Posted on 12/16/2015, 3:14:18 AM by Kaslin
Even as he prepares to take action on gun violence on his own authority, President Obama could turn to another source of potential source of executive action: The nation's governors.The White House is in talks with governors and other state and local officials as part of a bottom-up strategy to better enforce gun laws at both the state and local level. White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest said Vice President Biden has been leading the talks, which are focused on "steps they can take to try to reduce gun violence in their communities."
The state-and-local approach to guns is another example of a strategy that's been a unique part of the "fourth quarter" of the Obama presidency. Unable to get his policies through Congress, he's increasingly using aggressive outreach to states and cities to raise the minimum wage, require paid time off, expand preschool programs and offer more affordable college options.
"I think what people are realizing, and I have realized as governor, is that we have a tremendous number of tools at our disposal to take action," said Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe, a Democrat who signed an executive order on guns in October. It required gun tracing for all guns used in crimes, started a gun crime tip line and banned guns in state office buildings.
The first thing that comes to mind is that there can't be that many governors out there who would be amenable to helping President Obama with his pet project in his final year of office. Thirty two states have Republican governors right now and there aren't a lot of warm fuzzies floating between them and the White House.
For the most part, the states that do have Democratic governors have pretty onerous gun laws already. McAuliffe is probably quoted here because he is an anomaly in that regard. He says the White House has been supportive, but his own legislature isn't that thrilled.
Even in the most liberal states, it's difficult to get a blank check on gun control.
Because it's not popular with regular Americans, a point this president is incapable of grasping.
If, as is mentioned early in the article, this is just a push to get current laws enforced better, then the administration is admitting that we pro-Second Amendment types are right: there are already plenty of laws, they just need to be enforced.
This won't end well for President Obama. He's driven by a need to not keep losing on this issue, so he's making up his own rules, and they probably won't last long once he is out of office.
Probably.
Excellent, Sargent Major! Perhaps others here will follow our example. Maybe it will spread.
It would seem to me his #1 problem is the first amendment.
What a buffoon.
I’m thinking that they are working against a deadline, say an inevitable economic tsunami, that will bare the truth about what is going on in the District of Criminals. In order to avoid the Marie Antoinette effect, they think they will be safer if the populace can not come after them with overwhelming force. There’s something going on behind the curtain that Obozo was supposed to have in hand, but has failed dismally. Maybe they realize how miserable true tar and feathering is.
I haven’t seen that word for years ...
And yes, 0bama probably does that.
100%
Immediately following the worst Islamic terrorist attack in the U.S. since 9-11, only a MUSLIM president would reach out to governors for help with gun control and NOT ISLAMIC TERRORIST CONTROL efforts.
Any governor who supports gun control will injure any reelection effort for himself or his party, will alienate a huge number of citizens of his state, and will take a stand directly in opposition to our constitution.
I don’t care which state. Even in California, people value their 2nd amendment rights and will fight to maintain them.
I propose Obummer focus on reducing gun violence in Chicago, and forget about my peaceful and non-threatening (to my law abiding fellow citizens) firearm ownership,use and storage.
We need hospital and doctor control. 120,000 to 200,000 deaths every year due medical malpractice and errors. In college I worked security at a hospital. They had a nurses’ strike and the death rate actually went down.
FIFY.
Gun control would not have and did not prevent the 14 people from getting killed, but serious vetting of immigrants would. We are NOT anti-immigrant, but we want to KNOW who’s coming here.
Obama will not not address this issue because he’s a slacker and uncommitted to excellence in his administration. It’s easier to let 14 people die and blame “the guns.”
Shameful.
He’s probably a yiffer, too.
Count on Hickenlooper (D-CO) to fall in line soon...
I’d say with bells on, but knee pads and a bib more likely...
Then ask them if they’ve ordered their packing boxes yet.
[[Because it’s not popular with regular Americans, a point this president is incapable of grasping. ]]
He grasps it just fine- he just doesn’t care what we want or what the constitution says
LIBTARD LOGIC:
We need more gun control laws because 20,000+ gun laws just aren’t enough for criminals to begin taking them seriously- perhaps if we just had a few thousand more, criminals would finally understand we are serious about crime and would lay down their illegally obtained guns and commit to a life of happiness and peace
“so he’s making up his own rules”
AKA, he needs another shooting
Pen
Phone
Phone does text
[[This power to convene meetings of states` governors is not given to the president anywhere in the US Constitution.]]
And the reason it isn’t is because it creates an unfair power monopoly and makes us vulnerable to tyrannical governments both state and federal who work together to subvert the will of the people
Didn’t know snakes had arms!
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