From the Washington Post, a right wing news outlet..... What other unintended consequences will Obama create?
https://www.washingtonpost.com/blog...gun-control-the-president-is-just-pretending/
I guess it’s ironic that President Obama, an affirmative gun-control advocate, has presided over the greatest expansion of gun sales in U.S. history. But the whole affair is somewhat robbed of its irony because it’s all so predictable. The president may as well have convened a meeting at the White House to ask his advisers what they could do to increase gun sales in the United States. I don’t see how this White House could have done anything else to more effectively create conditions where more people want to buy a gun.
The president makes no secret of his contempt for gun owners. Remember, as far back as 2008, he ridiculed the simpletons who “cling to guns or religion.” Well, after seven years of the Obama presidency, there are more frightened hands clinging to more guns than ever before. And rather than sincerely making an effort to work within Washington to make our streets safer, Obama prefers to issue meaningless executive orders on gun control— measures that would have done nothing to stop any of the several high-profile mass shootings that have taken place in recent years. Since the president knows his actions will increase gun sales, and he knows what he is calling for now would not have prevented the shootings he uses as props, what exactly is he hoping to accomplish? I think at this point, he doesn’t have much to do and is just pretending to be president.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/blog...gun-control-the-president-is-just-pretending/
I guess it’s ironic that President Obama, an affirmative gun-control advocate, has presided over the greatest expansion of gun sales in U.S. history. But the whole affair is somewhat robbed of its irony because it’s all so predictable. The president may as well have convened a meeting at the White House to ask his advisers what they could do to increase gun sales in the United States. I don’t see how this White House could have done anything else to more effectively create conditions where more people want to buy a gun.
The president makes no secret of his contempt for gun owners. Remember, as far back as 2008, he ridiculed the simpletons who “cling to guns or religion.” Well, after seven years of the Obama presidency, there are more frightened hands clinging to more guns than ever before. And rather than sincerely making an effort to work within Washington to make our streets safer, Obama prefers to issue meaningless executive orders on gun control— measures that would have done nothing to stop any of the several high-profile mass shootings that have taken place in recent years. Since the president knows his actions will increase gun sales, and he knows what he is calling for now would not have prevented the shootings he uses as props, what exactly is he hoping to accomplish? I think at this point, he doesn’t have much to do and is just pretending to be president.
