Posted on 01/05/2016 7:47:10 AM PST by Kaslin
On the Monday night edition of MSNBC's All In, longtime liberal columnist Jonathan Alter reacted to President Obama's executive actions on gun control by comparing it to President Abraham Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation in 1863 and remarking how heartbreaking it was for Obama to have met with the families of Sandy Hook victims and "see those six-year-olds stacked up like cord wood."
Host Chris Hayes began the segment with a number of soundbites from the President and Republican presidential candidates opposed to the move before remarking: "While the substantive reason to be concerned about guns seems clear, in a country where in 2015, at least 265 kids under the age of 18 picked up a firearm and accidentally shot themselves or someone else with that firearm, the politics of it seem less clear."
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And the EO will be just as meaningless.
There is practically nothing to legitimize. The executive action on private sellers does nothing more than remind the ATF and private gun sellers that if someone is “in the business of selling firearms” he/she must be an FFL. It sets no new standards or rules on the subject but merely clarifies that the law is unclear.
It is nothing but hype with no practical impact.
I compare Alter to the village idiot.
President Trump has vowed that on his first day in office, he will revoke this EO and every other unconstitutional EO issued by Obama. It would be even better if President Trump simply revoked ALL of Obama’s EOs with Trump Presidential EO #1, and then reissued any that actually might some merit.
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