CNS News – by Patrick Goodenough
President Obama on Thursday pledged to use his last 18 months in office to work on gun control, calling it “the one area where I feel that I’ve been most frustrated and most stymied.”
“If you ask me where has been the one area where I feel that I’ve been most frustrated and most stymied, it is the fact that the United States of America is the one advanced nation on earth in which we do not have sufficient, common-sense gun safety laws – even in the face of repeated mass killings,” he told the BBC in an interview.
“And if you look at the number of Americans killed since 9/11 by terrorism, it’s less than 100. If you look at the number that have been killed by gun violence, it’s in the tens of thousands,” Obama continued.
“For us not to be able to resolve that issue has been something that is distressing, but it is not something that I intend to stop working on in the remaining 18 months.”
In the U.S., at least 34 Americans have been killed in terror attacks since 9/11. Those attacks include the 2009 killing of 13 people at Fort Hood, Texas, the 2013 Boston Marathon bombing, and the Chattanooga, Tennessee shootings last week which cost the lives of four U.S. Marines and a sailor.
Abroad, another 363 U.S. citizens have been killed in terror attacks since 9/11, according to data accumulated from State Department country reports on terrorism – or in years where data is incomplete, from the department’s Bureau of Consular Affairs’ record of citizens killed due to “terrorist action.”
The annual breakdown of terrorist fatalities abroad is 24 in 2014, 16 in 2013, 10 in 2012, 17 in 2011, 15 in 2010, 9 in 2009, 33 in 2008, 19 in 2007, 28 in 2006, 56 in 2005, 74 in 2004, 35 in 2003 and 27 in 2002.
“the one area where I feel that I’ve been most frustrated and most stymied.”
Stymied? Really stymied? Who writes this crap? Get rid of the CIA,Israel, your administration, and yourself and you won’t be STYMIED any more you ignorant wretch.
The annual breakdown of terrorist fatalities abroad is 24 in 2014, 16 in 2013, 10 in 2012, 17 in 2011, 15 in 2010, 9 in 2009, 33 in 2008, 19 in 2007, 28 in 2006, 56 in 2005, 74 in 2004, 35 in 2003 and 27 in 2002.
yet i would like to see how many people where killed by cops in the same years , who are the real terrorist .
Two of his stated goals , to bring us down to a 3rd world status , also to disarm americans . Ain`t gonna get them guns HOMO !
Just more impotent fear mongering and a waste of attention. I couldn’t care less what the puppet says, other than it’s an expression of the fear TPTB have regarding us . . .
He goes and doubles the gun sales and than thinks in his last few months of his office that he’s going to do something about it
What ? Sell more ? You bet , everyone get at it
Maybe this time we can really mess with em and bring in the no paper no info no infringement guns
All this freak will be able to accomplish is to Sell more firearms.
They can threaten, jump up and down and even hold their
breath till they turn blue …no one will comply !
Even if they do manage to pass an illegal decree.
I’ll leave Monty Python to tell them what we think of them ….
“Your mother is a badger and your father smells of elderberry wine.”
BIB. Bring It Barry.
maybe his gay lover is pushing his stool around, but that will be the only pushing of anything when it comes to the Usurper in chief
““And if you look at the number of Americans killed since 9/11 by terrorism, it’s less than 100. If you look at the number that have been killed by gun violence, it’s in the tens of thousands,” Obama continued.”
So why is there still a “War on Terror”, you two-faced Kenyan turd?