President Obama hosts town hall on guns in Virginia

[muriel_volestrangler]

Source: AP

-President Barack Obama tore into the National Rifle Association on Thursday as he sought support for his actions on gun control, accusing the powerful lobby group of peddling an "imaginary fiction" that he said has distorted the national debate about gun violence.

In a prime-time, televised town hall meeting, Obama dismissed what he called a "conspiracy" alleging that the federal government wants to seize all firearms as a precursor to imposing martial law.

He blamed that notion on the NRA and like-minded groups that convince its members that "somebody's going to come grab your guns."

"Yes, that is a conspiracy," Obama said. "I'm only going to be here for another year. When would I have started on this enterprise?"

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Full transcript here: http://edition.cnn.com/2016/01/07/politics/transcript-obama-town-hall-guns-in-america/

[LittleGirl]

1. I don't know

what reality Hugh and S.E. Cupp live in but their commentary afterwards just sent my blood boiling. And the smug face on Cupp really sealed my disgust.

[Tortmaster]

2. The "Death Panels"-style lies ...

... are coming. Beware. Be ready.

[onehandle]

3. Guns are no longer out of reach for discussion.

Here or in the real world.

The President has drawn a line.

Fear the future, gun fetishists.

[Nuclear Unicorn]

4. President Obama dismissed you as the imagination of conspiracy theorists.

[TeddyR]

5. Did you actually read the story?

Or watch the town hall? President Obama was clear that he isn't coming to take anyone's gun and that he isn't even trying to make it more difficult for people who can legally own a gun to purchase that gun. He's simply trying to keep guns out of the hands of people who shouldn't have them. Not sure what leap of logic you took to get to "guns are no longer out of reach for discussion."