Barack Obama Gets Pushback on Twitter After Calling for More Gun Control

Barack Obama called for more gun control and got significant pushback on Twitter on Friday, which was National Gun Violence Awareness Day.

His call for more gun control was coupled with calls to support Mike Bloomberg-affiliated Everytown for Gun Safety.

Obama tweeted:

On National Gun Violence Awareness Day, let’s honor the victims of gun violence – and do what we can to prevent even more tragedies.

Keep using your voice to call for change, keep voting, keep urging Congress to take action. And support the work of organizations like @Everytown…

— Barack Obama (@BarackObama) June 2, 2023

Twitter user @TXGunRights responded to Obama’s tweet by posting, “Man who drone bombed American citizens, weddings, funerals, and schools lectures on gun violence.”

Another Twitter follower posted a photo of Obama skeet shooting that had been photo-shopped to add a detachable magazine and an adjustable rear stock to the firearm.

Twitter user @KCPayTreeIt pointed to President Biden, referring to him as Obama’s “guy,” and asked Obama to quit talking about “gun violence” when Biden left stockpiles of weaponry in Afghanistan that have been seized by the Taliban and left our Southern border unsecured.

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Others posted photos of deceased Border Patrol agent Brian Terry and pointed to Operation Fast and Furious, an Obama-era operation in which over 2,000 guns were smuggled into Mexico.

Agent Terry came under gunfire and was killed while on duty December 14, 2010. Two Operation Fast and Furious rifles were found at the scene where Terry was killed.

AWR Hawkins is an award-winning Second Amendment columnist for Breitbart News and the writer/curator of Down Range with AWR Hawkins, a weekly newsletter focused on all things Second Amendment, also for Breitbart News. He is the political analyst for Armed American Radio and a Turning Point USA Ambassador. He was a Visiting Fellow at the Russell Kirk Center for Cultural Renewal in 2010. and he holds a Ph.D. in Military History, with a focus on the Vietnam War (brown water navy), U.S. Navy since Inception, the Civil War, and Early Modern Europe. Follow him on Instagram: @awr_hawkins. You can sign up to get Down Range at breitbart.com/downrange. Reach him directly at awrhawkins@breitbart.com.