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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Richard Menard if that’s all you think about then that what you are
Carol Epps you don’t appear to be a scholar to me you are one of the most dangerous species on the plant. The person that thinks they are intelligent but to stupid to understand.
Having well armed American citizens is a proven deterant to crime and tyranny…… proven. Believing members of the democratic communist party wants to disarm the American people is also logical. They have not only vocalized their will to do do they have taken step to try to. Right now the democratic communist party has a bill to be voted on that would put the average Americans ability to defend themselves back over 100 years while doing nothing to stop any of abilities for a criminal to kill innocent people. No this will not pass but I will never forgive the democratic communist party for trying. They are done.
Having well armed American citizens is a proven deterant to crime and tyranny…… proven. Believing members of the democratic communist party wants to disarm the American people is also logical. They have not only vocalized their will to do do they have taken step to try to. Right now the democratic communist party has a bill to be voted on that would put the average Americans ability to defend themselves back over 100 years while doing nothing to stop any of abilities for a criminal to kill innocent people. No this will not pass but I will never forgive the democratic communist party for trying. They are done
Executive Order this Oidiot.
I have read alot of responses on here, I think most are missing the solution to the problem. Tough talk on a Web site won’t resolve fears or concerns, but a few hundred people showing up at a congress persons office and making your voice heard will. If the political parties don’t fear the people we will continue down this path, recall them, vote them out of office, if enough are taken out of office by the will of the people, the rest will remember who they work for.
You know when it comes to guns you can fool some people all of the time and the NRA and Gun Industry is doing a great job!
We’ll shoot the drones down
He needs to be impeached! This guy has no idea what the majority wants. There’s never been a president more out of touch with his own people EVER!!!!
Gun up!!!