Obama administration: Terrorists don’t kill people; guns kill people

The White House on Monday shifted the blame for the Paris terror attacks from jihadists to guns, as White House spokesman Josh Earnest said members of Congress should make it harder for people to purchase guns in the U.S. rather than worry about terrorists entering the nation.
Earnest made the remarks after a House vote to decrease the number of Middle Eastern refugees President Obama is working to bring into the U.S.
“Members of Congress are prepared to allow those individuals who are already in the United States and are suspected of having links to terrorism of going and purchasing a firearm,” he told reporters.
Earnest then suggested that the National Rifle Association, not ISIS, should scare Americans.
“I think that is a pretty clear indication that Republicans in Congress are more interested in playing politics and more scared of the NRA than they are concerned about doing the right thing for our national security,” he said.
The Obama administration is currently pushing Democratic lawmakers to pass legislation that would use the threat of terror to justify new gun laws.
Those efforts follow a report last week from the Washington Post which suggested that terror suspects in the U.S. have no trouble purchasing firearms legally in the U.S.
“Between 2004 and 2014, suspected terrorists attempted to purchase guns from American dealers at least 2,233 times. And in 2,043 of those cases — 91 percent of the time — they succeeded,” the report said.
Of course, The Post didn’t note that being a terrorist is also illegal, that 94 percent of people currently on FBI watch lists are prohibited from purchasing firearms or that, despite very strict gun laws, French authorities were unable to prevent terrorists from obtaining firearms.
Some of those terrorists, it’s worth noting, were in that country under the very same refugee policies the Obama administration refuses to rethink.
NRA spokeswoman Jennifer Baker says that makes the Obama administration’s gun control dishonesty even more reprehensible.
“[It’s] appalling that anti-gun politicians are exploiting the Paris terrorist attacks to push their gun-control agenda and distract from President Obama’s failed foreign policy,” she said.
“The NRA does not want terrorists or dangerous people to have firearms. Any suggestion otherwise is offensive and wrong,” Baker added.