Obama faces tough sell on gun control

Taya Kyle, the widow of “American Sniper” Chris Kyle, confronted President Obama over his gun control proposals at a televised town hall Thursday – and later told Fox News that the president is only offering “false hope” on the issue of gun violence.

She argued that the administration should instead focus on giving Americans hope that they are safe and that they can choose to protect themselves.

Moreover, the president said that his proposed gun laws are not restricting law-abiding citizens from owning firearms, he just wants to keep it away from the wrong hands.

Remember that in 2008, while running for president, Obama said, “The biggest problem we’re facing right now has to do with George Bush trying to bring more and more power into the executive branch and not go through Congress at all”.

“You talk about the [National Rifle Association] and how after a mass shooting that gun sales go up”.

A gun show at the Norfolk Scope this weekend is the first in the state since President Obama announced plans for stricter gun laws. Chris Kyle was shot and killed February 2, 2013 at a firing range by a mentally disturbed U.S. Marines veteran he was helping.

Kyle added that criminals would not be stopped from getting guns even if background checks were expanded. Writing in an oped titled “Guns Are Our Shared Responsibility”, the president informs readers that “I will not campaign for, vote for or support any candidate, even in my own party, who does not support common-sense gun reform”. Thomas Jefferson said, “The constitutions of most of our States assert that all power is inherent in the people…it is their right and duty to be at all times armed”.

Thankfully, it had an injunction put on it, and this executive action may as well, because there are real questions whether this action is constitutional. “What it will do is help reduce the acts of gun violence that happen in our country”, she said.

After expressing gratitude to Kyle and her late husband for their service, Obama agreed that the reduction in violent crime is something that isn’t celebrated enough in the country. “I think we need to get back to [discovering how to] make good, whole, healthy families”. History will see him as one of the least interventionist US Presidents when it comes to using the veto or resorting to executive action.