In that time, his comments on guns have evolved markedly, from “thoughts and prayers” offered in the wake of a 2009 shooting in Binghamton, N.Y., to expressions of healing, anger, and finally, calls for political action on gun control.
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“I would use executive authority to go as far as would be possible under the law and I applaud the president for taking a hard look at that and I believe he will take some actions to require more gun sellers to do background checks”, Clinton said.
Now all of these side-hustle gun sellers are required to do the same background checks on their customers as Wal-Mart, Target or Gander Mountain.
Sen. Pat Toomey, who faces a tough reelection race in blue-leaning Pennsylvania, said that while he still needs more information about the president’s regulatory moves, “the most appropriate way for handling firearm issues is when Congress and the President work together”.
Corey Lewandowski, campaign manager for presidential candidate Donald Trump, stopped by CNN to talk to Jake Tapper about Trump’s denouncement of President Obama’s executive order on gun control and things got heated very quickly. “As he prepares to leave the scene in a year, he wants to leave his mark”.
Just after President Barack Obama finished delivering his address regarding his new executive action on gun laws in the nation, lawmakers from Idaho and Wyoming are reacting to his plan. After that, the President was focused on getting reelected in 2012.
“I think the action is narrow, sensible and reasonable”, Rep. Lloyd Doggett (D-Texas) of Austin told KVUE, arguing the action is narrow enough to survive any legal challenge.
President Barack Obama’s Tuesday gun-control announcement drew passionate reactions from virtually the entire 2016 presidential field.
“The measures announced today, and others being taken in Virginia and communities around the country, are important steps to promote public safety, prevent gun violence, and keep guns away from criminals and other unsafe people”.
“If a child can’t open a bottle of aspirin, we should make sure that they can’t pull a trigger on a gun”.
He struck a similar note after the shootings in Aurora, Colo., stressing the importance of remembering the victims. “It’s not going to keep every gun out of the hands of a criminal”, he said Monday. “These tragedies must end”.
“It will still take an act of Congress to close the gun show and Internet loopholes once and for all and to require background checks for all commercial gun sales nationwide”, he added.
Theresa O’Rourke of Downers Grove, Illinois, said she hopes Obama’s action will deter illegal transactions that have deadly consequences.
To note: In 2013, there were 33,636 gun violence deaths. “Chicago has some of the toughest gun laws in the country and is known as the murder capital of the U.S”. Finally, Obama committed the federal government to undertaking research on how to make legally purchased guns safer.
Some 85 percent of Americans – including large majorities of Democrats (88 percent) and Republicans (79 percent) – favor expanded background checks, according to an August 2015 Pew report.
Soaring gun sales after flashpoint incidents are a regular occurrence nationally. While I too want a decrease in unlawful shootings and violent crimes, I will not waver in my support of law-abiding American citizens’ Second Amendment rights.
Kicking off his previous year in the White House with a defiant show of executive power, Obama will ignore Congressional opposition and take a series of unilateral steps to regulate gun sales and curb illicit purchases.
President Obama used his executive order Tuesday to mandate new regulations.
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The store was packed Tuesday afternoon.
