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Watch: Sheriff Boldly Hits Obama With The REAL Gun Question People Should Ask Right To His Face
Arizona Sheriff Paul Babeu–an outspoken critic of President Obama’s immigration polices and “unconstitutional power grabs”–pressed him Thursday night as to what mass shooting his newly announced gun control measures would have prevented.
Babeu, who is running for Congress, asked Obama, “Mr. President, you’ve said you have been frustrated by Congress. As a sheriff, I often times get frustrated. But I don’t make the laws. And I’ve sworn an oath to enforce the law, to uphold the Constitution — same oath you’ve taken,” he said. “The talk, why we’re here, is all these mass shootings. And yet you’ve said in your executive action, it wouldn’t have solved even one of these or even the terrorist attack.”
Obama disagreed, “No, I didn’t say that.”
“Well, looking at the information, what would it have solved?” Babeu asked.
Current federal law requires any who purchase guns from a gun dealer to undergo a background check, but does not require private individuals who sell, gift, or trade them to each other to do so. President Obama ultimately wants to require so-called universal background checks, so these transfers would fall under federal law. The majority of gun purchases are made through licensed gun dealers.
Babeu continued questioning the president, “The executive actions that you mentioned earlier [regarding public safety]–aspirin, toys or cars–they are not written about in the Constitution. I want to know and I think all of us really want to get to the solution…What would you have done to prevent these mass shootings and the terrorist attack? And how do we get those with mental illness and criminals — that’s the real problem here — how are we going to get them to follow the laws?”
Obama stated that “Crime is always going to be with us, so I think it’s really important for us not to suggest that if we can’t solve every crime we shouldn’t try to solve any crimes.”
“It’s not as if criminals walk around with a label that says, ‘I’m a criminal,’” the president added. “And by the way, the young man who killed those kids in Newtown — he didn’t have a criminal record…But he was able to have access to an arsenal that allowed him in very short order to kill a classroom of small children.” Twenty-year old Adam Lanza took the weapons he used from his mother, who had obtained them legally. He killed her, 20 school children and six other adults before shooting himself.
“And so the question then becomes, are there ways for us, since we can’t identify that person all the time, are there ways for us to make it less lethal when something like that happens?” Obama asked.
Babeu was not satisfied with the president’s answer regarding how his proposals would address the issue of mass shootings. Appearing on CNN’s New Day on Friday morning he said, “We already know that all of these gun restrictions that have failed, we can’t ignore that information, and that’s what I was trying to get at with the president, that we have to look to solve these issues.”
The sheriff sees focusing on mental health in relation to gun policy as one means that could actually lower the incidence of mass shootings.
h/t: TheBlaze
Source: http://www.westernjournalism.com/watch-sheriff-boldly-hits-obama-with-the-real-gun-question-people-should-ask-right-to-his-face/
I’m surprised they didn’t kill the sherif.
For asking
he has a gun at home
and maybe a toy gun too.