Using “Executive Action” to circumvent the Bill of Rights?
I don’t think that will fly.
It’s a serious miscalculation to mess with the 2nd Amendment.
It’ll be a hard lesson for Obama to learn.
RE: Using “Executive Action” to circumvent the Bill of Rights?
Obama is an Alinskyite.
Saul Alinsky does not and never has taught changing things ( or the constitution ) via a big bang approach.
It is always via the slow, subtle, baby steps approach.
Just look at what happened to gay marriage....
First, you appoint judges who will overturn state referendums that ban gay marriage.
Then, you turn to the deep blue states and support their legislature in legislating to legalize gay marriage.
You at first voice opposition to it and then a few years later, tell everyone that you have “evolved” on the issue.
You then appoint Justices to the Supreme Court who will vote to legalize gay marriage.
You then ignore such laws as DOMA and refuse to enforce it.
Then, with all the judges you have in place, allow the gay activists to challenge DOMA in the courts.
You get your buddies in Hollywood and the popular music business to make films and music sympathetic to the gay marriage cause for mass consumption to slowly but surely indoctrinate the youth.
Eventually, without even the nation voting on it, and with DOMA safely declared unconstitutional, you go for the big prize — SUPREME COURT deciding the only recognizing traditional marriage is unconstitutional.
With that, any American who refuses to recognize this decision as the “law of the land” ( Kim Davis, Christian bakers and photographers, etc ), are persecuted.
What makes you think this Alinsky-ite tactic can’t be implemented for the second amendment?
It might take years, but THAT is Alinsky’s genius. He HAS time and national complacency on his side.
The FERAL government is doing it now with the laws that are on the books.
As far as I am concerned they “infringe” on my first amendment rights already.
Obama is seeking to infringe further and further and further.