Re: "Sandy Hook" et al:
"The gun control measures a tearful President Barack Obama announced Tuesday would not have prevented the slaughters of 20 first-graders at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut, or 14 county workers at a holiday party in San Bernardino, California.
Obama's executive action expands mandatory background checks to gun shows, flea markets and online sales, adds more than 230 examiners and staff to help process them and calls on states to submit accurate and updated criminal history data.
Those measures are seen as crucial to stemming gun suicides — the cause of two-thirds of gun deaths — by blocking immediate access to weapons. But, an Associated Press review shows, they would have had no impact in keeping weapons from the hands of suspects in several of the deadliest recent mass shootings that have spurred calls for tighter gun control."
Ref: Associated Press
"President Obama’s new gun rules are so insignificant that even the NRA could find little to protest. What does that tell you?
After all the hype about Obama’s determination to boldly and unilaterally confront the plague of shootings in the U.S., the president settled for minor adjustments in how to define those required to register as arms dealers, and some common sense directives making more mental health records available to background checkers."
Ref: The Fiscal Times
And theres a Fact Check from Glenn Kesslar of the Washington Post:
"We agree that Obama’s language is slippery and could be confusing to the average person who doesn’t know anything about FFLs and interstate requirements. There is nothing unique about the Internet; the laws governing private transactions and interstate sales are exactly the same. It’s the same as offering to sell a gun on a bulletin board, except the bulletin board is significantly larger. The Internet, and eletronic payment systems such as PayPal and Bitcoin, have certainly facilitated transactions that in the past would have been more difficult to arrange.
Obama erred in saying the rules are different for Internet sellers. They face the same rules as other sellers — rules that the administration now says it will enforce better."
Mr. Kesslar awarded The Obama 2 Pinnochio's for his comments on gun control yesterday. [DonDiego apologizes for no link; the Washington Post no longer allows him free access.]
What The Obama proposed yesterday surprised poor old DonDiego by how little content there was. He changed the Law just enough to accomplish an unconstitutional seizure of legislative powers - changing the Law a teensy bit - without really making any change significant enough to have an effect on the mass shootings over the last several years.
If The Obama really wants to do something to prevent such incidents as Sandy Hook he'd have to really, really violate the Constitution, . . . or he could work with Congress to change the applicable Laws legitimately. It is how a Constitutional Republic works.
But that would be hard work, . . . and he might fail. And that would be unacceptable. The Obama does not fail.
So he won't work with Congress.
Instead he'll shed a tear to show how much he cares.
And in spite of all the above, . . . the raised expectations for significant policy change, how hard The Obama and his team had to work to produce something because they had promised to do so, the midday news conference, and - most especially - the tears, . . . . essentially nothing was actually accomplished.
There is a word for such "leadership". And it is the same word that applies to his policy with regard to the Islamists worldwide.
The word is:
feckless
adjective
1. ineffective; incompetent; futile
2. having no sense of responsibility; indifferent; lazy.
