President Obama knows that Congress will tie itself up in knots arguing over taking an action supported by most Americans.
So he’s taking executive action to do the right thing by tightening background check requirements on individuals seeking to purchase a firearm.
Wait for it. The shills on the right are going to start yammering any day now that the president is seeking to “disarm law-abiding Americans” by denying them their “constitutional right to keep and bear arms.”
What utter horse dookey.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/01/03/obama-executive-action-guns_n_4537752.html?ncid=txtlnkushpmg00000037
One change clarifies the definition of someone who has been “involuntary” committed to outpatient or inpatient treatment for mental disease. Another change allows the submission of information about individuals seeking to purchase a firearm, but doesn’t prohibit someone from buying a firearm if he or she has undergone treatment.
None of this is ham-handed. Nor does it do a single thing to prohibit any reasonable individual from buying a firearm. It seeks to clarify some confusing language in existing federal law.
However, these kinds of actions usually produce a firestorm of criticism from those who believe any reasonable restriction or effort to keep guns out of the hands of individuals who shouldn’t own them as an infringement on everyone’s rights.
Those folks are in the minority in this country. Most Americans support stricter background checks that would not inhibit their rights under the Second Amendment to the Constitution.
If our elected representatives won’t do the right thing, then it falls on our elected head of state and government — the president of the United States — to step up.
Go for it, Mr. President.
And will you support a conservative president making what amounts to legislative changes also?
I think the changes proposed are minor but shouldn’t actual changes in the law come from Congress?
The Constitution gives the president executive authority, which he has used. I will point out, too, that Barack Obama has used his executive authority less than any of his immediate predecessors, such as GW Bush and Bill Clinton. Thanks for your comments.
Wish he’d be as adamant about repealing Obamacare! That’s another idea most Americans are now behind!!
Yeah, that’ll happen, my good man.
Where do you get your stitistics of what most Americans want?
I just make ’em up. Pull ’em out of thin air.