You know, for a guy who it's been rumored used to teach the Constitution, Barry "Almighty", our Dictator-in Chief, seems to know very little about the actual document and even less about how it's designed to work. I guess it's either that, or he's simply choosing to ignore it because he knows that no one, but maybe a hand full of Republicans, is going to be calling him on it. Certainly there's no one in the media who is going to be heard sounding the alarm anytime soon. So anyway, once again attempting to justify his taking action that is blatantly unconstitutional by claiming to do so because Congress refuses to, 'Team Barry' announced new steps on Thursday regarding gun control, curbing the import of military surplus weapons and proposing to close a little-known loophole that lets felons and others circumvent background checks by registering guns to corporations.
So four months after watched his gun control drive collapse, and rather spectacularly so, in the Senate, Our 'Dear Beloved Leader', Barry "Almighty" has now added two more executive actions to a rather impressive list of 23, that Barry has somehow determined that he can ‘legally’ take on his own to reduce gun violence. With the political world now focused on Mideast tensions and looming fiscal battles, the move was designed to show he hasn't lost sight of the cause he took up after the shootings at an elementary school in Newtown, Conn. A tragedy that he and the Democrats worked feverishly to exploit in their effort to bring about stricter gun laws. 'Slow Joe Biden', Barry's supposed point-man on gun control, unveiled the new actions Thursday at the White House. "It's simple, it's straightforward, it's common sense," 'Slow Joe' said. 'Slow Joe' talking about commonsense? Funny!
One new policy that Barry has come up with, will end a government practice that lets military weapons, sold or donated by the U.S. to allies, to be reimported into the U.S., where some may end up on the streets. The White House said the U.S. has approved 250,000 of those guns to be reimported since 2005; under the new policy, only museums and a few other entities like the government will be eligible to reimport military-grade firearms. 'Team Barry' is also proposing a federal rule to stop those who would be ineligible to pass a background check from skirting the law by registering certain guns, like machine guns and short-barreled shotguns, to a corporation or trust. The new rule would require people associated with those entities, like beneficiaries and trustees, to undergo the same type of fingerprint-based background checks as individuals if they want to register those types of guns.
Still out of reach for our Dictator-in Chief, at least for now, were the steps that gun control advocates and the administration's own review claim could most effectively combat gun violence in the U.S., like an assault weapons ban and fewer exceptions for background checks for individual sales. But such claims are nothing more than smoke and mirrors. And anyway, only Congress can act on those fronts, but with this guy you really never know. When looking at public opinion, there's really very little evidence that support for gun control legislation has grown in any way since April, when efforts died in the Senate amid staunch opposition from the NRA and most Republican senators. "Sooner or later, we are going to get this right," Barry said on that day in the White House Rose Garden, as he surrounded himself with the families of Newtown victims as well as former Rep. Gabrielle Giffords at his side.
In the months since the Senate vote, 'Slow Joe' has been heard to say that there has been a handful, or so, of lawmakers who opposed expanded background checks and now have told him, in private of course, that they have since changed their minds and would very much like another chance. Of course neither 'Slow Joe' nor anyone over that White House has named any of those lawmakers, but I’m sure they exist. Renewing his pledge to keep working for a legislative fix, ‘Slow Joe’ said that he hoped that the midterm elections would provide to the anti-gun forces an opportunity for improving prospects for stricter gun control. Many liberal groups have made it known that their plan is to hold accountable in 2014 those lawmakers who voted against gun control. "If Congress won't act, we'll fight for a new Congress," 'Slow Joe' said. "It's that simple. But we're going to get this done."
I think if we've learned anything from watching this guy over the course of the last 4 and a half years, it's that we can never afford to turn our back on him, not even for a second. He’s simply not to be trusted. To make the mistake of thinking that he is an honorable man willing to operate as the Constitution says that he must, could prove fatal, politically speaking. His reckless disregard for our Constitution should always be taken very seriously and should never be in doubt. He seems to think that there is something special about him, something that puts him above his predecessors and above our Constitution. And that makes him very dangerous. We need to be very mindful of the fact that this man who is now our president sees himself as being above the law, and as being one able to operate unmolested, and at will, outside, and sometimes well outside, of what has been, up to this point, considered as being the normally accepted confines of his office.
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