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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Ms No, I always loved the Cottonwood area........I keep poking my nose around Zillow and Realtor dot com to see what kinds of unincorpoeated lands are availble out there. I've been to 41 different States and AZ is # 1 for me.
In between Cottonwood and Sedona is an unincorporated community called Cornville. It is very tiny but there is a lot of surrounding area with acreage. One great restaurant, 2 bars, a golf course, very safe, minutes from Sedona or Cottonwood and very nice people. I used to love going there because you just get hugs all day and it's a blast.
There are some high dollar houses and condos going in close by (at the golf course) but so far so good. Some of the community is trailerparkish but they are good people all have at least a little land so it's not too weird and everybody leaves everybody else alone. State land to go 4wheeling or motorcross right there too. Only bad spot is probably Loy road, I hear there are meth heads out there. People will occasionally ride their horses to the bar and there is a guy with a horse and carriage that I have seen a few times, the place is awesome. There are people from everywhere there so there is always interesting conversation.
Why not vote with a gun you pansy?
Like wise, I am considering moving my sorry white redneck ass to the Globe/Miami area.
<<I took a look at all the anti-2nd Amendment, un-constitutional statuates that took effect>>
barky hater: a small observation.
Here's the language of the amendment (emphasis mine): "A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed." And here's the opening text of the proposed bill (emphasis mine):
<<114th CONGRESS,1st Session, H. R. 4269: To regulate assault weapons, to ensure that the right to keep and bear arms is not unlimited, and for other purposes.>>
https://www.congress.gov/bill/114th-congress/house-bill/4269/text
So, now we're making sure that right is "not unlimited"... does that mean it's infringed? Oh look, I believe it does:
<<in·fringe (?n-fr?nj?)... v.tr.1. To transgress or exceed the limits of; violate: infringe a contract; infringe a patent.>>
http://www.thefreedictionary.com/infringe
<<When you infringe on someone's space, time, or rights, you're getting involved in a way that is not cool. That's why, when you violate a copyright, you're said to infringe upon it... Definitions of infringe: 1 advance beyond the usual limit>>
http://www.vocabulary.com/dictionary/infringe
<<Simple Definition of infringe: to do something that does not obey or follow (a rule, law, etc.) ( chiefly US ); to wrongly limit or restrict (something, such as another person's rights)
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/infringe
<<verb (infringes, infringing, infringed) [with object]: 1 Actively break the terms of (a law, agreement, etc.): making an unauthorized copy would infringe copyright; 2 Act so as to limit or undermine (something); encroach on: such widespread surveillance could infringe personal liberties [no object]: I wouldn’t infringe on his privacy>>
http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/english/infringe
So, looks like "not unlimited" does seem to be commonly understood as a synonym of "infringed", since it must assume limits that are not there... a pretty good slam-dunk Constitutional challenge in that language, I'd say.
But then, I'm not a lawyer, just play one on the internet. No doubt a real lawyer can make "not be infringed" be understood as "completely and utterly prohibited" given an ample enough incentive.
If California misses you when you defect, we have plenty of spares in Austin.
I would like just one person to produce any evidence that the Magic Kenyan was even so much as a teaching assistant for one semester, much less any level of professor of constitutional law.
Isn't it strange how NO ONE remembers him being at Columbia?
Isn't it strange how he uses a Social Security number from a dead citizen (harrison bounell,sp?) from Connecticut?
Isn't it strange how the govenor of connecticut sealed death certificates after the Sandy Hook shooting (which is how Orly Taiz found the stolen SS#)?
Isn't it strange how this story is of no interest to any media figure?
I found it rather curious that they still referred to Sandy Hook like it was an actual shooting.
#ThereWereNoBodies
Constituional lawyer my ass. He doesnt even know how many states there are.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EpGH02DtIws
Could he have been referring to this:
<<There are two entities called “the United States” — the Continental United States comprised of fifty (50) geographically defined nation states acting as a federation... (the “United States of America” was never a sovereign nation, just a business association, folks. It’s the land-based States that are separate sovereign nations.) and the Federal United States comprised of fifty-seven (57) states—the fifty Federal States plus the Federal Territories and Possessions which are counted as “States” of their union which is supposed to operate exclusively in the international jurisdiction of the sea.
Continental United States = 50 Separate Nation States operating “as” a nation on the land jurisdiction.
Federal United States = 50 Incorporated Franchises of the “United States of America, Inc.” operating the international jurisdiction of the sea, plus seven “nation states” — Guam, Puerto Rico, etc., operating as “the United States of America (Minor)”—for a total of 57 states.
This is the way it is, and the way it has always been.>>
http://scannedretina.com/2015/03/19/before-things-get-out-of-hand-judge-...
Mofo has more freudian slips than Sigmund's wife. Sure, it's possible he was being as stupid as he generally is, off-teleprompter. But, it's also possible that Barky was referring to the corporate model, in which coincidentally there are indeed, 57 states. (aka, "States and statistically equivalent areas", comprised of the District of Columbia, American Samoa, Guam, Commonwealth of Northern Mariana Islands, Republic of Palau, Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, and the Virgin Islands of the United States.)
Sadly, that isn't the model most voters are familiar with... nor the model they thought he was 'elected' to govern.
He couldnt have meant what you suggested because he said hes been to 57 states and still had one left to go and he hadnt been to Alaska or Hawaii. Besides I doubt he went campaigning in Guam or The Republic of Palau.
duck: I stand corrected. 'Just being stupid as usual' it is, then. Thanks for the context. (And dumb me, giving that bobblehead benefit of doubt for any thought behind his words... last time I make that mistake!)
You're obviously well informed and knowledge is power. Thank you for the info.
I think this fairy is about to bite off more than he can chew.
Is Reggie REALLY Mandingo?
Erdogan: Dictator
Obama: Dictator
Hillary: Dictator in waiting
I take "shall not be infringed" literally. Not a common-sense restriction, not a to-make-us-all-safe restriction...not at all. We were meant to have current military level weapons to overbalance a tyrannical government.
Would someone please tell me why we have to worry about an executive order? Don't they end at the boundary of a Federal installation or territory? If they are enforced in any of the several states, we only hav ourselves to blame.
I won't believe it until Hilsenrath leaks it! sarc
he should just executively disband congress
Naw, why?
The same jews that control...that jew...control the rest of the jews in the supreme commie court and most of the main power players in congress worship the kike like a god.
The jewish lightning rule is working smoothly.
No one in government can check the ko$her nostra in the .gov.
If a large enough fraction of the population has guns then everyone has to have them. Say 1 in every million people owns a gun the other 999999 probably don't feel at a disadvantage. If 1 in every 2 own a gun then obviously the non owners need to get one immediately to feel secure. My guess is that the tipping point is about 5 percent of population.
Here in UK it's definitely below that trigger (haha) level so everyone is fine not owning guns. In the US the genie is out of the bottle so you gonna have to deal with huge ownership levels it's never going away. Personally I would feel unsafe with guns everywhere.
Personally I would feel unsafe with guns everywhere.
Yeah those guns just jump up all by themselves and mow down people by the bushel basket.
I am afraid of hammers because it seems people kill others with them.
SAME thought pattern sparky.
Exactly. Our constitution requires some people to feel unsafe. They can deal with the "unsafe" feelings, develop a nervous disorder or move if they have issues with our civil liberties but they do not have the authority to give our collective rights away because they get scared easy.
Safest place I go to is a gun show. People are polite. They happen everywhere on any weekend and I think I've heard of one time a persons being shot and it was by his own hand. He lived. I've been in a room with tens of thousands of guns and NO ISSUES. I pray you never meet the business end of an invading ME marauder. Anyone comes into my home and I will shoot them in the fucking balls.
UK crime is out of control. You all need an NRA to wake your arses up.
Being stupid and acting foolishly makes me feel unsafe. I consider relinquishing my responsibility to protect myself to others stupid. This ain't Disney World where danger is fake and designed to amuse in an environment under surveillance. We're getting there, but if we do what are you really living for?
Being stupid and acting foolishly makes me feel unsafe. I consider relinquishing my responsibility to protect myself to others stupid. This ain't Disney World where danger is fake and designed to amuse in an environment under surveillance. We're getting there, but if we do what are you really living for?
I am willing to bet the dying thought of the many stabbing victims in the UK was "Ï wish I had a gun"
<<Personally I would feel unsafe with guns everywhere.>>
Yeah, much better to have them only in the hands of criminals.
Or of the government... but I repeat myself.
Maybe the 'gun control' crowd should print Always Trust Your Government on a bumper sticker. Government Is Your Friend. Big Brother Cares 4U. Might work better than the current propaganda campaign.
And you feel safe with thousands of invaders in your country and you have no way to defend yourself............How naive
They allow the sale of cigarettes in the USA and in the U.K.
They tax them heavily ….. To discourage smoking.
They really care about our well being, right?
And guns are everywhere you just don't see them.
Cigarette smoking is responsible for more than 480,000 deaths per year in the United States, including nearly 42,000 deaths resulting from secondhand smoke exposure. This is about one in five deaths annually, or 1,300 deaths every day. On average, smokers die 10 years earlier than nonsmokers.Dec 11, 2015
http://www.cdc.gov/tobacco/data_statistics/fact_sheets/fast_facts/
When was the last time you heard of someone dying from second hand smoke? Does anyone know anyone who has died of second hand smoke? when I was a kid my parents smoked in the car with all 5 of us kids in the car with them. They did it all the time. All my friends parents did the same. They smoked around us in the house too. Im not aware of anyone who has ever died from second hand smoke and nobody else is either. Its just more government propaganda...wake up.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gL-tvfxyUXw
What happens to a UK citizen if he calls a nigger a nigger or Paki a Paki and a policeman hears it?
Can UK citizens build a potato gun?
I get a kick out of Brits that throw rocks at our situation when they've willingly thrown their country away.
Meh, at least they don't have to deal with hurricanes or tornados.
UK is lost. the Muzzies will be pounding your wife soon enough with a hammer or their dick. You are an idiot.
Handguns are a bit like parachutes and life insurance policies.
When you really wish you had one,need one,you ain't got one.
New Laws and FEMA camps for when the FED crashes in the next year.
If we survive the mess everyone's mortgage will have evaporated.
That's the good news. Bad news is food distribution system is stuffed
for the immediate future.
"If you like your 2nd Amendment,you can keep your 2nd Amendment".
Worst POTUS ever,and that is saying something.
I thought Nixon was bad.This fellow makes Nixon seem normal....
It is a toss up between the magic kneegrow and that imbecile crackhead George Jr...
so far
You're writing a lot of good material tonight. Bush is the worst (so far) because dressed in the holy vestments of the political party that starts with a R, he fooled everybody who still believed in "Republican:good/Democrat:bad" false dichotomy. Obama is horrible, but anybody with half a brain could figure that out...if they wanted to. Therefore, he should have never been elected, especially not twice.
Under Bush, we got tyranny all dressed up in the lie of security for the homeland.
What all you Americans do, is talk talk talk too much! If you're going to shoot, shoot, don't talk!
Remind us what shithole country you are from.
I mourn for your lost culture/history/homeland, but such is life in the great socialist experiment.
In lieu of a firearm, you should carry some lube and an apology letter.
It doesn't matter which party is in office. They are just using another fraudulently scripted and presented event (San Bernardino) to attempt to exert fraudulently obtained powers of a bought and paid for figurehead (President) of a fraudulently presented country (USA, Inc. corporation) to take away your G-d given rights to life, liberty and pursuit of happiness and set you up for the same end result as Mao, Hitler, Stalin etc.
It doesn't get much more ironic than that. The false choice they've presented you with is do as they say and suffer the consequences or don't do as they say and suffer the consequences. The global psychopaths have made their choice and at the same time tried to eliminate yours. My best regards towards solving this planetary dilemma.
Obama’s Gun Grabbing Mission And The “Gun Control” Debate Context
http://thenewsdoctors.com/obamas-gun-grabbing-mission-and-the-gun-control-debate-context/
Well, kids and soccer moms told Obama he needs to ban guns so hey done deal obviously!
LOCK-AND-LOAD dear Patriots. The time is growing near to restore America for Americans (an increasingly lower percentage of the population).
It is becoming increasingly clear that we will be forced to do it the hard way.
I still chuckle every time I see that photo-shopped pic of him.
...believe half of what ya see...
No pipes.... those really are his MOM JEANS!
hehehehe
I'm sure what ever it is he is cooking up will make the problem worse.