Majority of Americans support next president pushing tighter gun laws

At least Obama is trying to do something, while the Republicans in both houses of Congress have refused to do anything, cowardly bowing to the bullying National Rifle Association and telling the families victimized by gun violence to suck it up. I especially despise the bad people targeting schools and innocent children.

Sharpe also said that there could be difficulties in regulating private transactions federally.

Then there’s another Wisconsin lawmaker, Rep. Jim Sensenbrenner, a Menomonee Falls Republican who couldn’t bring himself to perhaps admit that strengthening background checks was a good idea. “I think it is time to step up and make a change in how we look at guns”.

As for the substance of what Obama said, there was very little substance, and much of it false, but one of the signs of great artistry was that the presentation overshadowed the substance. On the flip side, if you are against stricter gun control laws or background checks, you are labeled a redneck with a closet full of guns. It also does not stop those who are deemed eligible under these new measures from buying a gun, and then to develop mental health problems later on and thus become ineligible.

The NRA and other gun advocates see his executive action as draconian overreach.

As for facts and statistics, the only ones likely to be mentioned by gun control zealots, including the media, are those on how many people were killed by guns. Nevertheless, on Thursday, Cruz and Rubio warned that Obama or Hillary Clinton would find a way to take everyone’s guns. Clinton has released the more detailed plan, which includes banning assault weapons, blocking domestic abusers from accessing guns, criminalizing straw purchases, strengthening inspections of gun dealers, and repealing a law that shields gun manufacturers from lawsuits. Obama asked in his speech. Some political writers call this an “imperial presidency”. The executive order may even be overturned by the courts because it is unconstitutional, according to Bierworth.

Instead, the President proposed more window dressing and red tape that will increase the burden on law-abiding citizens and infringe on their Constitutionally-protected rights. That task force included educators, law enforcement and, yes, members of Congress, including Republicans. “Just because Congress was not passing the laws that the President wished for does not give him the right to go around Congress completely and instill these policy changes”.

U.S. Senator Ted Cruz of Texas said that “Barack Obama and Chuck Schumer came after our right to keep and bear arms” by pushing for expanded background checks in 2013. “Unless you are clinically insane, you are going to say you support the Second Amendment”, he said.

New Jersey Governor Chris Christie assailed Obama’s “unconstitutional executive orders” while speaking in defense of gun rights. After all, a SOTU offers presidents the opportunity to make pretty much any claim they want with no opportunity for timely rebuttals, so it’s practically designed for the kind of demagoguery Obama routinely deploys on this subject.

Considering where the Republican debate is taking place – in North Charleston, S.C., the site of the church shooting in which nine people were massacred – it was no surprise that the candidates faced a series of questions on their views on gun control.