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Feeling a little confused today. I have just read where obama has granted pardons and commutations of sentences for 231 people today-the largest number on a single day. It brings his total number of pardons/commutations to 1,176 while in office, easily the largest number of any president in recent history. You have to go back to LBJ to find a higher number (1,187), and at the rate he's going obama will probably beat that before leaving office (probably his goal and part of his legacy).
Most were sentences for serious drug related crimes such as manufacturing and distribution.
Many of these involved the possession or use of a firearm, and a significant number of those were previously convicted felons in possession of those firearms, meaning that act alone was a crime.
So here's the part that has me confused. For the last eight years we've been hearing from obama and his minions about how gun are evil, guns are dangerous, how you don't need a 30 clip magazine to go deer hunting, how we're trying to "keep the children safe" by attempting to enact gun control, blah, blah, blah. But then this same obama turns around an lets these people back on the street who have demonstrated the willingness to use or possess guns in the commission of serious crimes.
I know that my mostly deplorable conservative friends will see this situation the same as I. But I am really interested in hearing how my liberal left leaning friends who have been bashing and whining about the election of Donald Trump, and who have staunchly defended obama for the last eight years view this. I can't wait to hear all about how these gun toting pardoned and commuted felons have been "rehabilitated" and have turned over a new leaf. How do you feel about having one of these newly rehabilitated move in next door?
Most were sentences for serious drug related crimes such as manufacturing and distribution.
Many of these involved the possession or use of a firearm, and a significant number of those were previously convicted felons in possession of those firearms, meaning that act alone was a crime.
So here's the part that has me confused. For the last eight years we've been hearing from obama and his minions about how gun are evil, guns are dangerous, how you don't need a 30 clip magazine to go deer hunting, how we're trying to "keep the children safe" by attempting to enact gun control, blah, blah, blah. But then this same obama turns around an lets these people back on the street who have demonstrated the willingness to use or possess guns in the commission of serious crimes.
I know that my mostly deplorable conservative friends will see this situation the same as I. But I am really interested in hearing how my liberal left leaning friends who have been bashing and whining about the election of Donald Trump, and who have staunchly defended obama for the last eight years view this. I can't wait to hear all about how these gun toting pardoned and commuted felons have been "rehabilitated" and have turned over a new leaf. How do you feel about having one of these newly rehabilitated move in next door?
