In one of his last gasp efforts to “fundamentally change” America, President Obama is taking executive action – because he knows he never would get Congress to agree – to keep guns out of the hands of people he claims should not have them.
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However, views on gun control are likely shaped more by politics than by spiritual convictions, because religious texts offer unclear messages about how firearms should be regulated, noted Russell Moore, president of the Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission of the Southern Baptist Convention, in a blog.
“People are going to get guns no matter what”, Horton said.
The president doesn’t get to legislate from the Oval Office and call it “executive action”.
And we know that our State Police show up at gun stores when a fugitive from justice tries to – and is blocked from – buying a gun.
That’s one issue that District Attorney General Tony Clark said he fully supports, but he doesn’t think other parts of the president’s orders will have an effect on gun crime. Once again, states are doing what Washington won’t – passing new legislation focused on today’s needs, not relying on yesterday’s laws.
“The people who are murdering are breaking the law, but they also don’t have the moral code that we have”.
Americans, with their defining cult of the individual over the collective, evermore believe they must look to themselves because government and law enforcement can not protect the citizenry, even as the arming-up guarantees an exponential growth in gun violence.
Ignoring the fact that a culture which glorifies violence in movies, video games and gangsta lyrics has created a raft of people so deranged they decide to join in for real, Obama’s decided it’s time to do something about guns.
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Let’s be clear. Despite all the political noise it generated, President Obama’s executive action last week will have a very limited impact on gun sales or gun ownership in this country. But not many here think that criminals would go about buying a gun the legal way. In his tearful announcement, Obama said his action would expand the number of sales subject to background checks. We have guns everywhere, but it is precisely the failed Democratic cities that are known for their nightly gang violence. If I sell a gun to someone, who am I selling it to? Simply, if you’re making a living selling guns, you should be running background checks. So why did it take this executive order to fund more mental health treatment and to include information in the background check system about those who are prohibited from possessing a firearm for mental health reasons? We deserve to treat them gingerly. They complain that they would only have one question, they complain that it would be pre-screened, but, as you saw, Brian, as I saw, and as the country saw, people who oppose President Obama’s gun agenda were able to stand up there right in front of him and press their points with the President.
