Tearful Obama pleads for ‘urgency’ on gun control

US President Barack Obama is set to introduce a series of gun control executive measures, including expanding background checks, bypassing the Congress in a bid to control mass shooting menace that has claimed over 1,00,000 lives in the last decade.

“We will be using every tool in the toolkit to stop him”, one senior GOP lawmaker, who is close to leadership, told The Hill.

“This is not a plot to take away everybody’s guns”, Obama said. But the fact is that President Obama’s proposals would not have prevented any of the horrific events he mentioned.

At the centerpiece of Obama’s plan is a more sweeping definition of gun dealers that the administration hopes will expand the number of sales subject to background checks, AP reported.

Priller explained that there is a loophole in other states’ laws that the president is trying to address.

Government programs to track gun crime and illegal gun sales will also be given more money to beef up their operations.

Illing said nothing needed done on the gun rights front to make Americans safer, something the NRA agrees with.

At Sumner County’s busy Guns and Leather store, more than a few people paused to watch President Obama order changes to the nation’s gun laws.

“Getting the mental health into the background check and into the Federal Bureau of Investigation systems for the background check is ok because if you look at some of the mass shootings that were done, that’s mostly what it was from”, said Bowman.

Under current Texas law, background checks are not required with private person-to-person gun sales.

Mr Obama readily conceded the executive steps will be challenged in court, a prediction quickly echoed by Republicans. The FBI will also have 230 new examiners to process background checks. “And with more than 30,000 gun deaths every year, we think that urgency is real, and we think Congress should see that too”.

It was well short of the goal that U.S. Rep. Mike Thompson, the California Democrat who chairs the House gun control caucus, laid out to The New York Times: “There needs to be a law that says you buy a gun, you get a background check”. “However, I still have the concern for one of Delaware’s largest hunting groups, which is the Amish community, and again, House Bill 35 made things more hard for them”.