Vacation over, Obama looking at ways to reduce gun violence

President Obama will take part in a televised town hall Thursday to discuss gun violence in America.

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump does not support change to the Second Amendment of the US Constitution.

The actions, which are staunchly opposed by Republicans and likely to spark a legal fight, underscore Obama’s desire to keep up an aggressive agenda in 2016, even as the public’s attention shifts to the presidential election. White House officials won’t confirm the timing.

Previous efforts to introduce stricter gun control laws have repeatedly foundered despite the large number of people dying in gun attacks. Mr. Obama said Friday during his weekly address.

The president’s focus on gun violence comes after a series of deadly mass shootings across the United States in recent years, including last month’s massacre in San Bernardino, California that killed 14 people.

Trump said our nation is based on the executive and legislative branches negotiating to come up with laws.

Today, it was confirmed that the president’s push will include a televised town hall meeting that will illustrate what he hopes to accomplish.

Clearly, however, Republicans see gun rights as a winning issue, as does the National Rifle Association, which released an online ad Sunday mocking Democratic front-runner Hillary Clinton’s support for restrictions on firearms.

Rival Sen. Bernie Sanders, an independent from Vermont, told ABC’s “This Week” he wished Congress could find consensus but added the move was the “right thing to do”. “This is going to be another illegal executive action which I’m sure will be rejected by the courts and when I become president, will be stricken from executive action by executive action I will take”.

However, Anthony felt the government would have a hard time controlling who purchased guns, even with expanded background checks.

“This president is a petulant child”, New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie said Sunday on “Fox News Sunday”.

On Sunday, Bush slammed the president as having a “first impulse” to “take rights away from law-abiding citizens”.

In reviewing its options, the administration has shut out congressional Republicans, who joined with some Democrats in helping block legislation to expand background checks after the 2012 mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn. “They get up, walk off from me and sit down with somebody who don’t do background checks and buy guns”, said Smith.

With the struggles of a massive population and a majority of the population clinging to one constitutional clause that they must absolutely have a gun, the U.S. could not possibly recall the guns and expect an easy win.