Obama Faces Tough Sell On Gun Control

The recent poll finds that majority of Americans support President Obama’s executive actions announced on last Tuesday, aimed at increasing gun control by the government and improving enforcement of existing laws.

“All the threats about the executive orders, that you are not going to be able to buy a gun, sell a gun yourself privately, that they want to do universal background checks, all of those kind of things, they scare people”, says Elliott.

In President Obama’s defense, Fox News reported that he did agree with Taya on promoting the “message of hope” and concurred that most cities are safer now compared to 10 or 20 years ago, but argued that people would not know it just by “watching television”.

“You’ve got about 300 million guns in the United States right now”, Harlow said.

Obama is simply governing by decree, but any action that impacts the Bill of Rights is deserving of action by the people’s representatives in Congress. “Now this president wants to act as if he is a king, as if he is a dictator…this is going to be another illegal executive action, which I’m sure will be rejected by the courts and when I become President, it will be stricken from executive action by executive action I’ll take”.

Bloomberg reports, “A study by the Department of Justice found that just 0.7 percent of state prison inmates in 1997 had purchased their weapons at a gun show”.

“The goal is keeping bad actors away from firearms”, Lynch said after the President changed the way gun sales are monitored and carried out. Both congressmen seemed eager to make political points, but failed to acknowledge that their home state’s laws are already stricter than federal law. To more completely and effectively enforce the laws that are already on the books.

So the fact that 51 percent of Republicans agreed with Obama’s gun actions, even when told that Obama was the one proposing them, is pretty significant. We still have cars; we still have pill bottles, and we will still have guns.

President Barack Obama rolled out a package of executive actions on guns this week.

Eighteen states have passed tougher gun buyer background check laws. These “new” dealers would be required to conduct background checks, which could do more to identify those who are prohibited from buying weapons.

And so might the guy who posts a gun for sale on Armslist.

We’re surprised the president didn’t go one step more and subject people who inherit a gun from a parent to a background check.

He said he’s not sure if there’s a “one-to-one correlation” between increasing gun sales and decreasing murder rates because “if you look at the where the areas are with the highest gun ownership, those are the places that the crime hasn’t dropped down that much”.

The NRA has no incentive to sit in a town hall and be lectured to by a President who thinks that they are the problem, and by extension the law-abiding gun owners the NRA represents are the problem. If we arrest someone and they have a firearm illegally, we’ll confiscate the firearm.