According to Philip Rucker of The Washington Post, a George Soros backed liberal think tank, The Center for American Progress, "is recommending 13 new gun policies to the White House - some of them executive actions that would not require the approval of Congress - in what amounts to the progressive community’s wish list.”
The CAP proposals include universal background checks, banning military-grade assault weapons and high-capacity ammunition magazines, and modernizing data systems to track gun sales and enforce existing laws.
CAP President Neera Tanden said. “There’s nothing here that interferes with the rights of people to have a gun to protect themselves. But we have daily episodes where it seems that guns are in the wrong hands, and that’s why we think it’s important that the president acts.”
Now, I totally agree with Ms. Tanden that in fact, there’s nothing here that isn’t something the government should have been doing all along. Background checks make absolute sense, and when it comes to assault weapons and sophisticated ammunition, other than criminals or the military, I don’t understand why anyone would need them at all.
However, I still doubt very much that any law change is going to really matter very much as far as the real problem’s concerned. Because the crooks and the loonies don’t care about laws now and I don’t see how or why that will change no matter what kind of legislation’s enacted. So thusly, this whole exercise is likely a waste of verbiage and time.
Then again, if the administration truly wants to begin really trying to control weapons, a good place to start might be by locking AG Eric Holder up. Because, lest we forget, it was his lunatic plan as recapped by the LA Times that “A federal operation dubbed Fast and Furious allowed weapons from the U.S. to pass into the hands of suspected gun smugglers so the arms could be traced to the higher echelons of Mexican drug cartels. The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, which ran the operation, has lost track of hundreds of firearms, many of which have been linked to crimes, including the fatal shooting of Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry in December 2010.”
So, in the end as usual. if you want to find the root cause of virtually any major problem in our nation, if the first place considered is the administration you’ll likely be correct more often than not. And what I’ll never, ever, understand is why folks as dumb as this group in office is would rather keep embarrassing itself instead of simply shutting up and quietly collecting paychecks from us while they can.
That's it for today folks.
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