But one issue that has haunted him is gun control reform, as there have been several mass shootings that have taken the lives of innocent adults and children under his presidency.
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A North Texas sheriff says he won’t enforce some provisions of new federal gun rules, particularly those included in White House executive orders handed down by the president last week.
When confronted by Taya Kyle, widow of American Sniper Chris Kyle, Obama nodded his head in agreement when she explained “while you’ve been president, we are at the lowest murder rate in our country, all time low of murders”.
At the twon hall event, President Barack Obama addressed questions from gun rights supporters disputing critics who suggest gun control laws are not worthwhile because they won’t prevent every death. She criticized his newly announced executive actions expanding background checks and spoke about the importance of self-defense. “We don’t know when we will get them, don’t know we will get them”, Richard Le Royal says.
Congressman Brad Ashford says President Barack Obama didn’t make any new law in his series of executive orders issued in wake of recent mass shootings.
“All of us can agree that it makes sense to do everything we can to keep guns out of the hands of people who would do others harm, or themselves harm”, he said at the time. “I think at the end of the day we all just feel very passionately but we’re all on the same page”.
“We’re all on the same page”, he said.
“We have slipped into a land of government that has promised the moon, seldom delivered and driven us into a world of more laws, more government, and less freedom – and none of that has stopped murder, pain and suffering”, she wrote.
I am a survivor of gun violence, so I take allowing everybody -the stable and the unstable-the right to own guns. Obama also wants to spend $500 million to increase access to mental health services, and for the U.S Department of Justice to research gun safety technology.
Have you ever noticed how these gun zealots can so aggressively define and fight for their Constitutional right to own guns-as many as they want and from whatever source they wish to come by them-without restrictions as simple as having a background check or registering a gun?
But he challenged that the reason for the decline in murder rates was higher gun ownership saying, “If you look at where are the areas with the highest gun ownership, those are the places in some cases where the crime rate hasn’t dropped down that much”.
“Why not celebrate where we are?” she asked.
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On top of passing the background check, here in Colorado, you have to be 18 or older to buy a rifle or shot gun.
