Are Obama’s Gun Control Actions Good Ones?

The president’s orders, which clearly violate the Second Amendment which he seems to abhor more than guns, will nearly certainly be contested in the courts, and are likely to reach the U.S. Supreme Court for a final decision.

The relevant portion of the transcript from CNN’s Guns in America: Obama Town Hall on January 7 can be found below.

Hundreds of thousands of legally purchased and illegally transported guns move from the United States into Mexico each year, according to both governments, and make up the majority of firearms confiscated from crime scenes here. The New Jersey Institute of Technology has already patented such technology, but the Institute’s Bill Marshall says no gun maker’s been interested.

Taya Kyle, the wife of Chris Kyle, the famed Navy SEAL american sniper spoke during the meeting to President Obama. Several NRA members were in the audience for the event, which was organised and hosted by CNN. Unfortunately, until the nation’s politics catch up to public opinion on guns, the scourge of this nation’s gun violence will continue to shed the tears many more Americans than just the president.

The president’s order expands the enforcement of background check laws to private and online dealers that sell firearms, initiates an overhaul of the FBI’s background check system, and includes a proposal for increased investment in mental health care, among other things. “Nothing”, said Felicia Thomas, Reed’s mother.

But on gun control, he can’t even pick a fight.

“While these actions are much needed, they alone are not enough”, Foster said. More recent data showed Americans backed Obama’s intiatives but didn’t believe they would work.

Critics accuse Obama of infringing on their constitutional right to bear arms.

“Somehow this has become routine”, Obama said after an October rampage at Umpqua Community College in Oregon. He is not tampering with the Second Amendment or violating any other parts of the Constitution. “I don’t know when would i have started on this enterprise”, Obama said. Obama’s proposals to tighten gun cont…

It took Anderson Cooper’s prodding about the amorphous sense of gun-rights advocates that Obama’s true intent is to ultimately take people’s guns away for the President to drop his professorial persona and turn angry.

The most contentious moment of the night came after a question from Mark Kelly, the former astronaut husband of former U.S. Rep. Gabby Giffords, D-Ariz., who was shot in the head at a 2011 political event.

During Tuesday’s address from the White House, Obama denounced the argument that expanding background checks for gun buyers is not an effective way to prevent mass shootings.

Cooper jumped in, asking: “Is fair to call it a conspiracy?”

In a primetime, televised forum, the president dismissed what he called a “conspiracy” alleging that the government – and Mr Obama in particular – wants to seize all firearms as a precursor to imposing martial law.

Taking the stage at George Mason University, Obama accused the NRA of refusing to join the debate despite having its headquarters nearby. “If Democratic voters across the country confirm that he is the Democratic nominee, then I’m confident that we’re going to spend some time here learning about this record and learning about what is on his agenda to make that decision”. Father Michael Pfleger and relatives of Chicago shooting victims were in attendance. But most of the town hall was a solemn discussion about what to do about gun violence. “I’m only going to be here for another year”. Obama maintained his personal tone as he talked about his own childhood. I would hope that you would agree with that.