McConnell said, “If the president thought there was any legislative support for what he was doing, he would try to get the Congress to approve it, so I don’t think what he’s doing is going to have any impact on the problem at all”.
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“We want to think that we can make a law and people will follow it”, Kyle said. “They can do the same amount of damage with a pipe bomb”. Never that they might want to let vulnerable victims defend themselves and their loved one. The support is also widespread and broad, including from gun owners (57 percent) and rural residents (56 percent).
“Number two, what you said about murder rates and violent crime generally is something that we don’t celebrate enough”.
Speaking at the time, Michelle had explained that she lived in a safe neighbourhood – Chicago South Side – and had activities that “engaged her” but in the end that was the difference between “growing up and becoming a lawyer, a mother and first lady of the United States, and being shot dead at the age of 15”.
Taya Kyle, the wife of “American Sniper” Chris Kyle.
Kyle went on to ask the president why he refuses to acknowledge that “we are at the lowest murder rate in our country”. “The fact of the matter is that violent crime has been steadily declining across America for a pretty long time.
If that continues, that’s the goal of this, is making sure that we have gun laws that are responsive to the wishes of the American people, not responsive to the big NRA bosses here in Washington”, McDonough said.
“They go to a gun show in IN, where right now they don’t have to do a background check”, he said, “load up a van and open up that van and sell ’em to kids and gangs in Chicago”.
But Federal law provides an exception for a person who “makes occasional sales, exchanges, or purchases of firearms for the enhancement of a personal collection or for a hobby, or who sells all or part of his personal collection of firearms”.
Appearing on Fox News yesterday, Kyle remained convinced that the President’s anti-gun stance was ignorant and self-defeating.
In an op-ed published on CNN, Kyle warned that “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”. 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. Fewer than 40 over the last decade?
The reality is that this sort of uninformed fomentation by individuals who would like to hold the highest office in the land does far more damage than good because there is absolutely, positively, without a doubt, no way the President is coming to take your guns.
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Despite years of speeches, addresses, events and a legislative push, President Obama has failed to convince the public on key gun control positions that he has advocated, according to the latest IBD/TIPP poll.
