AP Rips Obama For Not Acting on ‘Gun Safety’ (i.e., ‘Gun Control’), While Nearly Ignoring DOJ/ATF Scandal
In a late Monday morning report , the Associated Press's Erica Werner wondered why “the White House has yet to take any new steps on gun violence” he supposedly promised in the wake of the January shooting of Arizona Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords. Either Werner or the headline writers at AP are getting extraordinarily impatient, as seen in the headline which follows the jump: PROMISES, PROMISES: Obama yet to act on gun safety Whoever is responsible for the headline seems to be expecting some kind of unilateral action, even though anything meaningful would — or perhaps the correct word is “should” — require getting a law through Congress. The rest of Werner's report cites what she believes is a failure by Obama to follow through on a vague “promise” made at Giffords' funeral: “if we're serious about keeping guns away from someone who's made up his mind to kill, then we can't allow a situation where a responsible seller denies him a weapon at one store, but he effortlessly buys the same gun someplace else.” Obama's previous track record, legislative and otherwise , is extraordinarily hostile to Second Amendment rights, so much so that he felt compelled to try to comfort a ” hand-picked crowd” in Pennsylvania (HT Tim Graham at NewsBusters) during the 2008 presidential campaign by telling them: “If you’ve got a gun in your house, I’m not taking it,” Obama said. But the Illinois senator could still see skeptics in the crowd, particularly on the faces of several men at the back of the room.
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