Obama’s executive order on guns is mostly political theater

[LuckyTheDog]

The executive order has been carefully crafted to survive a court challenge. It does not erase the distinction between business and private firearms sales. Rather, it broadens the definition of a business and provides for stricter enforcement of restrictions on business sales by hiring additional personnel to conduct background checks.

Yet, even the president has admitted that the executive order is “not going to prevent every mass shooting”.

There is evidence that unregulated private sales – over the internet and at gun shows – are a source of guns for individuals who are ineligible to purchase or possess a firearm. However, the weapons used in recent mass shootings in San Bernardino and Umpqua Community College in Oregon were acquired legally at federally licensed gun stores or through private transactions that likely wouldn’t be affected by Obama’s new rules. In other words, the president’s executive order would not have stopped these shooters.

The president’s executive order and its focus on the “gun-show loophole” is largely political theater. Act II will be his upcoming town hall meeting on CNN.

MORE HERE: http://yonside.com/obamas-executive-order-on-guns-is-mostly-political-theater/

[jaysunb]

1. Well, I'm giving it a standing ovation. n/t

[madokie]

13. +10,000

If you were or are a Vietnam vet you will get the 10,000 reference. If not maybe not. At any rate I agree with you

[jaysunb]

18. I am and I do. n/t

[madokie]

19. Glad to know that

and really glad you made it home too.

ETA: I guess I'm blind because I didn't notice your Avatar, I apologize

[jaysunb]

20. And a hearty " welcome back to the WORLD " to you as well.

[madokie]

21. That means a lot

Been a while since I heard those words.

[Hoyt]

2. I'm fine with more "political theater" when it comes to gunz and the yahoos who covet them.

I'd like Congressional or Supreme Court action. But until then, I hope to hear a lot more ridicule of gunners and their pollution of society.

[cali]

3. We actually agree on something

[Hoyt]

11. See, there you go.

[gratuitous]

5. Doing nothing hasn't prevented any mass shootings

Why don't we do something and see if we get a different result?

[onecaliberal]

6. At least he did something.

The NRA backed candidates are swimming in blood and they refuse to do one darn thing because $.

[Lizzie Poppet]

7. The move against unregulated private sales isn't INTENDED to combat mass shootings.

It's intended to address the (exponentially more numerous) shootings by ordinary criminals. That is, in my view, vastly more important, for the simple reason that far, far more people die from the latter. It would be less political theater than something entirely devoted to mass shootings, I'd say.

[mwrguy]

8. It's a start, and I believe that he will do more

As he said earlier, in 2016 he will be leaving it all on the field.

[Heeeeers Johnny]

9. Timothy D Lytton needs to go back to jounalism school (if he ever went),

or find an occupation that doesn't demand attention to detail.

Obama's announcement were executive actions, not executive orders, big difference.

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http://uspolitics.about.com/od/Gun-Control/a/Executive-Actions-Versus-Executive-Orders.htm

Hence the reason they will have little to no effect.

[HassleCat]

10. That's OK

He's not closing a loophole, but narrowing it. That's more than Congress has done in 20 years.

[randome]

12. Fuck the naysayers who would rather we did nothing!

Was it really necessary to give this cretin a hearing on DU or do you agree with his sentiment?
[hr][font color="blue"][center]The truth doesn’t always set you free.
Sometimes it builds a bigger cage around the one you’re already in.[/center][/font][hr]

[H2O Man]

14. In the same sense

that Martin Luther King, Jr.'s "I Have a Dream" speech was theater.

[Nitram]

15. "Mostly political"? I disagree. The executives options are limited, but Obama plugged loopholes.

The reaction from the right proves he is right on the money. Gun nuts keep insisting all the government has to do is "enforce the law." Obama just gave the government better tools to do that. It will be up to congress to improve the law itself.

[Scuba]

16. We need to repeal and replace the 2nd Amendment if we're actually going to fix our gun problems.

[Squinch]

17. No one else has said boo to the people who want a gun in every hand. What he did is a start.

[spanone]

22. if humanizing & caring about a serious problem is political theater...i'm all for it.

[KittyWampus]

23. So is parading around downtown with an assault style weapon strapped across your back.