So Obama is beefing up the background-check system-directing more money and manpower to weed out the criminals and mentally ill.
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Yesterday, I discussed President Obama’s gun control pep rally – at which he employed characteristicallydeceitful and demagogic rhetoric – on Fox News with my frequent liberal sparring partner Julie Roginsky. The federal government will also dedicate $4 million to enhance the National Integrated Ballistics Information Network, and the administration has proposed a new $500 million investment in improved mental health care services.
Schorer wonders why Obama is trying to tighten gun restrictions via executive order, instead of working with Congress.
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Republicans in Congress have been unspeakably and indefensibly reluctant to do anything about reining in access to guns in this country in the face of rising gun violence.
The findings: medical expenses, court costs, police investigations, prison for perpetrators, lost wages for victims and other economic impacts of firearm violence add up to $229 billion a year, or about $700 per person. And none of these orders do anything that even resembles taking a gun away from a lawful owner, or even banning a particular weapon from being sold.
He told a teen from Chicago: “This is not a proposal to solve every problem”.
And the costs wouldn’t be very high. In particular, Congress blocked his attempt to legislate stricter gun laws in 2013 following the Sandy Hook deaths, leaving the White House to resort to a set of executive actions at that time that fell far short of what lawmakers could have enacted. According to William Vizzard, a criminal justice professor at California State University Sacramento who worked for 27 years as an agent of the ATF, it won’t come at a notable cost to American taxpayers.
When CNN played the clip of Obama shedding tears during a White House speech this week over the deaths of elementary-school children in Newtown, Connecticut, five years ago, Obama admitted he surprised himself with the show of emotion. That, to me, means getting at the local level. President Obama anticipates that these measures will keep firearms from falling into the wrong hands. Gun manufacturer Smith & Wesson (SWHC – Get Report) gained 11%, and competitor Sturm, Ruger & Company (RGR – Get Report) climbed almost 7%.
And every time the President announces new executive measures, he faces claims of political overreach from opponents while gun sales tend to surge. Headlines touted Obama as the “best gun salesman” on earth.
The action began when Mark Kelly, the husband of former Arizona congresswoman and gun violence survivor Gabrielle Giffords, talked about the reaction to testimony he gave to Congress supporting the expansion of background checks.
After all, we can’t have federal authorities impeding felons from buying guns on the Internet, can we? When would I have started on this enterprise?”Obama defended his support for the constitutional right to gun ownership while arguing it was consistent with his efforts to curb mass shootings”.
While Clinton was in office, the number of licenses decreased dramatically to under 70,000 by 2000 from about 250,000 in 1992.
The changes to the background check would be aimed at some unregistered sellers who skirt the requirement by selling at gun shows, online or informal settings. In other words, the definition of engaged in the business might be broader.
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“I’d like to have an opportunity to sit down, and be a part of the decision making”, said Ryan Pennock, the owner of Thunderbird Tactical Inc of Wichita, Kansas. “Personally, I am happy that the gun show sales by private dealers will change in that they will have to do background checks”.
