Fact checking politicians on guns
“They go to a gun show in IN, where right now they don’t have to do a background check, load up a van, and open up that van and sell them to kids in gangs in Chicago – if now that person has to go through a background check, they’ve got to register, ATF has the capacity then to find out if and when a gun is used in a crime in Chicago where that gun had come from”. Sad to say we may still be doing too little too late.
“(The overdrive) is significant and will go a long way toward saving lives”, she said. “It won’t change the way we operate at all”. Forty-four percent of those polled said the next president should work to tighten federal gun control laws, while 49 percent were opposed.
A loophole that developed from an original intention to allow owners to pass down machine guns and the like to family members without background checks – abused to a ridiculous extent over the years – will be closed.
LaPierre rejected Obama’s claim that his gun control measures were merely an attempt to make America safer by reducing gun violence.
Sisson agreed the Obama administration has been good for business.
The NRA live- tweeted in accordance with The Huffington Post.
Obama will speak at Baxter Areana in the afternoon and will have a number of people who support his recent executive order on gun control, including Amanda Gailey.
This is all about politics, of course, with the president trying to shore-up the Democrat liberal base before the election and to forestall the real possibility his executive orders will be quickly reversed should a Republican become president. I am deeply concerned by any efforts in Washington that would restrict South Alabamians right to own a firearm. “I will unsign that so fast, so fast”.
In fact, whenever new gun laws are introduced, Republicans insist instead that existing gun laws need to be more vigorously enforced. “If you want to get rid of firearms, amend the constitution”. It is unfortuate that politicians are using such tragedies to advance an agenda that reduces Americans’ Second Amendment right to self-defense with firearms.
That’s it – that was the only mention of guns in the entire speech.
Aspesi said someone intent of committing a violent act will do so whether armed with a gun or not.
“(Obama) may have given some additional guidelines and additional enforcement resources, but, with respect to restrictions on who may buy, sell, who may transfer or mail, or any circumstances like that – that has not changed”. “If you have evil in your heart, there’s always a way to hurt other people”.