Obama: Second Amendment ‘Absolutists’ Think Gun Control Is a Plot by Me to ‘Stay in Power Forever’

By Fred Lucas

President Barack Obama said that at least some Americans who oppose gun control take that position because they think he wants to be a dictator.

“The politics have to change and the [gun control advocates] who are troubled by this have to be as intense, organized and as adamant about this issue as folks on the other side who are absolutists and think that any gun safety measures are somehow an assault on freedom, communistic or a plot by me to take over and stay in power forever or something,” Obama said Friday during a White House news conference.

Obama took several questions about gun control one day after a gunman murdered community college students in Oregon.

“There are all kinds of crackpot conspiracy theories out there, some of which are ratified by elected officials in the other party on occasion,” Obama said. “So, we have got to change the politics of this and that requires people to not just feel deeply, because I get a lot of letters after this happens telling me to do something.”

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Source:: The Blaze