But Christian psychiatrist Dr. Karl Benzio says merely expanding background checks, as President Obama is doing via executive fiat, wouldn’t have stopped Lanza because he hadn’t seen a mental health professional. “That’s the same thing we can do with gun ownership”, he concluded.
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Lemons said he’s most concerned that the Obama administration is ordering his department to confiscate weapons from people who have obtained them legally, but it doesn’t appear as if the executives action specifically addresses confiscation.
But according to Smartgunlaws.org, Colorado already has some of the most strict gun laws. It is the President’s job to enforce those laws.
Kyle’s appearance at the President’s town hall hosted by CNN will likely offer diversity to President Obama’s pro-gun control message.
But previous gun owners say they’ve noticed the increase of buyers. It’s a modest way of us getting started on improving the prospects of young men and young women like you, the same way we try to improve every other aspect of our lives. Caldwell said his son, who was home from college, had picked up a couple of friends to drive to his cousin’s baby shower.
In contrast, 57% of independents and 80% of Republicans believe that more guns leads to less crime. The President is not empowered to make up his own laws when he doesn’t like the ones Congress has written.
“It is a false notion that I believe is circulated for either political reasons or commercial reasons in order to prevent a coming together among people of goodwill to develop common-sense rules that will make us safer while preserving the Second Amendment”, Mr Obama said.
In a statement, they said: “Three years ago, FAN was a strong supporter of the bi-partisan Manchin-Toomey proposal which would have expanded background checks had it not failed in the Senate”.
Obama says the government should deem anyone “in the business” of selling guns to be a dealer, regardless of where he or she sells guns.
Thunderbird Firearms Academy owner, Ryan Pennock, who is also a member of the American Firearms Retailers Association or AFRA was there and apart of the discussion. Obama took questions from many different people, and kept composure in his responses.
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Not even 20 little school children having their bodies torn apart by hollow point bullets in the Newtown massacre was enough to motivate Congress to take action to protect the people they were elected serve. “If you look at all the mass shootings, there were in gun-free zones”.
