“So all of us need to demand a Congress fearless enough to stand up to the gun lobby’s lies”. And because online classifieds and print classifieds work the same way, expanding executive gun control to cover the latter is simply a matter of time.
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The executive actions announced this week by President Barack Obama will not have a major impact on reducing gun violence. In more than 30 states, private sellers are not required to run background checks. These new technologies aim to minimize accidental discharges and trace lost or stolen guns.
There’s no cut-and-dry answer. It voted down a sensible measure that would have banned gun sales to people whose names appear on federal terror watch lists. People who only occasionally sell guns from their personal collections don’t have to apply for a license.
There’s no specific number of guns that triggers a requirement to register. And they have to ship to another licensed dealer. Could the ATF now prosecute my brother and me for being unlicensed firearms dealers, sending us to jail for five years and fining us each $250,000? For example, a person can be engaged in the business of dealing in firearms even if the person only conducts firearm transactions at gun shows or through the Internet. They were among an array of groups including the Reform movement’s Religious Action Center and its Central Conference of American Rabbis that praised the actions. If public awareness campaigns can reduce smoking, why not reduce gun suicides?
President Obama has announced a new effort to curb gun violence.
Keep guns out of the wrong hands with background checks.
Obama is running out of time.
A feckless Congress has forced the president to act unilaterally. But that is not going to sop bad people from getting weapons and or stop mass shootings.
The order has not officially been signed into law, but the White House is pushing ahead despite legal threats from Republicans.
But a more recent spate of gun-related atrocities, including in San Bernardino, California, spurred the administration to give the issue another look. “I think the president will repeat once again his belief in and commitment to the Second Amendment to the Constitution, and that the constitutional rights of law-abiding Americans are worth protecting, including the constitutional rights that are guaranteed by the Second Amendment to the Constitution”.
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However, the National Rifle Association said on Wednesday that it would not send official representatives to the hour-long town hall meeting, set to include pro- and anti-gun-regulation activists and to be moderated by CNN’s Anderson Cooper. “It was one of the worst days of my presidency”, Obama said, noting that he visited Newtown two days after the incident. Still, Obama’s orders are proving to be quite controversial, and the president, along with CNN, will hold a town hall on Thursday to address questions about gun control. Published reports say that was the straw that compelled Obama to go the executive action route, as limited as it might be.
