As you’re probably aware of by now, President Obama hosted a town hall last night on the campus of George Mason University to try and peddle his gun control executive orders to the rest of America. NRA Executive Vice President Wayne LaPierre has been predicting that Obama will go after the guns of law-abiding Americans since the 2008 presidential campaign.
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Obama later appeared on CNN in a town-hall style forum to challenge critics who he said have “mischaracterised” his position.
In a statement posted on CNN’s website, Andrew Arulanandam, an NRA spokesman, said, “The National Rifle Association sees no reason to participate in a public relations spectacle orchestrated by the White House”. The San Bernardino shooters who murdered 14 people at a holiday event did not have criminal backgrounds … until they opened fire. And NRA recognizes that the “smart guns” issue clearly has the potential to mesh with the anti-gunner’s agenda, opening the door to a ban on all guns that do not possess the government-required technology.
The Times published the essay just before Obama was scheduled to take questions at a televised town hall meeting on gun violence. But she said he also wanted to begin a broader conversation about what he views as the need for more gun regulations.
Failed attempts to develop and market “smart guns” have been going on for years.
President Obama will discuss guns in the USA with Cooper and take questions from the audience on the issue.
Kyle said she did not believe any of the recent mass shootings “would have been stopped by a background check”.
“I want to be clear”, he said.
Why this matters: Gun advocates often say that the problem with gun violence is not access to weapons, but mental illness. Never mind the fact that Obama – not the tear-mocking blowhards – is the one who, over his years in office, has met with and consoled families who’ve lost loved ones to mass shootings.
Not really doing anything or, as Cruz and other GOP presidential candidates would put it, “THEY’RE COMIN’ TO TAKE YER GUNS!!” You’re in a bad place when you watch tragedies unfold and accept them as some inescapable fact of life, as the price others have to pay for your perception of freedom.
Obama’s broadside against the NRA came two days after unveiling a package of executive actions aimed at keeping guns from people who shouldn’t have them. That charge would have disqualified him from purchasing a gun if examiners from the FBI-run National Instant Criminal Background Check System, or NICS, had processed his application in time to catch it. Instead, the three-day waiting period imposed on firearms dealers in the US expired without a decision, which meant that under federal law Roof was allowed to buy the.45-caliber Glock 41 he used to kill eight parishioners and the church’s pastor, state Sen.
The plan has drawn intense criticism from gun rights groups that have accused the president of trampling on the Second Amendment and railroading Congress by taking action on his own without new laws.
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Babeu reminded Obama that both he and the president swore an oath to uphold the Constitution of the United States and that guns are enumerated for protection in that document, while the toys and aspirin that Obama had referred to earlier are not.
