Conservatives React to Obama’s Speech on Guns
Katrina Trinko /
Throughout President Barack Obama’s speech today on his new executive orders on guns, conservatives tweeted their responses.
Here are some of their top tweets:
Obama lists Fort Hood and San Bernardino terror attacks as examples of gun violence. Disgusting #StopGunViolence
— Joel Pollak (@joelpollak) January 5, 2016
"Every single year, more than 30,000 Americans have their lives cut short by guns." —@POTUS #StopGunViolence pic.twitter.com/TY1rxMObms
— The White House (@WhiteHouse) January 5, 2016
Two-thirds of those were suicides. Quite odd to bemoan method of suicide rather than suicide itself. https://t.co/OPyC5DrGDk
— Sean Davis (@seanmdav) January 5, 2016
"Fort Hood Binghamton Aurora Oak Creek Newtown The Navy Yard Santa Barbara Charleston San Bernardino Too many." —@POTUS #StopGunViolence
— The White House (@WhiteHouse) January 5, 2016
So, once again, the president is selling his policies by pointing to incidents and people that don't even intersect with them. Bizarre.
— Charles C. W. Cooke (@charlescwcooke) January 5, 2016
Gee, how did this issue gets so partisan, asks the guy who says gun owners are awful people who want to see more crime.
— Cam Edwards (@CamEdwards) January 5, 2016
Eroding civil liberties, especially in America, takes time, President Obama warns.
— Tim Carney (@TPCarney) January 5, 2016
Obama has openly supported Australian-style gun confiscation so his insistence that he doesn't want to take people's guns is quite odd
— Stephen Gutowski (@StephenGutowski) January 5, 2016
Reminder- Obama has still not mentioned the fact that violent crime has been cut almost in half over past 20 years.
— Cam Edwards (@CamEdwards) January 5, 2016
When Obama says "mass violence" he's being extremely disingenuous. Homicides down more than 50% since 1992
— Katie Pavlich (@KatiePavlich) January 5, 2016
Obama says we shouldn't impugn each other's motives, then continues to imply you want dead children if you oppose his gun control agenda
— Katie Pavlich (@KatiePavlich) January 5, 2016
"This is not that complicated. The reason Congress blocks laws is they wan't to win elections" @POTUS says on gun rights fight
— Juliet Eilperin (@eilperin) January 5, 2016
This is as close to an admission of the widespread unpopularity of gun control as Obama will ever get. https://t.co/xUWTc8YXCk
— Sean Davis (@seanmdav) January 5, 2016
Obama: if "we could stop one act of [gun] violence" new rules are worth it. Ok, then why not stop sanctuary cities? #StopGunViolence
— Joel Pollak (@joelpollak) January 5, 2016
Did Obama require “expanded background checks” of Iran before assisting them in going nuclear?
— Dana Loesch (@DLoesch) January 5, 2016
Obama just gave communist china as an example of good gun control He wonders why Americans think he doesn't believe in the second amendment
— Grover Norquist (@GroverNorquist) January 5, 2016
Obama, cries. pic.twitter.com/AQfBHsD1Ym
— Benny (@bennyjohnson) January 5, 2016
I do admire the pure cynicism of Obama here. He knows this is a completely empty gesture and yet he produced real tears. A+ work.
— Conn Carroll (@conncarroll) January 5, 2016