County Republican chair reacts to Obama’s executive order

Obama plans to sit down Thursday with CNN’s Anderson Cooper and take questions from a live audience at George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia, in the suburbs of Washington DC.

The cornerstone of the president’s plan expands background checks on firearm sales at gun shows and the internet while requiring dealers to be licensed.

Several Republicans running for president – and Congressional Republicans – blasted Tuesday’s announcement. Sen.

“Because gun violence is committed by criminals and criminals don’t care what the law is”, Rubio said.

Murphy said it’s his job to convince Congress that it needs to act on gun control.

“The FBI should background check anyone buying a firearm in America”.

Gee says, “Whether you sell them from a brick-and-mortar store, whether you sell them at a gun show, whether you sell them out of the trunk of your auto behind a local gas station at midnight…you are required if you are a federal firearms licensee to run that background check before you transfer a weapon”.

“It’s going to add a lot more burden to the already burdened system of running those, are they prepared for the influx of that”, he asked.

Republican presidential frontrunner Donald Trump said that, if elected, he would reverse the measures. This closes the gun show loophole which previously existed which also allowed sellers to not have to keep formal sales records.

Obama emphasised that the new measures are “actions within my legal authority that we can take to help reduce gun violence”, calling on Congress to get on board with common sense gun safety measures.

Other steps include 230 new examiners the Federal Bureau of Investigation will hire to process background checks. Nevertheless, it doesn’t shield the president from that fact that this is a rather effete way of tackling gun violence; an issue that drove him to tears in yesterday’s remarks, along with referring to himself 76 times during the address.

Don’t believe the president’s executive order changed much of anything.