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Obama's Use Of Children In Gun-Control Debate Is Dishonest
To understand why President Obama surrounded himself with a human shield of children last week as he ordered a tightening of our nation's gun controls, you have to remember this is an administration that never lets a "crisis" go to waste. Nor does it resist the use of a superficial prop to divert attention from serious deliberation.
It also has a history of claiming urgency to pass solutions based on misinformation without careful reflection.
That anyone would use children in such an overtly political manner or hijack a tragedy like Sandy Hook to further their political aims is repulsive in itself. But also remember this an administration that knowingly walked hundreds of semi-automatic weapons and rifles across the Mexican border with little regard for the resulting slaughter of innocent people or the death of a U.S. Border Patrol agent.
This is also a president who has no problem leaving our children a huge burden of debt and a lower quality of life, thanks to his unrestrained and irresponsible fiscal management.
Some surmise the primary motivation of Fast and Furious, the Mexican gun-walking operation, was to make a political case for gun control by selling the weapons to criminals.
Now, the administration has found another way to restrict the sale of weapons and ammunition — not to criminals, but to honest citizens.
Never mind that Connecticut already has an assault weapons ban, that the state lists possession of such firearms as a class D felony or that there's probably nothing, short of confiscating all guns or providing armed security at all schools, that could have prevented the tragedy at Newtown, Conn.
At last count there were more than 310 million guns in the U.S., and a 2008 court ruling (District of Columbia vs. Heller) reaffirmed our Second Amendment rights. So guns aren't going away, and Heller would add still more.
Placing armed marshals in schools the way armed marshals are placed in airlines may not be a bad idea. But it should be done at the local level and measured first for effectiveness and cost efficiency.
The efficacy of these programs would vary from community to community, which is why the Constitution leaves these and other issues like them to the jurisdiction of the states and localities, not the federal government. These issues need to be carefully considered rather than reacted to or passed based on the passion of the moment.
Obama's Use Of Children In Gun-Control Debate Is Dishonest
To understand why President Obama surrounded himself with a human shield of children last week as he ordered a tightening of our nation's gun controls, you have to remember this is an administration that never lets a "crisis" go to waste. Nor does it resist the use of a superficial prop to divert attention from serious deliberation.
It also has a history of claiming urgency to pass solutions based on misinformation without careful reflection.
That anyone would use children in such an overtly political manner or hijack a tragedy like Sandy Hook to further their political aims is repulsive in itself. But also remember this an administration that knowingly walked hundreds of semi-automatic weapons and rifles across the Mexican border with little regard for the resulting slaughter of innocent people or the death of a U.S. Border Patrol agent.
This is also a president who has no problem leaving our children a huge burden of debt and a lower quality of life, thanks to his unrestrained and irresponsible fiscal management.
Some surmise the primary motivation of Fast and Furious, the Mexican gun-walking operation, was to make a political case for gun control by selling the weapons to criminals.
Now, the administration has found another way to restrict the sale of weapons and ammunition — not to criminals, but to honest citizens.
Never mind that Connecticut already has an assault weapons ban, that the state lists possession of such firearms as a class D felony or that there's probably nothing, short of confiscating all guns or providing armed security at all schools, that could have prevented the tragedy at Newtown, Conn.
At last count there were more than 310 million guns in the U.S., and a 2008 court ruling (District of Columbia vs. Heller) reaffirmed our Second Amendment rights. So guns aren't going away, and Heller would add still more.
Placing armed marshals in schools the way armed marshals are placed in airlines may not be a bad idea. But it should be done at the local level and measured first for effectiveness and cost efficiency.
The efficacy of these programs would vary from community to community, which is why the Constitution leaves these and other issues like them to the jurisdiction of the states and localities, not the federal government. These issues need to be carefully considered rather than reacted to or passed based on the passion of the moment.
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