Posted on 01/05/2016 8:32:28 AM PST by Kaslin
resident Obama's senior adviser Valerie Jarrett said the administration waited until now to announce executive actions on gun control because they were hoping Congress would pass something better first.
Jarrett told MSNBC this morning that if Republicans have a problem with the actions, which include expanding the definition of gun dealers to therefore expand required background checks, "they should all spend time talking to the victims of gun violence."
Pressed on why it took so long, she replied, "Well, our first priority was to get Congress to pass an act that would have been more comprehensive."
The National Rifle Association panned the White House's announcement, which also includes new spending on mental health programs, new ATF agents and easing access to mental health records during the background check process, as something inflated to impress Obama's supporters.
"This is it, really?" Jennifer Baker, an NRA official, told The New York Times. "This is what they've been hyping for how long now? This is the proposal they've spent seven years putting together? They’re not really doing anything."
Jarrett said Obama is "going to take whatever steps he can, within his authority, to keep guns out of the hands from those who shouldn't have them, to make our communities safe, to ensure that we're providing the mental health resources that we need, to make sure that Americans are as healthy as they can be, and to invest in smart technology."
"What the ATF is doing today is giving guidance that says that it doesn't matter where you buy a gun, whether it's in a store or in a gun show, or on the Internet. If you're in the business of selling guns, you need to get a license and you need to make sure that you do background checks on the people to whom you sell them. And that's an important step," she said.
"...And what the president has said is that the American people have a lot of power too, and that when their voices are heard, they'll be more powerful than the NRA."
Jarrett added that she's "met with gun owners around our country who share the president's priority."
"What we're saying is, look, we still want to put pressure on Congress to do the right thing, and we're going to need the American people to help us do that," she continued. "But in the meantime, the president is going to take the steps that he can to keep guns out of the wrong hands, improve our technology, make our background check system more efficient, bring in digital services to make it work 24 hours a day, provide mental health resources -- a half a billion dollars to help with mental health -- make sure that Social Security Administration is giving data about people who have disabilities that put them at risk of hurting themselves or others into our background check system."
"...This is an ongoing process that the president is committed to. Nothing has frustrated him more than Congress' unwillingness to act on this issue since he's been in office."
Sweet ! I too would love to hear of your story as you go forward learning.
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How is this legal? How does the ss office get that data?
Valarie,I got news for you. This gun cntrol order hands the election over to one Donald Trump.
“waited until now to announce executive actions on gun control because they were hoping Congress would pass something better first.”
These POS dictators and dictatorettes burn me up. We have a republic here, our laws are passed by congress which is the voice of the people. If you don’t like it, go back to where you belong like Iran or Kenya.
Does that include Obama's and Hillary's Secret Service Protection?
Wish I had the power to make his final (hopefully) year a living hell.
Thanks, will do.
You’re always willing to dance upon the dead bodies of victims with the hopes of possibly creating more Val aren’t you?
Thanks, hubby is delighted.
How about US Veterans talking to the ‘Syrian refugees’ or vice versa?
Do the so-called ‘refugees’ get on the ‘list’?
How do illegals get guns? IIRC, this is illegal in itself. Or, at least, it was.
Or gang members?
Might be talking about SS Disability...
The SS agent on the left doesn't appear to be too interested...looks like he doesn't want to be in the picture. Would be a real shame if one of them stepped out of the way if something were to happen. A real shame....
No aide, to my knowledge, has ever had a Secret Service detail before.
Obama is an incompetent liar - on every possible subject. Everything about Obamacare was and is a lie. I was a US Army combat infantryman for several years fighting our enemies overseas and left the service to spend more time with my family. Since I’ve been out, my health insurance (Blue Cross) has been cancelled twice, I have no idea who my doctor is now, and my premiums in three years have gone from $450 per month to over $1200 per month (family of four).
No one should even gives this liar the time of day. Shame on all those who voted for such a godless, unqualified, juvenile delinquent to our highest elected office. Mark my words, Obama will go down in history as the worst, most corrupt US President of all time.
My uncle was murdered by a black man with a gun. The gun didn’t murder my uncle. The evil S.O.B did. Luckily, I am intelligent and mature enough to make that distinction.
An executive order is to be ignored or disobeyed when it comes to an amendment to the constitution. It has not gone through the process to become a law. The bill of rights or for that matter, any amendment to the constitution cannot be changed simply because one wants to.
For anything in the bill of rights to be changed it must go through the lengthy process of being amended. Including all three branches of government and, if I am not mistaken, state legislatures.
A strongly worded letter of intent or order from one branch of the federal government, even if written in red crayon, can be disobeyed or completely ignored when it pertains to our rights granted by the constitution.
Now this is my opinion based on my simple understanding of certain rights that cannot in any way be infringed upon nor modified for the moment, or changed without the due process of the laws of this republic.
Therefore, anything pertaining to the second amendment should be ignored as political posturing and is not binding.
This particular executive order is NOT A LAW! For it did not go through the constitutional process required for it to become one.
It is to be mocked, ignored, dismissed and if need be disobeyed.
JMHO
Jedi. (They are going to need more red crayons at the White Hut soon).
Well, it gives them a feel for what it really means to be a victim. I would guess that "victims of gun violence" comprise a significant fraction of new gun purchasers.
Beotch.......How about US being victims of your friends you’re bringing in to torture, rape, murder us?
Let’s asked the victims if they wish they wished they could have defended themselves?
I say what they believe is that we are stupider than them. They are SO wrong, and on so many levels.
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