Specific Safeguard
“The Bill of Rights was added as a specific safeguard to prevent the federal government from denying Americans those guaranteed rights,” said Governor Abbott. “Today, the President trampled the purpose and substance of the Bill of Rights by unilaterally imposing Second Amendment restrictions. After failing to pass gun control measures through Congress, the President is yet again resorting to unilateral executive action in place of the democratic process. Despite the President’s latest attempt to undermine our liberty, Texas will take every action to protect the Second Amendment rights of law-abiding citizens.” Greg Abbott Governor, Texas January 5, 2016
Ignorance Of The Law
With all due respect, sir. You cannot just order a gun off the internet and have it delivered to your door as you would with a package from Amazon. Oh, how I wish this was true. Allow me to educate you on the process:
- place an order for a firearm online
- provide your FFL dealer’s address, phone number, and copy of their FFL license to the merchant
- firearm is delivered directly to the FFL dealer
- FFL dealer logs firearm in to inventory
- purchaser meets FFL dealer and fills out 4473 form, just as with any other purchase of a firearm at a gun shop
- only after NICS check approval does purchaser take possession of the firearm ordered online.
“A violent felon can buy the exact same weapon over the internet with…
Fisked
Dana Loesch rips apart the proposed executive orders on gun control. I’m not going to try to put a snippet here with a link to the full fisking. This one really needs to be read in entirety. https://danaloeschradio.com/a-thorough-fisking-of-obamas-executive-orders-on-gun-control
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Using Statistics That Fit The Narrative
… regardless of whether or not the statistics are factual. During a January 4 press briefing, White House press secretary Josh Earnest cited debunked Everytown for Gun Safety statistics as one of the reasons behind President Obama’s decision to move forward with executive gun control. Earnest said: There’s an organization that Mr. Bloomberg, former mayor of New York runs, Everytown for Gun Safety, that according to their analysis, there are seven children or teenagers killed by a gun in the average day, that’s an alarming statistic. It’s a tragedy … there’s no law that we’re going to pass that prevents every single one of them but not passing laws and a failure on the part of congress to act…