“The gun law might be holding Congress hostage right now but they can not hold America hostage”.
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“We penalize the good people”, he said. The president underscored that the measures will not violate USA citizens’ constitutional right to bear and keep arms.
“I don’t think any of the things that he did today are going to stop what happened then”, said Bowman. The appearance came two weeks after a gunman killed two people with a legally purchased gun at a screening of her movie, “Trainwreck”.
Obama’s fight will continue, with Republicans in Congress saying the executive actions will be challenged in court and overturned by a Republican president.
Gun advocates are reacting to President Obama’s executive order on gun control.
“The problem is when President Obama doesn’t get what he wants”.
The president wiped away tears as he remembered the young victims of the shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary school and assured the country, and gun owners, that his actions are not meant to take away guns or diminish the second amendment. He paid tribute to the parents, some of whom gathered for the ceremony, who he said had never imagined their child’s life would be cut short by a bullet.
His executive action requires background checks for many more gun sales.
“The centerpiece of Obama’s plan is an attempt to narrow the loophole that exempts gun sales from background checks if the seller isn’t a federal registered dealer”. But sellers can skirt that requirement by declining to register as dealers at gun shows, flea markets and on websites.
The president’s next budget will include funding for 200 more Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) agents to enforce gun laws, said the White House.
Rosenthal was in the room as the president announced his executive gun control order Tuesday. “The FBI will hire more than 230 additional examiners and other staff to help process these background checks”.
Although the gun measures Obama outlined are modest, he may have succeeded in what he said he wanted to do in the wake of a mass shooting in Roseburg, Ore., three months ago: politicize the issue of guns so that it becomes a prominent issue ahead of the 2016 election.
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The National Rifle Association, though, blasted the move, tweeting out that the actions wouldn’t improve public safety.
