That's the one on the list that concerns me most. Very broad and lacking definition.
That’s the one on the list that concerns me most. Very broad and lacking definition.
Thw whole thing is. It’s like a campaign speech. It’s pointless.
What does “maximize” mean?
Obama has bigger fish to fry. He is choosing to pick his fights carefully. This one on gun control is pretty low down on his totem pole as compared to other issues such as immigration in order to preserve the latino vote for the Dems next election; and the debt ceiling and sequestration issues are coming up in the next two months. Obama isn’t going to expend too much capital on this issue. He’s focusing on much bigger battles.
Obama knows if he steps too far into the gun issue, he’ll lose a lot of gun toting Dems as well as Pubs over this. He also knows that if he steps too far it would be the last straw that broke the camel’s back and there would be cries for impeachment by the Pubs, or it would get immediately tossed into the courts where he might very well lose, and he would get no compromise from and would lose the Pub controlled House bigtime on all future issues. He has too much to lose here and not enough to gain. I could see Obama taking another stab at this issue more towards the end of his term of office possibly, but not now.