Obama’s action on guns constitutionally questionable

“They can not make and change law – that is a legislative branch function”.

U.S. President Barack Obama participates in a live town hall event on reducing gun violence hosted by CNN’s Anderson Cooper (R) at George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia on January 7, 2016.

However, Duncan said he did not think Obama was changing the Second Amendment and might be working within the law.

In a statement, they said: “Three years ago, FAN was a strong supporter of the bi-partisan Manchin-Toomey proposal which would have expanded background checks had it not failed in the Senate”.

It simply does not violate anyone’s rights to require people who are in the business of selling guns, wherever they make those transactions, to get a license and conduct background checks on their customers.

“As a survivor of rape and now a mother to two small children, it seems like being able to purchase a firearm of my choosing, and being able to carry that wherever me and my family are, it seems like my basic responsibility as a parent at this point”, she said to the President, asking him why his administration wants to make it harder for her to get a gun. Measures proposed by the president for gun sellers are largely to close the “gun show loophole”, which exempts small arms sellers from keeping formal sales records.

These executive actions will do nothing to stop criminals from obtaining guns. He did nothing to stop the law abiding from owning guns. While mentions spiked to seven percent in November and December after mass shootings in those months, “the overall average for the year was 2 percent”. Of course, the deaths that occurred in these shootings are tragic and innocent lives were lost.

But the President insists that illegal gun dealers continue to benefit.

That’s why we agree with the president that there needs to be national as well as state and local solutions.

Obama is simply governing by decree, but any action that impacts the Bill of Rights is deserving of action by the people’s representatives in Congress.

Many of us have pulled for President Obama to take executive action as a start for making a difference. To compare what Obama actually said as he seeks to rein in the nation’s runaway gun violence with the way it was afterward construed by his political opposites is to feel as if one has fallen down the rabbit hole into an alternate reality where people drink trees and smell music and the idea that words have fixed meaning is about as real as the Tooth Fairy. Those who want to avoid a check can easily buy a new gun through an unlicensed vendor. One only has to look at his immigration executive action a year ago, where he completely bypassed Congress and used executive action to ram his policy though. He’s attempting to shore up the Democratic liberal base before the next election and forestall the real possibility that his executive orders will be quickly reversed should a Republican win the White House.

“I do believe that the President has absolutely made up his mind and that these executive orders are coming down”.