It should be obvious to anyone who knows anything about the president that his "support" of the Assault Weapons Ban is a joke. There's just no excuse with a Republican House and a Republican Senate to credibly say that he's for the bill while it's being quashed in Congress.

But then he said something in the meat of his response that is so at odds with his approach to terrorism that I can't make heads of tails of it.

But the best way to protect our citizens from guns is to prosecute those who commit crimes with guns.

Not only do I fundamentally disagree with the premise of this statement I find it shocking in it's implicit alignment with 2nd amendment wingnuts. Why isn't it just as important to "pre-emptively" act to stop gun crimes as it is to stop terrorism?