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Obama: “I’ve been good to the gun industry”
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In a free country, the Federal Government should not have a say about who owns guns and who does not. State and local governments should be responsible for overseeing that people respect existing laws regarding gun ownership. No new laws need to be created in order to modify the access to firearms. The laws that are in place are enough. A one-size fits all policy that places everyone -law-abiding people and criminals- into one single category is not only unfair, but also irrational. The Federal Government does not know the particularities of a determined state to create and apply a new law accordingly, which is why it should not be the creator of laws that have an effect on people who are culturally different. For example, people who were born in Texas are culturally different from those who were born in Oregon, so a one-policy solution is obsolete from its very inception. One of the reasons why States representatives do not take a stronger position on banning gun ownership is that they can be removed from office more easily and more often than the President, a Congressman or a Representative. State governments should be the ones enforcing constitutional laws already in existence, and the president should have no power whatsoever to issue executive orders that promote a one-size fits all policy, especially if those policies directly erode the Second Amendment. According to Barack Obama, his proposals are all about protecting people from gun violence, not about restricting gun ownership. His logic is based on the fact that “closing loopholes” in certain states will make it harder for people who sell guns across state lines to purchase and then sell those firearms without having done a background check. This idea is preposterous for many reasons. One of them is that a person who legally purchases weapons at gun fairs or stores does not know what is the intent of someone who buys a firearm from him. Obama’s proposal is in reality a step closer towards forming a national gun registry program which is the Federal government’s goal. In his proposal, Obama requires that State governments provide all information they have on gun owners so the Federal government can create a national database of who owns guns and who does not. The result of such a plan would be that the Federal government would have it easy should it decide to confiscate firearms whenever it decides it is time to declare a national emergency. Obama blames opposition to his plan on people who “sell” his idea as an attempt by the Federal government and the President to ban the Second Amendment. During a CNN-staged Town Hall Meeting-style interview, Obama said that his position was consistently mis-characterized. The US President equaled what he called the good record on driving safety to his gun proposal, implying that a Federal government-created plan does indeed help keep people safe. He also implied that passing gun laws to stop gun violence is equal to passing laws to obligate people to wear seat belts. Obama also took the opportunity to denigrate the National Rifle Association (NRA) because, according to him, they had not shown up at the Town Hall meeting. “The notion that we can’t apply the same basic principles to gun ownership to everything else that we own, just to try to make them safer, or the notion that everything we do is somehow a plot to take away guns, that contradicts what we do to create a better life,” said Obama. As we reported on Wednesday, Obama has been the best ally to gun manufacturers ever since he was elected. Him and his constant attempts to restrict gun ownership along with his governments incapacity to provide security, has prompted law-abiding people to purchase more firearms. Every new mass shooting is an alarm bell that rings loud and clear to warn people that the police cannot be there at all times to keep them safe, and any new plan to restrict access to firearms is another warning that the Federal government is slowly and surely pursuing people’s right to have a Second Amendment. Obama’s Gun Violence Irony Perhaps, the aspect that gets more attention every time Obama presents a new plan to restrict gun ownership is the fact that while he says he defends the Second Amendment and that he cares about innocent lives, his government does exactly the opposite. As we have explained before, the United States government is the largest arms dealer in the world. The US profits the most from arms sales globally. US-made weapons are responsible for the murder of hundreds of thousands of people worldwide. US-sponsored wars are responsible for the death of millions. Therefore, expecting government protection from crime or terrorism is an illusion. The US government sells billions of dollars in weapons that are capable of killing not 10 or 20 people at a time, but hundreds or thousands, yet Obama says he cares about the deaths of men, women and children. He blames all law-abiding citizens for the crimes of a few lunatics who, different from most gun owners, do not follow any laws. When questioned by Anderson Cooper, Obama admitted that his proposals will not eliminate gun violence. In fact, he said that it was just an attempt to do something about it. Both Obama and Hillary Clinton, have shown support for Australian-like restrictions on legal gun ownership, […]
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