http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2013/01/impeach-obama-guns-edwin-meese.php

Ed Meese is back in the limelight, in all his goofy glory.

The former Reagan administration attorney general says President Obama could face impeachment if he choose the executive order route in implementing tighter gun regulations in the wake of the Newtown, Conn., massacre on Dec. 14. You’ve heard of that one, right? It left 20 children and six teachers dead, along with the shooter, who began his rampage by killing his mother.

The president wants something done about gun violence and he’s getting the usual pushback from the National Rifle Association and other gun-rights groups. They think any measure to tighten restrictions would violate the Second Amendment guarantee of gun ownership. I am quite sure Barack Obama has said he intends to honor the Second Amendment by allowing responsible gun owners to keep their firearms. His intent is to make it more difficult for lunatics to acquire them.

Meese says the Congress ought to explore impeaching the president if it determines he has violated the Constitution. Meese is the latest conservative to make such a claim. The looniest call for impeachment came from congressional new guy Steve Stockman, an East Texas Republican who’s back in the House of Representatives after losing his his bid for re-election way back in 1996. He had represented the Gulf Coast for a single term after defeating the late legendary Democrat Jack Brooks in the 1994 Contract With American GOP wipeout. Stockman did not distinguish himself and was drummed out two years later.

Stockman won election to a newly drawn district not far from his old one. And now this loudmouth is talking about impeaching the president whose intent is to protect children from madmen like the one who opened fire with an assault rifle in the Newtown elementary school classroom.

I’ll ask it again: Isn’t there some compromise to be found that tightens the rules for owning guns while honoring the Second Amendment?

I prefer the wisdom of two renowned combat veterans, former four-star Army Gens. Colin Powell and Stanley McChrystal, who in recent days have said that the type of weapon used in Newtown should be used exclusively on the battlefield.