Obama's gun measures
January 4 2016 By Abiodun Giwa
President Barack Obama has announced new gun measures toward expanding background checks for people who wish to acquire guns and restrict the freedom currently attached to buying guns online and at gun shows. The new measures also require registration for all gun sellers in the country. The president criticized the Congress for doing nothing to combat gun violence.
But as soon as the president has concluded his briefing on his new gun control measures, the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Paul Ryan, said that the president has overstepped his legal bounds, and that the possibility of challenging the president's action in a court of law is under consideration.
In his speech, President Obama compares the U.S to other advanced countries. He said that it is only in the U.S that gun violence has constituted a worrisome dimension. He gives a list of various gun violence incidences resulting in the injury and death of innocent victims as reason for his decision, and said that the Congress has in the past allowed partisanship to override the need to stop the bleeding. He said that the business of the day is not to discuss what has happened in the past, but to do something to save some lives in the today and in the future.
However, analysts have been quick to say that most of the gun violence examples given by the president have been committed by people who have no history background check evasion. A good example was the Connecticut school shooting. Adams Lamza killed scores of students in the school premises and later finished his mother in her home with a gun legally acquired by his mother. But analysts say there are other areas of the new effort at gun control that are salutary: Making provision for treatment available for people with mental illness and registering gun sellers.
Republicans Party has said that the president's decision to roll out new gun control measures using the executive order is an anathema, since it is coming from the nozzles of the president's executive order, and not from the Congress.
Captain Mark Kelly, the husband of the Congress woman, Gabrielle Giffords, a victim of gun violence, said the new measures will have significant effect against gun violence. Victims of gun violence and their family members attended the president's briefing.
The president's proposal is strongly opposed by the Republican Party presidential candidates, hinged on the need for the president not to tamper with the second amendment. They say the president's measures undermine the second amendment. Moreover, they express concerns over the president's reliance on the executive order, rather than work with the Congress to achieve required gun measures.
But the Democratic Party representatives said that what President Obama has decided to do what the Congress has left undone or refuses to do. In essence, the Democratic Party members are saying that if the Republican Party controlled Congress will not do or refuses to do what is needful in the face of murderous onslaughts by reckless gun owners, the president cannot be said to be wrong for resorting to the use of executive order to save the nation from continued blood letting.
The New York Daily News has not only approved the president's gun measures in a published statement, the paper says that the president's measures fall short from stopping the plague. The National Rifles Association, NRA, which the new measures will apparently affect its members' gun shows and sales is not talking.
America has an Obama care, a free health insurance program, which the president instituted on assumption of office. Now, he is about to cause an Obama gun measures through executive order. Meanwhile, a news report says that a new bill is in the work to repeal Obama care, and Obama has said if such a law is ever passed by the law makers and it comes to his desk, he will veto it.
But as soon as the president has concluded his briefing on his new gun control measures, the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Paul Ryan, said that the president has overstepped his legal bounds, and that the possibility of challenging the president's action in a court of law is under consideration.
In his speech, President Obama compares the U.S to other advanced countries. He said that it is only in the U.S that gun violence has constituted a worrisome dimension. He gives a list of various gun violence incidences resulting in the injury and death of innocent victims as reason for his decision, and said that the Congress has in the past allowed partisanship to override the need to stop the bleeding. He said that the business of the day is not to discuss what has happened in the past, but to do something to save some lives in the today and in the future.
However, analysts have been quick to say that most of the gun violence examples given by the president have been committed by people who have no history background check evasion. A good example was the Connecticut school shooting. Adams Lamza killed scores of students in the school premises and later finished his mother in her home with a gun legally acquired by his mother. But analysts say there are other areas of the new effort at gun control that are salutary: Making provision for treatment available for people with mental illness and registering gun sellers.
Republicans Party has said that the president's decision to roll out new gun control measures using the executive order is an anathema, since it is coming from the nozzles of the president's executive order, and not from the Congress.
Captain Mark Kelly, the husband of the Congress woman, Gabrielle Giffords, a victim of gun violence, said the new measures will have significant effect against gun violence. Victims of gun violence and their family members attended the president's briefing.
The president's proposal is strongly opposed by the Republican Party presidential candidates, hinged on the need for the president not to tamper with the second amendment. They say the president's measures undermine the second amendment. Moreover, they express concerns over the president's reliance on the executive order, rather than work with the Congress to achieve required gun measures.
But the Democratic Party representatives said that what President Obama has decided to do what the Congress has left undone or refuses to do. In essence, the Democratic Party members are saying that if the Republican Party controlled Congress will not do or refuses to do what is needful in the face of murderous onslaughts by reckless gun owners, the president cannot be said to be wrong for resorting to the use of executive order to save the nation from continued blood letting.
The New York Daily News has not only approved the president's gun measures in a published statement, the paper says that the president's measures fall short from stopping the plague. The National Rifles Association, NRA, which the new measures will apparently affect its members' gun shows and sales is not talking.
America has an Obama care, a free health insurance program, which the president instituted on assumption of office. Now, he is about to cause an Obama gun measures through executive order. Meanwhile, a news report says that a new bill is in the work to repeal Obama care, and Obama has said if such a law is ever passed by the law makers and it comes to his desk, he will veto it.
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