As the Obama Administration prepares to tighten access to guns, the President met Wednesday with former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg to help complete the executive order that would expand background checks on gun sales while closing the “gun show loophole”.
Bloomberg is only one of many gun control advocates the president has met with in recent weeks. The order, which is currently caught in a web of legal and administrative questions is currently without a timeline.
However, even as he works to chip away at another constitutional right, a new survey is showing falling support for a ban on assault weapons, which both Obama and Bloomberg are currently advocating as a means to prevent gun-related deaths. Hillary Clinton also pushed for an assault ban during a campaign speech earlier this week.
In the wake of the 2012 Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre in Connecticut, Bloomberg’s Mayors Against Illegal Guns group turned into Everytown for Gun Safety with the expectations of being able to stand against the NRA. The group spent millions, most of which came from Bloomberg’s own fortune, only to fall just short of their goals on several different occasions.
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Another war! Like the war on Christmas!
Marc Hyppolite You don’t think BLM promotes violence? You haven’t been paying attention. Wake up!
Lock and load.
I have been seeing posts like this since he was first elected President! I do not care for Obama, and I consider him a failure as a leader. However, if he was ever planning on an “Executive Order” why has he waited this long? I do not think many people know what an Executive Order will and will not accomplish, and also just how easy it is for the next President to eliminate it.
Most likely these types of posts are directed more at creating more HATE and MISTRUST in this country than actually providing accurate information. Both left and the right wing groups are very good at creating HATE and MISTRUST!
Makes you wonder if Obama has a death wish
Can’t executive order against an amendment.
screw his executive order. I dont recognize him as my president He’s not qualified to wear those big boy pants
This is a f**e web site
Marc hyppolite quick question why is it just a white thing to want to have guns and if statics are right then it would be more like young blacks want guns to kill more young blacks not white people but hey believe what u want bro.
Carol Epps I served my country I have friends who still serve that would disagree with you and just so you know I am not a Obama supporter and there are alot of military individuals who are not plus think about this if he was to do that there are alot of countries who would look at Obama as a$#%&!@*and that would make alot of this country not want to be our allies thats not good for America