Obama To Unveil "Multiple Gun Control" Executive Actions Next Week
A month ago, after the mass San Bernardino shooting, we predicted that "the US will see increasingly more escalating "attacks" until ultimately Obama's crackdown on gun sales and possession hits its breaking point and the president's gun confiscation mandate is finally executed."
Without a Democratic majority in Congress, and faced with a GOP that is firmly against any form of gun control measures, Obama has repeatedly warned that he would act on his own. Next week he will do just that, and his "gun confiscation" mandate will get a substantial boost on Monday, when according to the WSJ Obama will meet with US Attorney General Loretta Lynch "to consider measures aimed at reducing gun violence, a conversation that comes as he prepares to announce new executive actions in the coming days."
The president has directed administration officials to explore any steps he could take on guns without lawmakers’ help, and he said in his weekly address that he would sit down with Ms. Lynch on Monday “to discuss our options.”
Once he has Lynch's "blessing", the WSJ adds that Obama "could lay out multiple executive actions as soon as next week, and administration officials have confirmed that recommendations for the president are nearing completion."
White House spokesman Eric Schultz said Mr. Obama asked his team to “scrub existing legal authorities” and assess actions that could be taken administratively.
Why act now?
"I get too many letters from parents, and teachers, and kids to sit around and do nothing,” Obama said in the address, which was released Friday morning.
Something tells Obama gets even more letters from supporters of the Second amendment, although their contents may be just slighly more "colorful."
“We know that we can’t stop every act of violence. But what if we tried to stop even one?” Obama added. “What if Congress did something—anything—to protect our kids from gun violence?”
"The president has made clear he’s not satisfied with where we are and expects that work to be completed soon," the White House spokesman added. In other words, it's time for the president to micromanage yet another aspect of daily US lives, because Obamacare turned out so well.
One executive action that will almost certainly be unveiled is the "tightening" of rules for firearms sellers by requiring more of them to be licensed and, as a result, to conduct background checks on buyers.
Anything Obama does unveil will be met with stiff resistance.
Many gun-rights groups already have signaled opposition to new rules for private sellers and an expansion of background checks. And they have questioned whether Mr. Obama has the legal authority to act unilaterally.
Research by the National Rifle Association showed that dating back to the 2007 mass murder at Virginia Tech, none of the high-profile mass shootings has been conducted600 with a firearm bought from a private seller. Adam Lanza is believed to have stolen his mother’s gun after killing her then using it in the Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre.
“I don’t think the president has the authority to redefine what a dealer is because that is defined in existing federal statute,” said Dave Workman, senior editor of the Second Amendment Foundation’s The Gun Mag. “He can’t snap his fingers and suddenly say to someone who sells a gun at a gun show is now a dealer. That would take congressional action.”
Meanwhile, while the US wait to see what executive orders Obama will implement, at the state level numerous gun-related laws just kicked in starting in the new year.
In Texas, beginning today, adults with the proper permits no longer need to hide the handguns they carry in their shoulder or belt holsters. Proponents of the new open carry law say making guns more visible will deter mass shootings.The bill became law after a spirited debate. A majority of the state's police chiefs opposed it.
"The question is: Does it make sense and is it good judgment to have a bunch of people running around with guns visible? And I think the answer is: Absolutely not," said Chief Art Acevedo of Austin.
While Texas is easing gun regulations, starting Friday in California it will be illegal for holders of concealed carry permits to bring handguns to school campuses. Meanwhile, the city of Albany, New York, will now require owners of firearms to store their guns in a secure container or install trigger locks. Repeat violators could face up to a one-year jail term.
Ironically, instead of implementing executive orders, what Obama should do instead if he wants to make an immediate change, is focus on his home state. According to the Chicago Tribune, Chicago's first homicide of 2016 occurred barely 2 hours into the new year.
Two people were shot in the 4600 block of South St. Lawrence Avenue at about 2 a.m., police said. One of them, a 24-year-old man, reportedly had been arguing with someone who pulled out a gun and shot him in the chest. He was declared dead on the scene.
In the latest homicide, a 36-year-old man was shot in the chest and died at a hospital, said Nicole Trainor, a spokeswoman for the Chicago Police Department. The shooting happened at 6:40 a.m. in the 1900 block of West Garfield Boulevard in the city’s Back of the Yards neighborhood, said Trainor. The victim was driving a sport-utility vehicle westbound on Garfield when he heard shots and realized he’d been wounded, said Officer Janel Sedevic, a spokeswoman for the Chicago Police. The 36-year-old was driven to the Artesian Avenue and 55th Street where an ambulance was called and he was taken to Stroger Hospital where he died, Trainor said.
In short, eradicating gun violence in Chicago (and D.C.) would likely do miracles for the average gun homicide rate across all of the US. Which is why it will never happen.
Meanwhile, if Obama wants to truly curb gun ownership at the national level, the solution there is also simple, as the following chart from the NYT reveals:
He should resign.
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Best way to make sure that Trumps steamrolls over Hitlery in the coming elections...
Man between Soros's warning and BO's gun grab Trump couldn't design a better environment to run his campaign. With detractors like these coupled with RINOs and the MSM who needs a political war chest.
I just hope Trump is wearing a Kevlar hairpiece and bulletproof tux...
Donald, the finest passport-tuxedo clothiers are to be found in Tel-Aviv.
...just avoid the suicide vest aisle, unless you want to wear one for life. Then they are free.
Without strong and clear and repeated statements from Trump wrt civil rights and the dangers of the Israeli-Neocon Cabal, it is all hopium.
It is all hopium. Where is the signal that Trump has a clue? All the reverse so far, e.g. "Dancing Muslims". That was the signal that made AIPAC fully approve of Donald Trump, did you notice?
No, Trump is them, not us.
Speak for yourself...
i went thru this type of maqurading with jesse ventura and was fooled once. not again. trump de dump is in the club, and guess what? u aint in that club, u dumb fucking wish, not-think hoppium idiot...
You work with what you got. Release a bull in a china shop figure out how to corral it later.
Thirty thousand gun deaths a year and we worry about terrorists. Much more likely you're going to get killed by your gun-nut neighbor than a terrorist. You are more likely to get killed by lightning than the latter.
Thirty three thousand motor vehicle deaths per year and we worry about guns. Much more likely you're going to get killed driving to work than by your responsible gun owning neighbor.
That is, unless you're a nigger living the gangsta lifestyle in Obamaville USA and are therefore surrounded by pavement ape thugs who don't obey laws. Then you're very likely to be murdered by a good boy who dindo dat and has an illegal piece that he got from Jamiracle on the corner.
Oh and your purposely misleading statistic there includes suicides which existed long before firearms and can/has/will continue to be done without guns.
Here's Chris Rock explaining the difference between "niggas" and black people.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f3PJF0YE-x4
Yeah, they love to refer to Sandy Hook yet the south side of Chicago racks up a higher body count EVERY FUCKING WEEKEND, and they never mention that.
That alone exposes their disingenuousness.
chi town a no gun zone, imagine that! guns where guns are illegal, huh, fucking idiotic stupidity controls this country, imagine that, oh it's real, here and ignoreable til it effects you or i. privacy, healthcare, getting to be u name it, but folks it is getting very close to the front door and starting to get my attention. nuf said today. nice year to all zh law abiding(FOR NOW) no conformers, ha...
Chicago is not a "no-gun" zone. The Concealed Carry laws that passed in through at the State level effectively ended that.
Good one. It's been a while since I watched that. I love how he said "There's no black people in Minnesota." Times sure changed quickly!
That's 33,000 deaths a year, using the safest vehicles available. Over-reliance on "built-in" safety, no reliance on thinking, where the use of violence and intimidation to obtain the desired result is a completely acceptable modus operandi for a large chunk of the population (See "Road Rage" on Youtube for example)
Rather than pointless "background checks" which cannot predict the future, perhaps it would be far more sensible to have MANDATORY firearms training for EACH and EVERY purchase, with the emphasis on resposibilities, rather than "rights".
If you try to rob your gun nut neighbor.
Crime rates at fifty year lows, if you don't include mass shootings. We average more than one of those a day.
Don't forget mass shootings are WAY down too if you just exclude those that occur in Victim-Disarmament... I mean, Gun-Free zones.
Mass shootings only count in the MSM if they're committed by a Muslim or maybe a cop. Ordinary mass shootings, where maybe somebody kills his entire family. don't make it to the front page.
5 examples to support your thesis, or credibility lost.
You might want to look at where those "mass shootings" occur, almost always involving didndu's over gang related stuff pull your head out of your ass breath some fresh air and let your mind actually work for a change.
Bullshit. Look up what is considered a 'mass shooting' if you don't already know.
Some whack job taking out his fam and himself doesn't count. And if they didn't have guns, they'd do it with blades...
77% of handgun deaths for white males are by suicide.
88% of handgun deaths for black males are by homicide.
Final tally for the gun free zone and fine city of Chicago where blacks account for 80% of the victims and 70% of the assailants.
Final 2015 Totals
Shot & Killed: 442
Shot & Wounded: 2553
Total Shot: 2995
Total Homicides: 499
How can that POSSIBLY happen when Chicago has a Mayor that looked like this at one time......
http://chicago.suntimes.com/news/7/71/800062/rahm-emanuel-his-days-as-a-...
"Tip toe....through the tulips......through the tulips......through the tuU-lips. Oh, tip toe....through the tulips with me"
Darwinian selection at work. The fortunate thing is that your gun-nut neighbor is more likely to kill himself or his wife rather than you. Unless you're black.
Unless you're both black and you both live an inner city ghetto.
There, fixed it for ya.
Dipshit. There will come a day when you wish you had a gun. This country is falling apart.
In the civil war that I speak of, folks like you are what would be called "lightly armed opponents" by a determined adversary.
Good luck with that. You were speaking of Darwinian Selection?
Dat's racisss!
You're more likely to get killed by your car than somebody with a gun. "Ban cars! It's for the children!"
Most of those gun deaths are suicides, most of the rest are young black men.
Ban cars? Well if it saves just one life it's worth it right...?
And protect your carbon credits as well.
I'm sure you will find switching to Public Transport much more "entertaining" . . . . :-)
http://images.rcp.realclearpolitics.com/269205_5_.jpg
Ban cars = kid walks to school = gets in shape = weight loss
Obesity Solved! It's a two-fer
mass transit and self driving cars will likely guarantee we eventually are deprived the right to drive as well. Your life is not your own. You are property of the state and as such will do as told.
You will obey me while I lead you
And eat the garbage that I feed you
Until the day that we don't need you
Don't go for help . . . no one will heed you
Your mind is totally controlled
It has been stuffed into my mold
And you will do as you are told
Until the rights to you are sold
I heard the liberals are working on a self-driving car , called Obamacar.
Features include:
a kool-aid dispenser,
a GPS navigation system with doublespeak,
a free phone,
There is no "right" to drive. The verb "drive" is specifically related to this:
http://thelawdictionary.org/driver/
What is DRIVER?One employed in conducting a coach, carriage, wagon, or other vehicle,with horses, mules, or other animals, or a bicycle, tricycle, or motor car, though not a street railroad car. See Davis v. Petrinovich, 112 Ala. 654, 21 South. 344, 36 L. R. A.615; Gen. St. Conn. 1902,
Note that when you want to "drive" you need to pay for a license and take a test, then sign your name which creates a binding contract allowing you the privilege of "driving." You are then acting as an agent of commerce of that jurisdiction. Now inherently, being the free person you are, why would anyone want to enter into a binding contract to "drive" when you can just "travel" instead? Food for thought!
of that 30 thousand- 22000 are suicides.. OH you forgot to add that little tidbit ASSHOLE!
Of which 99.999999% are little obama lookin homies blowing each other away with guns-ammo provided by the likes of Rahm/Holdier and the rest of the bolsehvik buggerers, card-carrying members of the Manhole gay bar on Halsted.
Dindu down!!!
Laughed so hard I spit up eggnog
<golf clap>
Count up the number of people governments murder. Then you might come to realize who or what is the greater threat.
The funny thing to me, is that 99% of legal gun owners don't use them for anything but ornaments or poking holes in paper and other inanimate objects.
The left loves to characterize us target shooters (NRA et al - read white gun owners) as knuckle draggers, and blame us for nigger violence etc.
We own guns because we understand nigger crime. We know history. We understand democide can and has happened. unlike our Redneck Hippy friends who see anybody who owns a gun as a murderer or something.
we had a few of those types at our NYE party out here in redneckistan. Mrs. RR has some liberal business connections who were at our party.
At 11:30, being sober, I decided along with my redneck buddy from Rhode Island (even yankees can be rednecks!), that some celebratory gunfire into my hillside would be in order.
You want to see liberals leave a flaming trail out of your driveway (think old Roadrunner cartoons)? Start a little target practice. I could almost see the 'feel the bern' sticker as they peeled out!
Hilarious. Started with the .22, then .223, .40, 9mm. then the .308 Cetme. Fun for all! One of the anti'gunner's husband and son were joining in on the fun. I don't think I've ever seen that kid having more fun. Mrs. Gungrab was getting furious that her son and husband were getting down and dirty with the rednecks. He 'can't' own guns because of her. The minute my wife said something like that I wouldn't be married, but I digress. She'd never say anything that stupid.
America? FUCK YEAH!
(and yeah, one of those downines is mine)
'"The question is: Does it make sense and is it good judgment to have a bunch of people running around with guns visible? And I think the answer is: Absolutely not," said Chief Art Acevedo of Austin.'
aw yeah, good ol' Assevedo and his big fuckin' hard-on for gun control... well, we almost got lucky trying to push him off to San Antonio, serial salary chaser that he is, but Austin threw more money at him so he's sticking around... the sonofabitch isn't worth $217k plus bennies so I'm just oh so thrilled that my property taxes go into _that_ fucking black hole...
Don't ever let this f****r take away your guns by stealth.
EU = Overrun by armed feral gangs and no access to weapons for law abiding citizens!
http://beforeitsnews.com/global-unrest/2015/12/gangs-in-london-can-you-g...
But what if we tried to stop even one?”....typical socialist comment..... just ban all blacks from having guns first and try that...