Washington, DC – -(Ammoland.com)- It’s as if Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton are in a contest to see who can tell the most lies.
On Tuesday of last week, during the memorial service for the five law enforcement officers who were killed in Dallas on July 7, Obama said, “We flood communities with so many guns that it is easier for a teenager to buy a Glock than get his hands on a computer or even a book.”
On Thursday, the Washington Post Fact Checker slammed Obama with “Three Pinocchios” for the claim, calling it “strange.”
However, we’re not sure that “strange” is the best way to describe it. On the one hand, the claim was indeed “strange” to the extent that comparing guns to computers and books is, as the newspaper put it, “a catchy talking point [that] doesn’t make much sense” and “an exaggerated claim based in no real statistics, and which does nothing but distract the public.” And it was “strange,” as in “inappropriate,” for Obama to try to transform the solemn occasion of a memorial service into a campaign event for more political grandstanding on his gun control agenda.
However, “strange” can mean “unusual,” but there’s nothing unusual about Obama lying. He did so in Dallas, and for that reason perhaps it would have been more accurate for the Post to have termed his claim “false.”
As the newspaper noted, “Federal law prohibits licensed firearms dealers from selling a handgun, such as a Glock, to people under 21 years old. It prohibits unlicensed people, like family, from selling or transferring handguns to anyone under 18. In most states, you need to be at least 18 to purchase and own a handgun. Public libraries, on the other hand, generally don’t have an age limit or a background check for children to get a library card and access books and computers for free.”
The Post added, “It reminded us of a similar claim by Obama in March 2015, when he said, “There are neighborhoods where it’s easier for you to buy a handgun and clips than it is for you to by a fresh vegetable.”
The newspaper gave Obama “Three Pinicchios” on that occasion, calling his “vegetable” comment one in an “odd series of exaggerated gun claims.” It also gave Obama “Three Pinocchios” when he claimed that 40 percent of gun sales took place without a background check.
It’s anyone’s guess whether Obama or Clinton is ahead in their apparent race to tell the most lies. The good news for America is that Obama has only a few more months to rack up his tally while in the White House.
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I see the board is full of BS eating bigoted morons as usual. I think your all just pissed and so aggressive because ya’ll know your IQ’s are in the bottom 10% so you revert to gang mentality to boaster your ego’s.
Maybe someone ought to let our “president” know that since he has decided to be loudly anti-gun,
the number of women getting permits and buying firearms has risen over 80%!!!!
Thanks Barry!
I agree Tex.
Nothing new here. They constantly lie to the people. But that is pretty much our fault for not holding these idiots accountable. We continue to elect the same idiots over and over. This will be the case until We The People wake up and have some common sense.
The African born Muslim terrorist is about out of our White House ! Now we have to keep the bull dyke out ! TRUMP-PENCE 2016 !
MBH – I did hear Obama take credit for the “lowest crime rate in the last 30 or 40 years”. I will have to admit, he does deserve some of the credit: His gun ban agenda is responsible for the highest number of guns EVER in America, which has a direct correlation to lower crime rates. However, he has also contradicted himself on many occasions, claiming that gun violence and mass shootings are the worst they have ever been (which is of course another lie).