On January 5, 2016, President Obama spoke from the White House on the additional steps he’s taking to make it more difficult for law-abiding citizens to buy and sell firearms. Video from the press conference is below. The president begins speaking about 4 minutes 30 seconds into the video. Reactions to his proposals from gunowner’s rights supporters follow below the video. Want to join in? Leave your insights in the comments section below:
President Obama is obsessed with undermining the 2nd Amendment.
— Marco Rubio(@marcorubio) January 5, 2016
President Obama’s executive orders will do nothing to improve public safety. #2A #fact
— NRA (@NRA) January 5, 2016
Obama just gave communist china as an example of good gun control He wonders why Americans think he doesn’t believe in the second amendment
— Grover Norquist (@GroverNorquist) January 5, 2016
Obama’s Executive Actions on Guns Will Help . . . Obama
What kind of well-thought-out criteria will the government use to determine that somebody is a firearms dealer under federal law?
“That’s it, really?” the NRA’s Jennifer Baker told The New York Times on Monday night. “They’re not really doing anything.”
Obama has openly supported Australian-style gun confiscation so his insistence that he doesn’t want to take people’s guns is quite odd
— Stephen Gutowski (@StephenGutowski) January 5, 2016
I do admire the pure cynicism of Obama here. He knows this is a completely empty gesture and yet he produced real tears. A+ work.
— Conn Carroll (@conncarroll) January 5, 2016
Fight back against @BarackObama‘s unconstitutional #2A executive actions! #ComeAndTakeIt https://t.co/I8x387Rvii pic.twitter.com/w0HfFtScnD
— Ted Cruz (@tedcruz) January 5, 2016
Obama lists Fort Hood and San Bernardino terror attacks as examples of gun violence. Disgusting #StopGunViolence
— Joel Pollak (@joelpollak) January 5, 2016
Obama says we shouldn’t impugn each other’s motives, then continues to imply you want dead children if you oppose his gun control agenda
— Katie Pavlich (@KatiePavlich) January 5, 2016
Proposed Executive Actions on Gun Control
Once again, President Obama has chosen to engage in political rhetoric, instead of offering meaningful solutions to our nation’s pressing problems. Today’s event also represents an ongoing attempt to distract attention away from his lack of a coherent strategy to keep the American people safe from terrorist attack. — Executive Director of the National Rifle Association’s Institute for Legislative Action, Chris W. Cox, regarding President Barack Obama’s Executive Gun Control Order.
Gee, how did this issue gets so partisan, asks the guy who says gun owners are awful people who want to see more crime.
— Cam Edwards (@CamEdwards) January 5, 2016
Obama’s Gun Speech Sprinkled With Inaccuracies, Distortions
Unfortunately, the president left out most hard details on what he actually plans to have his officials do.
Eroding civil liberties, especially in America, takes time, President Obama warns.
— Tim Carney (@TPCarney) January 5, 2016
“Every single year, more than 30,000 Americans have their lives cut short by guns.” —@POTUS #StopGunViolence pic.twitter.com/TY1rxMObms
— The White House (@WhiteHouse) January 5, 2016
Two-thirds of those were suicides. Quite odd to bemoan method of suicide rather than suicide itself. https://t.co/OPyC5DrGDk
— Sean Davis (@seanmdav) January 5, 2016
The CRYING GAME: Obama Lies, Cries His Way Through Anti-Gun Speech
We’ve seen some truly horrific acts of dishonesty over the years from President Barack Obama, and his overly-emotional, theatrics filled speech promoting his Administration’s anti-gun executive orders (dissected earlier) was perhaps his deplorable performance yet.
“Fort Hood Binghamton Aurora Oak Creek Newtown The Navy Yard Santa Barbara Charleston San Bernardino Too many.” —@POTUS #StopGunViolence
— The White House (@WhiteHouse) January 5, 2016
So, once again, the president is selling his policies by pointing to incidents and people that don’t even intersect with them. Bizarre.
— Charles C. W. Cooke (@charlescwcooke) January 5, 2016
When Obama says “mass violence” he’s being extremely disingenuous. Homicides down more than 50% since 1992
— Katie Pavlich (@KatiePavlich) January 5, 2016
After years of unsuccessful attempts to pass gun control laws, President Obama has chosen to do an end run around Congress with executive actions.
“This is not that complicated. The reason Congress blocks laws is they want to win elections” @POTUS says on gun rights fight
— Juliet Eilperin (@eilperin) January 5, 2016
This is as close to an admission of the widespread unpopularity of gun control as Obama will ever get. https://t.co/xUWTc8YXCk
— Sean Davis (@seanmdav) January 5, 2016
Obama’s Gun-Control Plan Includes Gun-Ban For Some Social Security Beneficiaries
One aspect of the new controls is the inclusion of “information from the Social Security Administration in the background check system about beneficiaries who are prohibited from possessing a firearm.”
