflected reporters’ questions about gun control, saying “there will certainly be a time for that policy discussion to take place, but that’s not the place that we’re in at this moment.”

During the same media briefing, however, Sanders weighed in on the exact “policy discussion” that she said the White House would not engage in on “a day of mourning.”

“I think one of the things that we don’t want to do is try to create laws that won’t create — or stop these types of things from happening,” Sanders said. “I think if you look to Chicago, where you had over 4,000 victims of gun-related crimes last year, they have the strictest gun laws in the country. That certainly hasn’t helped there. So, I think we have to, when that time comes for those conversations to take place, then I think we have to look at things that may actually have a real impact.”

This is the White House not talking about gun control.

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Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2017/10/02/white-house-now-is-not-the-time-to-talk-about-gun-control-but-if-you-look-to-chicago/
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White House: Now is not the time to talk about gun control. But 'if you look to Chicago ...' (Original Post) Eugene Oct 2017 OP
UFO lands on White House lawn, alien being walks out and Eliot Rosewater Oct 2017 #1
So the Bill of Rights was 9 amendments protecting individual rights MarvinGardens Oct 2017 #8
Yeah. Nt flamin lib Oct 2017 #9
I don't think so. Nt MarvinGardens Oct 2017 #10
I do. Nt flamin lib Oct 2017 #11
So, now is it time to talk about climate change instead? Xipe Totec Oct 2017 #2
FUCK THAT!!! it's a flimsy excuse gopiscrap Oct 2017 #3
You realize that gun laws vary widely in Europe hack89 Oct 2017 #6
You mean Europe aint a country? Glassunion Oct 2017 #12
she is as slimy as her father Angry Dragon Oct 2017 #4
exactly gopiscrap Oct 2017 #7
Sarah is so bright. One or two people may be thinking of Chicago now. pwb Oct 2017 #5

Eliot Rosewater

(32,536 posts)
1. UFO lands on White House lawn, alien being walks out and
Mon Oct 2, 2017, 05:30 PM
Oct 2017

republicans say "now is not the time to discuss whether or not UFO's are real"

Something like that.

There aint much to discuss anyway, constitution allows for ownership ONLY inside a well regulated militia, period.

MarvinGardens

(781 posts)
8. So the Bill of Rights was 9 amendments protecting individual rights
Mon Oct 2, 2017, 08:29 PM
Oct 2017

and one that protected the right of the government to have a militia?

Xipe Totec

(44,063 posts)
2. So, now is it time to talk about climate change instead?
Mon Oct 2, 2017, 05:31 PM
Oct 2017

Or universal health care?

Or Russia's intervention in our elections?

Or joyrides at taxpayer's expense?

Or Trump's Tax returns?

Or tax cuts for the 1%?

pwb

(12,199 posts)
5. Sarah is so bright. One or two people may be thinking of Chicago now.
Mon Oct 2, 2017, 05:48 PM
Oct 2017

The rest of us think wow Sarah, your a dumb ass.

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