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Obama the Hypocrite: Forgives 100+ Gun Felons

<p>Most outgoing US Presidents grant numerous presidential pardons during their last months and&sol;or days in office&comma; but President Obama seems to have adopted that strategy for his entire time in office&period; This week&comma; he&&num;8217&semi;s decided&nbsp&semi;to forgive 107 gun felons&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>For a President so intent on tightening gun control &ndash&semi; not to mention all the recent shootings &ndash&semi; it seems odd that he would choose gun felons to forgive&period;&nbsp&semi;The 107 criminals were either pardoned or had their sentences commuted&period; According to <em>The Washington Times<&sol;em>&comma; their crimes included&colon;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&bull&semi; Using a weapon while dealing drugs<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&bull&semi; Carrying a weapon despite felony convictions<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&bull&semi; Lying in the attempt purchase weapons<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&bull&semi; Carrying weapons with registrations numbers removed<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><em>Let&rsquo&semi;s keep in mind this is the president who repeatedly asks for gun control reform&period;&nbsp&semi;<&sol;em><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&&num;8220&semi;This is the most incredible hypocrisy&comma;&&num;8221&semi; complains Erich Pratt&comma; executive director of Gun Owners of America&period; &&num;8220&semi;The president has commuted the sentences of dangerous criminals who were convicted of gun-related charges&period; But then&comma; he does everything in his power to block law-abiding gun owners from purchasing firearms&period;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>During his two terms in office&comma; President Obama has forgiven more than 600 federal inmates &ndash&semi; including hundreds of drug dealers and drug users&period; This is more than the nation&rsquo&semi;s past 9 presidents combined&period; Last week&comma; he told us why&colon;&nbsp&semi;&ldquo&semi;Our focus really has been on people who we think were overcharged and people who we do not believe have a propensity towards violence&period;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><em>If selling drugs while carrying firearms isn&rsquo&semi;t considered &ldquo&semi;a propensity towards violence&comma;&rdquo&semi; I can&rsquo&semi;t help but wonder what does&period;&nbsp&semi;<&sol;em><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&&num;8220&semi;On one hand&comma; the Obama administration is attempting to limit law-abiding Americans from exercising their Second Amendment right and protecting themselves from harm&comma;&rdquo&semi; says Senator Richard Shelby &lpar;R-AL&rpar;&period; &&num;8220&semi;On the other hand&comma; the president will let criminals with firearm-related offenses off easy&period;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;

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