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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Lol
Civil war??? Equals martial law.
Pass your lame executive order. Best advocate for Trump as president possible.
Iam keepn mine
Remember – he’s in a catch 22 here – he’s not doing this to punish anyone – I truly believe he is trying to make sure EVERYONE keeps their rights and remain safe. Sigh – no matter what he does people are going to not like it and make him a monster. Call me naive but that would be incorrect. Put your self in his shoes and not assume Trump “would have done it better”. These are men here – just like everyone else. Obama is not out to GET anyone or rob you of your liberties.
Much of early 21st century war on firearms is reminiscent of the war on spanking in the 1980s and 1990s, and the war on alcohol at the turn of the 20th century.
In each case, those issues have been driven by a radicalized and highly vocal feminist agenda that failed to:
* appreciate their minority status.
* provide a viable alternative to the prohibition.
To date, much like the conservative’s failed war on drugs — actually little more than a repeat of Prohibition, howbeit from the opposite end of the political spectrum — each war-on-________ has, in the end:
* failed to achieve its intended objective.
* created thoroughly undesirable societal consequences.
Bottom line: What people have done over time ends to survive efforts to eradicate it.
An executive order with the stated intended of end-arounding elected representative who theoretically represent the people is an attack on liberty. One individual regardless of political party affiliation who thinks he knows better than the people. Our system as flawed as it may be isn’t a monarchy.
Ronald Reagan signed almost twice as many executive orders as Obama. Look it up.
I love this false argument that the 2nd Amendment is meant for states and not the individual. Only the X Amendment in the Bill of Rights is for the protection of states. All other Amendments limit the power of government (federal, state, and/or local) and protect the liberty of the individual. If you don’t believe this as truth read the Federalist Papers, the Articles of Confederation, and the other numerous writings of the Constitutions and country’s founding fathers.
Ronald Reagan signed almost twice as many executive orders as Obama and backed the first “assault weapons” ban. But he is the rights God. Smh