US President Barack Obama has introduced a new gun control strategy to curb violence in the nation.
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By simply taking those actions, Obama made sure the issue would remain in the 2016 presidential campaign, where it deserves a serious debate.
“Now its nearly as polarized as abortion, there’s nearly no more pro-gun Democrats, and there’s really no pro-gun control Republicans left”, said Jeremy Mayer, an associate political professor at George Mason University.
But Allen Daniels, who is an organizer for the annual fundraiser for Shriner’s hospitals for children, said that attendees shouldn’t be afraid that their potential purchase could trigger the attention from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives.
On the one hand, President Obama’s modest initiatives to keep guns out of the wrong hands are denounced as an outlandish abuse of his executive powers. An executive order can be reversed by the president who succeeds Obama.
In Heller and then in McDonald v. City of Chicago, the Supreme Court in a pair of 5-4 decisions determined that federal, state, and local governments could not create restrictions that could prevent an individual the right to possess a firearm in the home for self-defense. Some of them would have done well to interrupt as a supremely prepared commander in chief prattled on about gun policy. “Somebody could get in trouble for selling one gun without a license”.
After the mass shooting at an OR community college, Obama said, “States with the most gun laws tend to have the fewest gun deaths”.
“We certainly are looking forward to having the opportunity to engage in that discussion with people who are interested in participating in it”, he said.
There is good reason to insist that substantive changes in gun regulation go through Congress – even if those changes are to close loopholes in existing law, or to carry out the will of the majority of the people. “Ninety Americans, and not just in the “hood but everywhere, 90 Americans die every day in this country due to gun violence”, added the Chi-Raq director, who addressed the issue and consequences of gun violence in the film based in part on Aristophanes” Lysistrata.
“There are a lot of people who don’t understand the process”, said gunsmith Jesse Newell of Bar None Tactical LLC near Interstate 65 in Mobile.
“When the law was passed in 1968, it said ‘requirements for dealers, ‘” said Liston Matthews, a longtime, local gun rights activist.
Part of a concerted White House push to promote the effort, the town hall attracted a number of high-profile figured in the gun debate, including former Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, who was shot in 2011. “Time will tell”, he said, noting that simply putting a spotlight on these sellers should also have “some deterrent effect”.
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President Obama was long on platitudes and short on specifics at Tuesday’s emotional gun-control press conference. So will giving $500 million to mental health services aimed at keeping guns away from people determined to hurt themselves or others. “It’s much more casual transactions involving acquaintances, family members, street sources”, Cook said. Their amendment would have required background checks on all commercial gun sales. “Put them in jail, no parole”. “I wonder if they would trust that arrangement. And to end them, we must change”. “There was very little dealing going on among strangers”. The gun show is the same thing. It’s extremely hard to track the movement of guns between their sale by a licensed dealer and the moment they are recovered at a crime scene or from someone not legally allowed to own them.
