Posted on 06/14/2016 5:37:35 AM PDT by rktman
President Obama is not ruling out issuing more executive actions to curb certain types of gun sales, his top spokesman said Monday, even though he’s not aware of any additional steps the president can take under his current authority.
“The president has taken substantial executive actions using as much executive authority as he can,” White House press secretary Josh Earnest said. “I’m not going to rule out additional steps … he’s not going to hesitate to act.”
After the bloody jihadist attack in an Orlando Sunday, Obama’s first comments were not to condemn Islamic terrorism but to put the blame on the availability of guns in America.
The president told the nation Sunday’s attack was a “further reminder of how easy it is for people to get their hands on a weapon that lets them shoot people in a school, or a house of worship, or a movie theater, or in a nightclub, and we have to decide if that’s the kind of country we want to be.”
Hillary Clinton, who is Obama’s choice for his successor, hammered the same theme in media interviews.
“We did have an assault-weapons ban for 10 years,” Clinton told CNN’s Chris Cuomo. “I think it should be reinstated.”
“Let’s keep weapons of war off our streets like the one that was used in Orlando,” she added, talking to NBC’s “Today.”
“We know the gunman used a weapon of war to shoot down at least 50 innocent Americans and, you know, we won’t even be able to get the Congress to prevent terrorists or people on the no-fly list from buying guns.”
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Stopping the importation of jihadis would never occur to him......
He welcomes bloody mass murder, in fact that was the objective of Fast and Furious.
he like this, mission accomplished.
Only on white conservative men though!
Even Obola is campaigning for Trump!
It just gets better and better!
From the article:
Donald Trump, the presumptive GOP presidential nominee, hit back hard in his televised response to the Orlando attack Monday when he said of Hillary, “She wants to take away America’s guns, and then let in the people who want to kill us.”
“They’ll put political correctness above our safety, above all of us. I refuse to be politically correct,” Trump said. “The days of deadly ignorance will end when I become president, and they will end soon.”
He criticized Clinton’s call for a 5,000 percent increase in the number of Syrian refugees coming to the U.S.
Trump cited government figures that the U.S. allows in more than 100,000 immigrants every year from Muslim-dominated countries in the Middle East and many more from Muslim countries outside the Middle East. He said he would release the immigration status of the more than dozens of Islamic terrorist suspects arrested on U.S. soil since September 2001, saying Americans had a right to know this information.
“This could be a bigger, better, more horrible version than the legendary Trojan Horse ever was,” he said.
Rather than focus on restricting gun purchases, Trump said, “America must unite the whole world in the fight against Islamic terrorism.”
“President Obama is not ruling out issuing more executive actions to curb certain types of gun sales . . .”
Little known fact: Obama’s executive “action” on guns consisted of a single memorandum — to encourage research on smart guns. That’s it. There were no executive orders. He didn’t do jack . . . which is a good thing, of course.
Don’t believe it? Go to the White House website and read through the list of executive orders, etc. . . . chirp, chirp . .
So Obama didnt do everything he could have done to protect us from guns?
Exactly. There is virtually nothing he can do. It will all be reversed on the first day of Trump’s presidency anyway.
This explains all the lapses by gov’t agents letting the Orlando shooter “slip through”.
Done on purpose so they could take another swing at the 2nd Amendment.
The LGBT community should be outraged at the callousness of the powers-that-be.
Look for Mr. Trump to get rid of ALL of Mr. Obama’s EO actions during his 30 days.
“The president has taken substantial executive actions using as much executive authority as he can,”
So, any further action would be beyond his authority!
Acting beyond that authorized by the Constitution is
dictatorship.
Mr. Trump’s first 30 days.
What if Bammie simply suspended until further notice the NCIS instant background check system? He could, you know.
Stop all retail gun sales on a dime.
So its OK to violate the constitutional rights of 150 million gun owners, but not the rights of a few thousand muzzies who seem to support terrorism.
Yeah Right. How to start an instant civil war.
Go ahead. Make my day.
Why don’t you just take a Louisville Slugger to Hillary’s kneecaps while you’re at it.
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