With Republicans in Congress defying the wishes of a majority of the
American people, President Obama is finalizing his plan to take
executive action on gun violence.
The AP reported:
President Barack Obama’s advisers are finalizing a proposal that
would expand background checks on gun sales without congressional
approval.
White House adviser Valerie Jarrett says the president has
asked his team to complete a proposal and submit it for his review “in
short order.” She says the recommendations will include measures to
expand background checks.
Polling reveals
that the vast majority of Americans agree with the President on this
issue. A recent Quinnipiac University poll found that 77% of Americans
support not allowing people who are on the terror watch list to buy
guns. By a margin of 58%-8%, people support making the laws related to
gun sales more strict, and 92% of those surveyed supported requiring a
federal background check on all gun buyers.
Republicans will freak out as soon as the President announces his
executive actions, but the vast majority of the American people are
likely going to support his executive orders.
Most Americans are smarter than the NRA and the Republican members of
Congress that they control think they are. The American people
understand that expanding background checks is not the same as taking
away everyone’s guns.
Decent law abiding people who want to buy guns have nothing to fear
from an expanding background check system. If a person can’t pass a
background check, they probably shouldn’t be allowed to buy a gun.
As the body count from mass shootings has piled up, Obama has grown
increasingly frustrated and disgusted with the Republican refusal to
take a few simple common sense steps to make the American people safer.
Obama will lead where Republican refuse, and use his executive power
to make it more difficult for potential mass shooters to legally buy a
gun.
