easyt65
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Executive Gun Control: The 5 Most Outrageous Facts
1. The main policy would not have stopped any recent mass shootings.
The controls expand background checks to cover more private sellers, although private sellers are not the source of guns used in mass shootings and high-profile shootings–the very kinds of incidents Obama claims he wants to reduce. Every mass shooter and high profile shooter in recent memory–with the exception of those who stole their guns–bought their guns via background checks.
2. 225 years of precedent, destroyed–without any legislative due process.
The expansion of background checks is an affront to freedom in general, because it brings private sellers under the purview of the government regardless of whether those sellers sell one gun a year or 100. Americans have been selling guns privately since 1791–that’s 225 years–and now, with a swipe of his pen, Obama is saying a portion of those sales must be handled federally and conducted via background checks.
3. You can be denied a gun for purely financial reasons or if you are on Social Security.
Un-Constitutional! The attempt to bar certain Social Security beneficiaries from owning or buying guns because they are unable to manage their own finances.
4. It adds more burdens to gun dealers who are already following the law.
Contrary to mainstream media reports and the talking points of gun control groups, FFLs are already highly regulated and monitored by the ATF. Obama’s executive action adds one more hoop through which FFLs must jump.
5. Tax dollars for “smart guns” that nobody wants.
Obama’s executive action instructs the “Departments of Defense, Justice, and Homeland Security” to sponsor research into the “smart gun” technology and explore ways to further its use. This means using tax-payer money to pay for something the private sector has no interest in funding.
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AGAIN, it does nothing to instill common sense in or mandate the following or obeying of the Constitution by federal politicians and employees, which would prevent such moronic acts as:
- Giving thousands of guns to Mexican Drug cartels (then being surprised that you just helped facilitate the murders of over 500 innocent people (2 Americans) and more in the future.
- Giving weapons to the Muslim Brotherhood, Al Qaeida, and ISIS
- Mocking the American people as cowards for being afraid of 'widows and orphans'
- Choosing to highly politicize certain shootings while refusing to mention black-on-black crime that has resulted in far more deaths than 'mass shootings', refusing to mentioned Obama's complicity in the deaths of 500+ innocents after giving criminals guns, Obama arming terrorists...
- etc....
BOTTOM LINE: Obama's EO, imposing new regulations' on law-abiding citizens would not have stopped recent and will not stop anymass shootings. Law-abiding citizens already obey the law, Those who do NOT, who ignore the law, will find a way to get a gun if they want a gun. That's what criminals and terrorists do!
1. The main policy would not have stopped any recent mass shootings.
The controls expand background checks to cover more private sellers, although private sellers are not the source of guns used in mass shootings and high-profile shootings–the very kinds of incidents Obama claims he wants to reduce. Every mass shooter and high profile shooter in recent memory–with the exception of those who stole their guns–bought their guns via background checks.
2. 225 years of precedent, destroyed–without any legislative due process.
The expansion of background checks is an affront to freedom in general, because it brings private sellers under the purview of the government regardless of whether those sellers sell one gun a year or 100. Americans have been selling guns privately since 1791–that’s 225 years–and now, with a swipe of his pen, Obama is saying a portion of those sales must be handled federally and conducted via background checks.
3. You can be denied a gun for purely financial reasons or if you are on Social Security.
Un-Constitutional! The attempt to bar certain Social Security beneficiaries from owning or buying guns because they are unable to manage their own finances.
4. It adds more burdens to gun dealers who are already following the law.
Contrary to mainstream media reports and the talking points of gun control groups, FFLs are already highly regulated and monitored by the ATF. Obama’s executive action adds one more hoop through which FFLs must jump.
5. Tax dollars for “smart guns” that nobody wants.
Obama’s executive action instructs the “Departments of Defense, Justice, and Homeland Security” to sponsor research into the “smart gun” technology and explore ways to further its use. This means using tax-payer money to pay for something the private sector has no interest in funding.
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AGAIN, it does nothing to instill common sense in or mandate the following or obeying of the Constitution by federal politicians and employees, which would prevent such moronic acts as:
- Giving thousands of guns to Mexican Drug cartels (then being surprised that you just helped facilitate the murders of over 500 innocent people (2 Americans) and more in the future.
- Giving weapons to the Muslim Brotherhood, Al Qaeida, and ISIS
- Mocking the American people as cowards for being afraid of 'widows and orphans'
- Choosing to highly politicize certain shootings while refusing to mention black-on-black crime that has resulted in far more deaths than 'mass shootings', refusing to mentioned Obama's complicity in the deaths of 500+ innocents after giving criminals guns, Obama arming terrorists...
- etc....
BOTTOM LINE: Obama's EO, imposing new regulations' on law-abiding citizens would not have stopped recent and will not stop anymass shootings. Law-abiding citizens already obey the law, Those who do NOT, who ignore the law, will find a way to get a gun if they want a gun. That's what criminals and terrorists do!
