Jewish groups praised new executive actions by President Barack Obama to reduce gun violence.
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“If we can change the ways that people can get guns so easily, it will certainly make things easier for law enforcement”, he said. “But maybe we could try to stop one act of evil, one act of violence”, Obama said. White has been the owner for the past four years and said he’s dead set against those who sell at gun shows or flea markets who aren’t collecting IDs or doing background checks.
Part of Obama’s plan involves expanding background checks, beefing up existing gun laws, and improving care for the mentally ill.
Speaking in the East Room at the White House Tuesday, Obama defended his executive actions to tighten criminal background checks. “Many people will now think they are living in a safer place when the measure was completely useless”.
“It’s an issue that both (sides) are really going to want to talk about for the next couple of months, but I don’t know how much they’re going to want to talk about it in the fall”, Matthew Dowd, a former political adviser to President George W. Bush, said of the eventual presidential nominees.
Gee says, “Go right down to Hesselson’s and they’ll run it while you wait and if the person’s clear it comes back, then boom!” He said he’s had potential buyers sign forms in his store stating they weren’t convicted felons only to find that they were lying when the background check came through.
In a Twitter post Tuesday, Clinton thanked Obama “for taking a crucial step forward on gun violence”. She said many people also don’t have the proper training. “This will create a definition of who is a seller”. Cory Gardner in saying Obama was abusing his executive authority in trying to restrict gun rights.
“We keep putting more and more restrictions on our right to bear arms, not our privilege but our right”, said Thomas, “when the Second Amendment says that right shall not be infringed”. However, the move also marked a concession that he will leave office without securing new gun control laws he’s repeatedly tried to get Congress to pass. He said the bottom line was that the president’s argument is “fundamentally wrong”.
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“That is why babies are getting shot”, Myers said. Associated Press-GfK polls conducted in October and December found 58 percent of Americans favor stricter gun laws. “I will be calling on my colleagues to join me in vigorously holding the president accountable for his illegal actions, and reminding him that he is the president of the United States, not the king of it”.
