Obama’s four policies are not the beginning of a right-infringing secret plan to confiscate your guns.
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What’s happening on gun control outside Washington?
A feckless Congress and equally spineless state lawmakers have forced the President to act unilaterally through executive action to protect American interests. Just because we disagree, that doesn’t give the President the authority to go around Congress.
At least the president is doing something.
I do not want to politicize the issue of guns or abortion and that’s why I’m inviting you to step out of the political arena and invite you to step into the arena of principles and moral values.
She also said she sees it as an opportunity, “for us to show even in a red state and a pro-gun state, there are lots of us here, lots of us who own guns who think it’s out of control”.
A seat was deliberately left empty during Barack Obama’s final big speech as president where he sets out what he still wants to achieve.
In fact, whenever new gun laws are introduced, Republicans insist instead that existing gun laws need to be more vigorously enforced. And he’s disappointed that his legacy may be nothing more than the mild executive actions he unveiled this week. Virginia Republican Congressman Randy Forbes says the president is overreaching.
No so. Obama is right according to the polls I saw on NBC and MSNBC the night of January 7. “And those two things don’t have to be mutually exclusive”.
“Long-term they’re in an utterly untenable position”.
The real gun violence issue is not the mass shootings, although they naturally horrify us and get our attention, but the day-to-day carnage that occurs in inner-city neighborhoods.
The NRA is headquartered in Connolly’s district mere miles from the Capitol, which makes them his constituents – of sorts. He characterizes the relationship this way.
Does it make sense that some buyers receive a background check and others don’t? It ignores the president’s honest and compassionate feelings, reducing him to a “three-year-old”.
Opponents of gun restrictions are often the first to play the mental illness card when a massacre occurs to avoid passing constraints on guns.
Mr. Obama’s perceived lack of resolve in dealing with global terrorism should not undermine his efforts to advance reasonable gun control measures at home.
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“ATF is massively underfunded and overworked”, said Matt Bennett of Third Way, a centrist group that has worked for gun control legislation.
