But the overall effect on violence in the US could prove to be modest.
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Powell says, “It’s not like he said he’s going to limit a certain type of firearm or a certain magazine capacity”.
Obama senior adviser Valerie Jarrett said during the call that 300,000 people who die each year from gun violence aren’t only victims of highly publicized mass shootings.
“We still hold out hope the Congress will understand they need to do something”, she said, but added that the most effective route now seemed to be to advance background checks and gun trafficking on the state level.
“He didn’t say much more, but people are so fearful of what he defined as ‘common sense, ‘” said Bastean.
We thank President Obama for standing up to the Gun Lobby and call on Congress to take meaningful action to protect American lives.
“Second Amendment rights (to bear arms) are important, but there are other rights that we care about as well”.
McGowan says, while it’s illegal for a person to buy a gun after having been involuntarily committed for emergency mental health treatment under the Baker Act, there are people who slip through the cracks.
“I don’t think it’s going to make any difference”. That doesn’t happen. They get them either illegally or they steal them, so laws apply to law abiding citizens.
Warren, though, said more needs to be done. “They’re so fearful that he is going to restrict their rights”.
I have no doubt that the President’s actions will face significant opposition in the courts, just as the courts have issued a preliminary injunction halting the President’s executive amnesty. “I have fought the president’s liberal gun control agenda tooth and nail, and I won’t back down now”. On Monday, Obama called for more resources to bolster the effectiveness of background checks.
The White House did not set a threshold for the number of guns someone has to sell to be covered by the licensing and background check requirement. They hide behind simplistic logic that the answer to a plague of gun violence is even more guns carried by more people.
Private sales have increasingly gone online over the last decade, but precise data is hard to pin down.
“Sure, I regret it every day, but it was the right decision for my family and for me, and I plan on staying deeply involved”, Mr. Biden told a Connecticut NBC affiliate this week.
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Referring to the recent cooperation shown by Republican Congressional leaders Mitch McConnell and Paul Ryan on the Omnibus budget bill and Import-Export bank, Representative Castro was optimistic that Republicans could support new proposals for gun control.
