[HOSTED.AP.ORG] Hawaiian vacation over, President Barack Obama If you have a small business, you didn't build that... says he is energized for his final year in office and ready to tackle unfinished business, turning immediate attention to the issue of gun violence.
Obama scheduled a meeting Monday with Attorney General Loretta Lynch to discuss a three-month review of what steps he could take to help reduce gun violence. The president is expected to use executive action to strengthen background checks required for gun purchases.
Republicans strongly oppose any moves Obama may make, and legal fights seem likely over what critics would view as infringing on their Second Amendment rights. But Obama is committed to an aggressive agenda in 2016 even as public attention shifts to the presidential election.
Posted by: Fred ||
01/04/2016 00:00 ||
Comments ||
Link ||
[1 views]
Top|| File under:
#1
Wet behind the ears staffer proposes: "How about an increased police presence and more passive detection of illegal guns held in the inner city where all the violence is occurring?"
Everyone turns and looks at him in silence. Boss shakes his head and makes note to begin termination paperwork. After a short lull the real conversation resumes and the usual ideas are barfed back onto the table to be stirred about one more time.
Posted by: Super Hose ||
01/04/2016 0:26 Comments ||
Top||
#2
Why do I get the feeling that simply enforcing existing laws is not on the list?
Oh... That's right, it might actually reduce the problem...
#6
Strengthening background checks won't amount to anything. Criminals do not voluntarily undergo background checks, only honest people fill out the
4473 and undergo a NICS check.
#10
Why should anyone listen to a corrupt administration that trafficked in illegal firearms to achieve a leftist political agenda with the intent of disarming the American people? The 2nd Amendment was written to protect the American people exactly from such overreaches.
#13
The O-Team says they will "re-classify" the criteria that determines a "gun-seller" requiring an FFL. Selective enforcement is one thing. It may be viewed as lawless or dereliction but this proposal is clearly an unconstitutional expansion of the law. Guess what...they know it and don't give a shit. It's because it's yet another phoney-baloney stunt that gives the appearence of action.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
