Sometimes I think nearly everyone is unable to critically think. Do you see something like this and immediately agree with it or do you think about it for a little bit?

No shit he's surrounded by armed guards, he's a prominent head of state and lots of people want him dead for various reasons. Of course he's going to be surrounded by his professionally trained guards who do that for a living. You thought about that, right? Even anti-gun people, I'm pretty sure, would be perfectly OK with heads of state continuing to be surrounded by guns.

Now, If he did actually say that, he'd probably be referring to guns in the hands of the entire public. Some of the entire public consists of these idiots who do stupid shit with guns, because they are either untrained or have mental problems--both of these parties should not be holding a gun, and do make guns unsafe and thus give gun owners a bad name.

Sorry if that was a little harsh, but I'm seeing a trend of people unable to think about things, on both parties. They just follow their party and blindly agree with everything. I don't know if this is because I'm getting older and can see bullshit now, or if a lightbulb has suddenly turned on, but I bet it's always been this way. Also, no, I don't care for Obama, yes I'm pro-gun, and yes I'll likely be voting Republican.

Edit: Damn, every time I look at this comment, its bouncing between negative and positive. All the replies have been well-mannered too, thanks for the conversation guys.

Edit 2: Lot of people missing my point. My post was long-winded, so it probably got lost in there. If it didn't make the responses make no sense, I'd delete the whole thing and replace it with: this picture is stupid because the President of the fucking United States should be protected by armed guards no matter who's in the office, and no matter the gun control situation. To do otherwise would be completely idiotic. So would taking our guns, yes.

Damn, I come here to get away from the liberal shit-fest that is /r/news and /r/worldnews and get downvoted for trying to have a conversation. I can't even reply without just being downvoted, even though the people I respond to don't say anything back. What's the point of replying if I'm just going to get my comment hidden by downvotes? You don't want to have a conversation? You're just jumping on the bandwagon because you automatically assume I'm anti-gun because I'm posing a slightly different viewpoint, but mostly overall in agreement. It's like my fucking parents. I can agree on 95% of the conservative party issues, but when I mention a counter-point to anything, suddenly they take it out of context and they can't think for themselves because it doesn't exactly fit the Republican mold, so then I'm the moron just because I tried to see it the other way for a bit. That's critical thinking, guys. I thought it was natural to question things. It's not just you either, liberals do this too. Sorry if I offended anyone during any of this, sorry for my rant. I came here to be educated and was tired of the liberal news all over.