Leave it to Barack Obama to come into his inaugural weekend with a bang, and not just on guns. He’s made it clear that he intends more spending, more regulation, more radical appointees and less national defense in his second term.

Since he just fired a load of executive orders on gun control like shotgun pellets at a duck hunt, I think it’s time to ask a few questions about this part of his agenda. The first one’s for the president.

Why did you have children prominently displayed at your press conference? Were you implying that anyone who opposes your policies wants to see children shot? I think you were.

Second, did you really justify your assault on the Second Amendment partly by equating safe shopping with the “right of assembly?” Finally, in citing the “right to life,” did you see any irony in being the most pro-abortion president in history? You support even partial-birth abortion, and when you were a state senator, you killed legislation that would have required doctors to treat children who survive abortions.

You won’t find them in the Constitution. They’re derived from Article II, which confers executive power on the president to “take care that all laws be faithfully executed.” Executive orders are work orders from the president to employees of federal agencies. They do not apply to state or local governments. They direct the implementation of statutes that Congress enacts and which are signed by the president into law. If they go beyond this, they are unconstitutional.

A look at some of the 23 gun control executive orders that Barack Obama issued on January 16 leaves one wondering whether the president, as Clint Eastwood’s Dirty Harry would say, is “a man who knows his limitations.” If a Republican president issued 23 executive orders on a single subject, the media would pronounce him “obsessed.”

One of the orders calls for “incentives for states to share information with the background check system.” Funny, Mr. Obama doesn’t seem to want to apply this principle to voter registration in order to curtail vote fraud.

Mr. Obama also wants “federal law enforcement to trace guns recovered in criminal investigations.” Since most criminal enforcement occurs at the local and state levels, this would seem to give the feds carte blanche to insert themselves into every crime scene that involves a recovered firearm. Maybe they already do that. I hope not.

Two more executive orders are for the feds to “provide incentives for schools to hire school resource officers,” and to “develop model emergency response plans for schools, houses of worship and institutions of higher education.” Those poor local school officials, clergy and college deans must never have thought of re-tooling, say, fire drills, for other emergencies, even after Columbine, Virginia Tech, and now, Sandy Hook Elementary.

One of the scarier orders directs “the Attorney General to review categories of individuals prohibited from having a gun to make sure dangerous people are not slipping through the cracks.” It wasn’t long ago that Janet Napolitano’s Department of Homeland Security issued a report tagging pro-lifers, war veterans and opponents of illegal immigration as potential terrorists.

Then there’s the “doc snitch.” Federal officials are to clarify that the Obamacare law doesn’t prohibit doctors from asking about guns in patients’ homes. We have to wonder what the physicians are supposed to do with that information— it’s a short step to requiring them to ask.

We need to keep in mind that gun ownership is not merely a Second Amendment issue. “Guns are property,” says Constitutional attorney Leah Farish. “Infringement of Second Amendment rights should also be subjected to due process scrutiny under the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments. I do not think that executive orders amount to sufficient due process in this context.”

Attorney General Edwin Meese III said last week that impeachment could be a proper remedy if President Obama uses an executive order “to try to override the Second Amendment …. Now there are some things he can probably do in regard to the actions of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, or some other governmental agency in its operations…,” Mr. Meese told Newsmax. “But to impose burdens or regulations that affect society generally, he would have to have Congressional authorization.”

That’s why Mr. Obama is urging Congress to enact a flurry of gun restrictions, from banning so-called “assault weapons,” prohibiting people from buying guns from private sellers without undergoing background checks, outlawing high-capacity magazine clips and a few other things that the anti-gun lobby wants.

All of this adds up to a mega-increase in federal law enforcement power and will require billions of dollars and thousands of new bureaucrats. Will it make us safer? Don’t bet on it.

The strategy is not that hard to discern: Shoot the Second Amendment to pieces with high-velocity magazines full of executive orders and questionable legislation. And while you’re at it, use some kids as political human shields in order to demonize your opponents.

King Obama is America's first dictator and will reign supreme.

Just when you think you know the ending the unexpected happens.

Fools like Obozo ALWAYS destroy themselves, as we will eventually witness.

The children were merely agents of emotional misdirection. It is now clear tht the leftist Øbozo regime has ZERØ concern for children, "gun violence", crime -- or the Constitution.

This regime's sole gun control aim is that of reducing the armed might of American citizenry until it is overwhelmed by that of Øbozo';s jackbooted stormtrooper Homeland Security "private army" that he so desires.

"Gun control" 's sole aim:

CONTROL!

An 0bama victory also guarantees, in the fullness of time, civil war and burning cities.

Think of it as one of those “kicking the can down the road” sort of things. There has been a lot of that going on the last ten years.

So it’s January 22, where’s the hag Feinstein’s AWB bill she was supposed to submit today? Classifying a normal semi auto over 10 rounds as a “machine gun” among other traitorous edicts?

(Of course Zero the Usurper jacked his mouth during his child exploitation photo op last Wednesday stating all “assault weapons” would be grandfathered but he lied through his purple lips again, so what else is knew.)

Let’s get the vote down in Senate and House already you incompetent clowns, what’s it gonna be? We’ve gotta put names too lists, I’ve got goodies who’s sale price is determinate on if a ban’s enacted, and other assorted tasks related to raising the black flag and slitting gullets.

I believe the end of this nation is near. Our guns will be taken from us. I don’t know exactly how but it will happen. It could be a nuclear explosion resulting in martial law and gun confiscation. It could be a lot of things. We lasted longer than Franklin thought we would.

I voted for McCain and feel like I wasted my vote. But, it wouldn’t have made any difference either way. There was too much fraud.

The end is over. Stand back, look at the past four years of Obamas triumph over capitalism and implementation of socialism. Takeover of GM and Chrysler, socialized healthcare, amnesty in every sense of the word, vast increase of federal workers as well as welfare, the rise and power of unions, Islamic sympathy, gun control and last but not least......complete voter control through fraud. Sounds like a how-to course taught by the communists in the 50’s huh? This all happened during his term as a moderate, we are facing four years of the real Barack Obama and the real agenda.

>>But, it wouldn’t have made any difference either way. There was too much fraud.<<

And worse this time. And the GOP (except for a small number) is silent.

This is the end of our Republic. The left owns the media, the election rules, the whole ball of wax.

I am watching “Storage Wars.” We should just drop the whole damn thing on their heads.

But I won’t have kids asking me “why did you make us the USSR and protect my Rights, Daddy?”

The only answer left is “Honey, it is your turn in line! Bowl out just like we practiced at home!”

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