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Obama: I’m ‘Confident’ My Gun Control Measures Won’t Violate Second Amendment
Washington Free Beacon ^

Posted on 01/04/2016 12:45:54 PM PST by bryan999

President Obama said Monday that he is “confident” that new gun control measures he will roll out this week through executive order will not violate the Second Amendment.

Obama, speaking to the press before meeting with Attorney General Loretta Lynch, added that he had “good news”: the recommendations from his administration on how to enact new gun control measures would be within his legal authority.

“The good news is that these are not only recommendations that are well within my legal authority, and the executive branch, but they’re also ones that the overwhelming majority of the American people, including gun owners, support and believe in,” Obama said. “So over the next several days we’ll be rolling out these initiatives. We’ll be making sure that people have a very clear understanding of what can make a difference and what we can do, although we have to be very clear that this is not going to solve every violent crime in this country.

“It’s not going to prevent every mass shooting. It’s not going to keep every gun out of the hands of a criminal. It will potentially save lives in this country and spare families the pain and the extraordinary loss that they’ve suffered as a consequence of a firearm being in the hands of the wrong people. I’m also confident that the recommendations that are being made by my team here are ones that are entirely consistent with the Second Amendment and people’s lawful right to bear arms, and we have been very careful recognizing that, although we have a strong tradition of gun ownership in this country, that even those who possess firearms for hunting, for self-protection and for other legitimate reasons want to make sure that the wrong people don’t have them for the wrong reasons.”

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TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: Florida
KEYWORDS: 2016election; 2ndamendment; banglist; election2016; florida; guncontrol; jebbush; obama; secondamendment
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To: bryan999
Obama: I'm "Confident" My Gun Control Measures Won't Violate Second Amendment

Probably as valid a statement as...
"If you like your insurance you can keep your insurance."

41 posted on 01/04/2016 1:41:44 PM PST by VideoDoctor
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To: Boogieman
Well, the 2nd Amendment clearly says that “Congress shall make no law...”.

"A well regulated militia being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed."

The Congress is not mentioned in the Second Amendment. The right of the people to keep and bear arms is constitutionally protected (hah!) from infringement by any branch of government.

42 posted on 01/04/2016 1:43:15 PM PST by NorthMountain ("The time has come", the Walrus said, "to talk of many things")
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To: VideoDoctor

I was thinking along the lines of “If you like your ebola you can keep your ebola.”


43 posted on 01/04/2016 1:43:35 PM PST by Marathoner (Cruz or Lose 2016)
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To: Boogieman
So I guess he's violating the 2nd, and Article I, and probably the 10th Amendment as well.

Yep. Looks that way to me, too.

44 posted on 01/04/2016 1:44:47 PM PST by NorthMountain ("The time has come", the Walrus said, "to talk of many things")
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To: bryan999

Said with the same confidence “I’m confident there is not one smidgen of corruption in the IRS. Hey! What a dark gas bag.


45 posted on 01/04/2016 1:50:19 PM PST by V K Lee (u TRUMP TRUMP TRUMP to TRIUMPH Follow the lead MAKE AMERICA GREAT)
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To: Telepathic Intruder

“Just requiring people to obtain a license and register is a violation of the 2nd amendment.”

The Second Amendment gives all the rights regarding firearms and the Militia to the people, no power to the US government or the states


46 posted on 01/04/2016 1:52:32 PM PST by duffee (CRUZ 2016)
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To: bryan999

“I’m confident they won’t...” is ClownPrincenobama code for “they will”. Chronic liars lie...that is what they do. What a pathetic president.


47 posted on 01/04/2016 1:54:19 PM PST by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp?)
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To: bryan999
Obama: I'm "Confident" My Gun Control Measures Won"t Violate Second Amendment

I am confident they won't either because we aren't going to obey them.

48 posted on 01/04/2016 1:54:42 PM PST by DiogenesLamp ("of parents owing allegiance to no other sovereignty.")
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To: NorthMountain

Correct second. Punctuation. Taken from original text of the bill of rights. The punctuation is VERY important to the meaning. Dont mean to be...picky?

Article the fourth [Amendment II][4]
A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.


49 posted on 01/04/2016 1:56:53 PM PST by crz
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To: bryan999

we’re more confident they will. What part of “shall not be infringed” is ambiguous?


50 posted on 01/04/2016 1:57:03 PM PST by ManHunter (You can run, but you'll only die tired... Army snipers: Reach out and touch someone)
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To: bryan999

He’s right. He is issuing actions, not orders.

What the Kenyan clown is going to do is release a list of things he wants Congress to do, pass laws and when they don’t play politics.


51 posted on 01/04/2016 2:11:05 PM PST by OpusatFR
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To: bryan999

FU, you would-be dictator.


52 posted on 01/04/2016 2:40:21 PM PST by ozzymandus
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To: bryan999
I'm confident that I will ignore your gun control EOs as completely as I've ignored 0bamaCare. Just as I ignored your 2,200% tax increase on rolling tobacco and buy it without paying any taxes now. You want to make this a banana republic? You got it! The only law now is pirate law.

You've got your bulls#$t laws and I've got mine, Ubama.

53 posted on 01/04/2016 2:45:13 PM PST by TigersEye (This is the age of the death of reason and rule of law. Prepare!)
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To: bryan999
Obama: "I'm confident that I'm a Marxist and I hate the Constitution."

Fixed it...

54 posted on 01/04/2016 2:53:44 PM PST by ExCTCitizen (I'm ExCTCitizen and I approve this reply. If it does offend Libs, I'm NOT sorry...)
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To: bryan999

will ... not ... comply ...


55 posted on 01/04/2016 3:14:27 PM PST by dartuser
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To: bryan999

And Obamacare will cover 46 million Americans.


56 posted on 01/04/2016 3:21:57 PM PST by <1/1,000,000th%
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To: bryan999

I’m confident the Republicans will blather and accomplish nothing. Then they’ll let Obama issue illicit edicts and treat them as if they are legitimate.


57 posted on 01/04/2016 3:27:12 PM PST by Ray76 (Huckabee (Dec 15, 2015): Our priority is to protect Americans, not protect the reputation of Islam.)
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To: bryan999
The purpose of the three branches of government is to provide a check against overreach by one branch. King Barack either doesn't understand that concept or he deliberately chooses to ignore it.

If a president can't get one of his pet schemes/scams passed by congress, he cannot just unilaterally ignore the constitution and ram through his bs program.

But King Barack thinks he can. And like everything else he's done, he'll try to do it with guns. With King Barack, the constitution is just something he uses to wipe his a**.

58 posted on 01/04/2016 3:51:07 PM PST by driftless2 (For long term happiness, learn how to play the accordion)
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To: bryan999

Hmmmm...


59 posted on 01/04/2016 4:25:10 PM PST by MeneMeneTekelUpharsin (Freedom is the freedom to discipline yourself so others don't have to do it for you.)
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To: bryan999

It really is hard to imagine a worse anti-American President than this one. Is it even possible without electing Khomeni?


60 posted on 01/04/2016 8:10:12 PM PST by Boomer
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