President Barack Obama is considering the use of an executive order to restrict access to guns or ammunition in the wake of nationwide revulsion in the US over the Connecticut school shootings, vice-president Joe Biden said Wednesday.
Such a move would be deeply controversial in the gun lobby, but Biden said the president was determined to explore every legislative avenue.
“The president is going to act,” Biden said in a briefing to reporters before the inaugural meeting of a new national task force on gun control. “Executive order, executive action that can be taken; we haven’t decided what that is yet. But we’re compiling it all with the help of the attorney general and all the rest of the cabinet members as well as legislative action, we believe, is required.”
Before meeting with gun safety and victims’ groups, the vice president told reporters that “executive orders” may be an avenue that the administration will use to take swift action on firearms.
“There are executives orders, there’s executive action that can be taken,” he said. “We haven’t decided what that is yet. But we’re compiling it all with the help of the attorney general and the rest of the cabinet members as well as legislative action that we believe is required.”
As the Weekly Standard notes, Biden stressed the importance, in his view, of taking action to curb gun violence. He also said that he is convinced that the government “can affect the well-being of millions of Americans and take thousands of people out of harm’s way” — pending officials “act responsibly.”
Even if Obama attempts to take unilateral action, Biden indicated that legislation is still “required.”
Watch the vice president’s comments, below:
(H/T: Weekly Standard)
Maybe now we can have the conversation about how executive orders are unconstitutional and therefore, unbinding!
What they are not printing is that most Americans are not buying the bullshit story of Sandy Hook! Instead they are lying in our faces that Americans are in “revulsion”. They are “revulsed” that the Government is pushing these lies as if they were actually real.
Obama revulses me the Elite lackeys revulse me. I pray that they will fall hard and fast and that the American people show no mercy, Or at least as much mercy as the drones have killing REAL innocent children overseas.
Why don’t you use the fact that
VP Biden stated awhile back how
Obama spent 1 billion dollars in
cruse missiles using executive
privilege on Libya’s civil war we
were not involved in and killed
thousands, not to included
civilians as collateral damage, in a
war we were not in, nor did the
congress approve it, It is a shame
that the people of our country
were killed by a few citizens of our
country, how many killers that
caused all the deaths= 6 people.
and now the government want to
control our weapons for 300
million people. No were in the 2nd
amendment does it say anything
about hunting or sports for the
right to bear arms, there are
around 40 million like me(vets)
that swore an oath that we would
defend the constitution against all
enemy’s Foreign of DOMESTIC .
That Oath is for ever. Do I think
semi autos should be on the street I
don’t know because President
Bush and The congress let the law
lapse, so they they thought the
semi’s were ok. ps if Biden Killed
1,000’s in america using Cruise
missiles would you be screaming
for his head or his bosses
Impeach Obama & charge him with high treason. Everyone else involved must be send to prison. Check the secret societies. Bilderberg Group (skull & Bones) was just given an appointment at the White House. I believe there is another Bilderberg as well.. Obama has changed the 1st amendment that corporations are a person!!!!