RE: Trump kills gun sales in the US
November 22, 2016 at 5:13 pm
(This post was last modified: November 22, 2016 at 5:14 pm by Doubting Thomas.)
(November 22, 2016 at 2:34 pm)FatAndFaithless Wrote:(November 22, 2016 at 2:29 pm)KUSA Wrote: Fortunately very little. His executive powers have limits.
Right...so where was the apocalypse of gun ownership that people said was going to happen under Obama? It's just as easy to get a gun now as it was before Obama was in office (excluding some state or city regulations, which aren't federal to begin with).
I'm saying that Obama was never going to take our guns, that's just what people were sold - and that's what drove up gun sales, nothing that Obama actually did.
And it's not like a president actually has the power to ban guns anyway. That's why I thought all the fuss over "Hillary's going to take away are guns!" was just more right wing propaganda nonsense. It takes Congress passing a law to restrict gun ownership, a law which could easily be overturned with a conservative Supreme Court. But there's no indication that Congress is even interested in tightening existing gun laws, let alone passing an outright ban.
It's like I've said before, if we're not going to get serious about restricting gun ownership after some idiot shoots up a school and murders a bunch of kids, we're never going to ban guns outright in this country.
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