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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Charles Bartlett what I am saying is simple math. Dennis above asserts that America, with all its guns and citizens constitutes the world’s largest standing army. Since China has an army larger than our population I assumed he must be using CORE….SMH
I am not worried about China if they were to invade end game!!. My concern is Isis and to me that will be much harder indever, two tours VetNam 66-68 forced to fight for there freedom. I am 70 more than willing to die defending the freedom of this nation! And i am not alone,those not willing to stand with us best stand aside. Understand i am not trying to come off as a bad$#%&!@*but feedom is worth dieing fo.
Louise ,you are speaking out of your a##,not all gun shows and private sellers are required to perform background checks ,look it up ,some states dont require it ,thats why the president calls it a loophole ,they need to enforce this with all sellers of guns ,period ….and by the way the president is not trying to take away anybodys guns ,that is total BS,republican s trying to put fear out there ,crock of$#%&!@* Befor you people start a conversation on this topic ,ck your F’N FACTS! Oh by the way if you dont like this country ,G.T.F.O.
I find it amazing that our first black president doesn’t appreciate that the root of almost every gun control law and policy originates with Jim Crow to keep arms from blacks.
“Freedom from enslavement!, and the FREEDOM to pray!.”
“The end of slavery and The Evil Confederate Flag and the Evil Separation of Church and State!.”
Executive orders are only suppose to be used for clarification, not to make laws which is how Obama wants to use them. Most every executive orders he has signed is unconstitutional. He wants to be the only one in charge of making laws.
For the idiots who think the number of executive orders outweighs the impact af any one order I say to u
It ain’t golf or basketball. And for the final time………we are against him because he is a radical anti American socialist, Marxist, state at. Everything he does is to that end so……..yes, we are totally against him and he needs to fail at transforming America into a third world country.
And we didn’t win nam because Washington wouldn’t turn us loose on those gooks.