President Barack Obama plans to meet tomorrow with Attorney General Loretta Lynch to discuss what actions he can take to reduce gun violence.
If you are one of them, I need your help, “Obama said in a weekly address“.
Obama has simply charged his staff to work around Congress. But executive orders that would cause real reform, like universal background checks (a background check for each gun sale), which 90% of the country – including gun owners – want, still require congressional approval. Currently, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives is only required to investigate a gun theft if 10 or more guns are stolen and one of them is used in a crime. It would also nearly certainly prompt lawsuits by gun advocates claiming the president lacks the authority to change the legal definition of who must obtain a dealer’s license. He’s promised to take a similar approach to gun control.
And Huckabee said Republicans in congress should do something, now, to stop Obama’s executive orders. Challengers sued and won an injunction that blocked the move.
“The administration has not communicated with us, and we have not been briefed”.
“We should build, like, institutions for people that are sickos”, said the businessman, who leads Christie and his other 10 rivals for the GOP nomination in the national polls.
Democratic front-runner Hillary Clinton said Sunday she’s “especially concerned (about 2016) because I know what a Republican president would mean”.
In his radio address, Obama said tens of thousands of people have died from gun violence since background check legislation stalled three years ago.
The president singled out gun control as a priority, saying federal efforts to limit violence had been stifled by a gun lobby that wields more power in Congress than public opinion warrants.
The White House will decide within a few months whether Obama marks his final year in office with a trip to communist Cuba, which has been under a US trade embargo for more than 50 years.
Lawmakers could still try to block such ATF rulemaking by denying the agency funding, particularly funds for enforcing the rule if it was passed in the face of congressional opposition.
Obama will take questions from the audience.
Cory Luetgen, gun owner: “But, with that being said, I think that you should be able to sell and buy whatever you want”, said Cory Luetgen, who’s visiting family in the region.
“So, he’s going to sign another executive order having to do with the Second Amendment”, said Republican Presidential Candidate Donald Trump.
The Second Amendment reads “a well regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed”.
Although the White House has not spelled out his plans specifically, they are expected to include measures that would require more gun sellers to become licensed dealers and conduct background checks on buyers.
The problem escalates when guns are so plentiful within an nearly wild-west environment; seeking a solution is not far from attempting to give an exact number of celestial bodies in the universe.