“That’s an infringement on Second Amendments rights”. At the 2004 Democratic National Convention, when he was a candidate for the Senate, Mr Obama famously said “there’s not a liberal America and a conservative America; there’s the United States of America”. “He doesn’t want to get rid of criminals”. This is the proposal they’ve spent seven years putting together?
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To lend a personal face to the issue, the White House assembled a cross-section of Americans whose lives were altered by the nation’s most searing recent gun tragedies, including former Rep. Gabrielle Giffords and relatives of victims from Charleston, South Carolina, at Virginia Tech.
With the new initiatives, the White House is seeking to keep guns out of the wrong hands through background checks, as well as to increase mental health treatment and reporting to the same background check system. But Obama defiantly rejected that critique, dismissing it as the exhausted trope of gun lobbyists who question “why bother trying?” “This week, he will”, the blog stated. It is tragic that our elected officials in Congress could not pass what are, in effect, very basic gun laws.
“We are going to do everything that we can to ensure the smart and effective enforcement of gun safety laws that are already on the books, which means that we are going to add 200 more ATF (Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms) agents and investigators”.
Holt began: “President Obama in an emotional over-half-hour-long address announcing executive actions to further his goal toward gun control, working essentially around Congress…at one point fighting back tears, the tears actually flowing as he went down the litany of the various mass shootings that have occurred around the country over the last several years”. A 2013 investigation by that group’s predecessor, Mayors Against Illegal Guns, found that more than 3 percent of potential buyers on Armslist had criminal records that would bar them from owning firearms. “I get it. This is not a plot to take away everybody’s guns”. The administration is also attempting to close a loophole that sometimes occurs with acquiring risky weapons through a trust or corporation, mandating a background check for these purchases as well.
He feels the better approach to reducing violence would be to teach people more about guns and how to use them so responsible citizens could help stop mass shootings and other crimes.
The FBI also said that Black Fridays from 2012 to 2014 also were among the bureau’s “top 10” days of most background checks. Obama would devote $500 million more in federal funding to treating mental illness – a move that could need congressional approval – and require that firearms lost in transit between a manufacturer and a seller be reported to federal authorities. “Just thinking about it makes me tear up”, Valerie Jarrett, a senior adviser to Obama, said on MSNBC. “He has been great for business”, said Smith.
“It was exhilarating, a little bit nerve-wracking but the amount of responsibility that comes over you when you start learning how to shoot a gun…”
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Inhofe said, “The big thing is defining a dealer as someone, and I’ve heard the figure of two – if you make two gun sales a year you are a dealer – well I make more than that”. “They have already tried and done everything regarding gun control”, said Sam Paredes, executive director of Gun Owners of California. “It’s not part of the act that Congress has passed, and he’s going to have a hard time defending that in court”.
