Clinton drew the connection to the gun rights group and murderous tyrants after a woman in the audience at a town hall meeting in Mount Vernon noted that President Obama seemed defeated during his remarks on gun control following last week’s mass shooting at Umpqua Community College in Roseburg, Ore. Even more astonishing, the rate for aggravated assault (involving a weapon) is 80 times higher in America than in Switzerland. They take a little girl to a gun range to shoot an Uzi for amusement.
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Why, then, do so many people insist that the right to gun ownership ought to take precedence over the lives of innocent people?
The proposed executive action aims to impose background checks on individuals who buy from dealers who sell a significant number of guns each year.
Among the rookie politicians doing well at this time is retired pediatric neurosurgeon Dr. Ben Carson, who is solidly in second place behind reality television star and businessman Donald Trump. With courage, we can start a movement to control guns and repeal the Second Amendment.
As gun enthusiasts and the NRA continue to scream from the rooftops after yet another mass shooting, that it is the human being and not the gun that is the problem, their logic tends it be flawed.
“Guns are incredibly lethal”, he said. There can not be one solution because the causes of gun violence are many.
A mandatory buy-back program, along the lines of Australia’s highly successful ban on shotguns and semiautomatic and automatic rifles, could be effective in reducing the number of firearms. There are over 300 million guns in circulation, and the president feels powerless when it comes to gun control. The government seized at least 650,000 guns – about one in five guns in civilian hands at the time.
Such a move would effectively rewrite the ATF’s definition of firearm businessmen, and has been vetted by White House lawyers as within the president’s executive authority and not reliant on congressional approval, according to The Washington Post.
The Obama Administration ultimately opted against implementing the proposal on the grounds they could face potential lawsuits challenging the legality of the president’s executive order. Rather, we all suffer from a culture that increasingly values domination over cooperation, intimidation over nurturance, violence over life.
While Trump has a concealed carry permit and mouthed the right platitudes recently, he’s also embraced universal background checks, waiting periods, and bans on certain kinds of firearms in the past.
And if it’s a political argument you’re offering – and when hasn’t it been? – you’ll need more than the vacuousness of “this is bad, so we have to do something”. It was only a week ago when a gunman killed nine people at Umpqua Community College in Oregon.
“We need action, and I call on my colleagues to bring the background checks bill to the floor for a vote!” Dylann Roof, the young man who allegedly killed 9 people at a church in Charleston, S.C.in June, passed a background check despite his arrest on a narcotics charge.
“You purchase robbed weapons or do-it-yourself weapons on any block corner”.
The headline for Rappeport’s story on the paper’s home page today reiterated that gloss: “Gun Rights More Sacred Than Spilled Blood, Carson Says”.
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Current law exempts anyone who occasionally sells guns for personal reasons, such as enhancement of their collection or as a hobby, from the requirement to obtain a federal license and perform background checks. Most gang shooters and other criminals now get their guns illegally and easily, and the chief achievement of tightening up laws would likely be to convert the holdouts to the same procedure.
