Barack Obama cries while unveiling action plan to curb gun violence
When President Barack Obama openly wept this week while discussing efforts crack down on America’s gun culture, reactions were divided.
On Tuesday, President Obama announced plans to crack down on gun violence. Even though there was a lot of strength and resilience, he said there was a lot of pain.
Wiping away tears, Obama recalled the Sandy Hook primary school shooting in 2012 where 20 children and six adults were killed.
He previously told the BBC that the failure to tackle gun control had been the greatest frustration of his presidency. Give 500 million dollars to increase help for the mentally ill and increase technology to make guns safer. Patriot2U ( @JamesRitch1) shared a picture of a crying baby with the caption: “Time to whine like a little baby”.
The Executive Order further restricted how you can sell guns.
The family members of gun violence victims flanked Obama on the stage, including Lucy McBath, mother of Jordan Davis and Jennifer Pinckney, the wife of the late Rev. Clementa Pinckney who died in the AME massacre last summer.
Groom said the problem is, the honest people are not the targets of President Obama’s Executive Actions, leading him to believe they will be ineffective. Under current laws, gun sellers can finalize a sale if the customer’s background check has not been completed within three days.
Burnie Stokes, owner of Panhandle Gunslingers, doesn’t like the gun show loophole but, thinks the President went too far.
Anybody in the business of selling firearms must get a license and conduct background checks or be subject to criminal prosecutions, Obama said.
The president’s executive order also provides funding for expanded mental health treatment.
“If somebody intends on doing something bad or that type thing, then they are going to find a way to get their hands on a gun, guns are bad in bad peoples hands”, added Sheriff Gladney. Several Republicans running for president – and Congressional Republicans – blasted Tuesday’s announcement. Sen.