Obama: ‘I Believe in the Second Amendment. It’s There, Written on Paper.’

By Fred Lucas

President Barack Obama demanded a sense of urgency for gun control, “because people are dying.”

“Every single year, more than 30,000 Americans have their lives cut short by guns,” the president said in the East Room Tuesday morning, flanked by family members of people killed in mass shootings. “In this room right here, there is a lot of resilience, a lot of strength, but there is also a lot of pain.”

He also attacked the National Rifle Association and other organizations. ”The gun lobby might be holding Congress hostage, but they cannot hold Americans hostage,” Obama said. “We cannot accept this carnage as the price of freedom.”

He added rights must be balanced. ”I believe in the Second Amendment. It’s there, written on paper,” Obama said. “I taught constitutional law, I know a little something about this.”

But he said the right to worship and right to assembly has been infringed on by mass shootings in churches, schools and movie theaters.

“Every time I think about those kids it makes me mad, and by the way, it happens on streets of Chicago every day,” Obama said, seeming to choke up and become silent.

Obama added, “This has not been the first step in …Read the Rest

Source:: The Blaze