RESPONDS TO STATE OF THE UNION ADDRESS pot

Two nights ago, President Barack Obama delivered his State of the Union address.. In that speech, the president displayed a level of public deception that simply cannot be ignored.. “We’

Two nights ago, President Barack Obama delivered his State of the Union address In that speech, the president displayed a level of public deception that simply cannot be ignored

Before we get to that, let’s go back about two months Days after

tragedy struck Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown,

Connecticut, the president held a press conference at the White House

“We’re going to have to look at schools,” the president said, later

adding that Sandy Hook “… should be a wake-up call for all of us to say that if we are not getting right the need to keep our children safe,

then nothing else matters.” Nothing else matters

The NRA agreed about making our schools safer for our children A few days after the president’s press conference, we announced the NRA School Shield safety program to put trained, qualified, armed police or security officers in every single school in the country

The media scoffed at our proposal The president said he was

“skeptical.”

But Americans agreed with the NRA, that nothing else mattered more than the safety of our schoolchildren

Already, more than 23,000 schools have armed guards and in all

50 states, government officials, local authorities and school districts are considering their own initiatives to protect schools with armed security — because when it comes to keeping our kids safe at school, nothing else matters

That is, until the State of the Union address, two days ago This was the president’s first State of the Union of his second term This was the address in which the president laid out his most ambitious agenda, focused on the issues of greatest importance to him

In an hour-long speech, nowhere were the words “school safety” to be found Less than two months after saying we had to look at our

schools, the president made not one mention, in his entire speech, of the need to improve security for our schoolchildren

When nothing else matters — to every parent in America — President Obama had nothing to say about school security And nothing he’s proposed has anything to do with protecting one child in any school

A year ago, I began to warn America’s gun owners that, if re-elected, President Obama would set about dismantling the Second Amendment That, with no more elections to worry about, the president would wait

Bans on millions of commonly owned rifles, shotguns and handguns … bans on tens of millions of standard magazines … bans on private transfers, even between family members … import bans … a federal database to track firearms and their owners … in other words,

the national registration of every single gun owner in the country

It was only a few weeks ago when they were marketing their anti-gun agenda as a way of protecting schoolchildren from harm That charade ended at the State of the Union, when the president himself exposed their fraudulent intentions

It’s not about keeping our kids safe at school That wasn’t even

mentioned in the president’s speech They only care about their

decades-old gun control agenda — ban every gun they can, tax every gun sold and register every gun owner

This president has taken the art of public deception and manipulation

to a whole new level Consider his proposal for so-called “universal background checks.”

At first glance, it sounds like a reasonable, good idea But there’s nothing “universal” about it

Think about it Criminals won’t be part of their universe They’ll

steal their guns or get them and everything else they want on

the black market

Even when prohibited people are flagged by the system, they’re

almost never stopped In 2010, out of 76,000 denied purchasers, only 13 were successfully prosecuted under federal law for illegally attempting to buy a gun That universal failure endangers us all!

The mentally ill are also not part of their universe For the last

20 years, since the NICS system came on line, government has failed

to include records of those judged mentally ill by a court of law

If we can’t even get those records into the system, are we truly to believe that government can require medical professionals to add the records of mentally disturbed patients into the system?

You know the answer to that

The only people who will be checked are law-abiding, normal, sane,

decent Americans It will our names — the names of good people —

that will be put into a massive database, subject to federal registration and abuse of privacy And none of it — from universal checks to

universal gun bans — none of it does anything to keep our children safer in their schools

And the president knows it That’s why he didn’t even mention it

in his speech

But it’s what we want We care as parents and we care as law-abiding

gun owners

and deserve nothing less than absolute respect and admiration

as lawful American gun owners under the Constitution of the

United States of America

And for our Second Amendment freedom, Mr President, WE WILL STAND AND FIGHT! We will not be duped by the hypocrisy in the

White House or the Congress who would deny our right to

semi-automatic technology and all the magazines we need to defend

ourselves and our families

Mr President, the National Rifle Association is nearly 5 million

members strong, and growing by tens of thousands every day We will continue to support what will work to make our children and our

families safer And what you failed to even mention in your speech — fixing our broken mental health system … and we will fight for swift, certain punishment of every criminal that touches a gun … and

because millions of our children remain today as vulnerable and

unprotected as ever — we renew our call for armed police and security officers in every school in America

When it comes to keeping our kids safe at school, nothing else

matters