Fincher said none of Obama’s orders would have prevented terrorist attacks from happening, nor would they have stopped criminals from getting firearms. The new federal guidance aims to narrow the so-called gun show loophole that allows some purchases to occur without a background check. “The problem is some gun sellers have been operating under a different set of rules”.
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Tears streamed down Obama s cheeks as he summoned the memory of the 20 elementary school children slaughtered three years ago in Newtown, Connecticut.
Kayla Brown, left, wears her gun on her hip while working at the Spring Guns and Ammo store. “First graders. And from every family who’d never imagined that their loved one would be taken from our lives by a bullet from a gun”. “I think it’s disgusting what he’s done”, Irvine said.
Under Obama’s executive order, all vendors who sell guns at gun shows and online would have to be licensed and thus required to check backgrounds of buyers.
The move has been criticised, however.
In an emotional speech that lasted almost 40 minutes, the president several times invoked mass shootings that have taken place in the last two decades, with special attention to the “too many” that had led him to address the nation during his presidency. But Obama defiantly rejected that critique, dismissing it as the exhausted trope of gun lobbyists who question “why bother trying?”
“The United States of America is not the only country on Earth with violent or risky people…But we are the only advanced country on Earth that sees this kind of mass violence erupt with this kind of frequency”, Obama said.
“We maybe can’t save everybody, but we could save some”. “We still do background checks no matter where we’re at”, Boerio said.
The departments of Defense, Justice and Homeland Security will review the availability of smart gun technology on a regular basis and will explore potential ways to improve gun safety.
Obama seemed to acknowledge Tuesday that his announcement would fuel the political debate over the Second Amendment.
“The U.S. Conference of Mayors has had strong policy aimed at reducing gun violence for almost 50 years and, since 1999, has repeatedly called for strengthening the background check system”. His proposals won’t do anything to keep guns out of the hands of bad guys, and to the degree that he and his Progressive colleagues would like to limit gun ownership more generally, what he’s actually doing is producing results opposite of what he says he intends.
“The President’s decisive actions today will strengthen background checks, protect communities through better enforcement, improve mental health services, and fuel research to make guns safer”, U.S. Rep. Eddie Bernice Johnson, D-Dallas, said in a statement. “His words and actions amount to a form of intimidation that undermines liberty”.
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President Barack Obama’s controversial executive actions on guns drew a positive response Tuesday from Nashville Mayor Megan Barry, who commended the president for putting forward what she called “common sense approaches” that are focused on public safety.
