Biden Promises Gun Control by End of January

[22-rimfire]

They hope to accomplish controls through executive orders, ObamaCare, and the US EPA and avoid the legislative process. And this is what the American People re-affirmed and elected in November?

 

[Frank Ettin]

The way to stop more gun control is to win the minds of the middle...

Good post and very true.

As I posted in another thread:

What we can all do all the time --

[1] Bring new people into guns, shooting and the shooting sports and help inculcate them in our culture of responsible gun ownership. (As a coach and instructor I have, without compensation, in the last ten years introduced hundreds of people to guns and shooting.)

[2] Be ourselves good ambassadors for shooting and gun ownership -- dispelling the negative stereotypes many members of the public have of gun owners.

It's fashionable to blame politicians for restrictive gun laws. But politicians are interested in getting elected and re-elected. So what it really comes down to is our neighbors, the people in our communities, the people in our towns, the people we work with, the people we see at the mall, etc. If enough of our neighbors, enough of the people in our communities, enough of the people in our towns, enough of the people we work with, enough of the people we see at the mall, etc., don't like guns, and don't trust the rest of us with them, politicians who take anti-gun stands can get elected and re-elected (and bureaucrats who take anti-gun stands can keep their jobs).

So we need to remember that part of the battle to keep our guns needs to start with our neighbors, the people in our communities, the people in our towns, the people we work with, the people we see at the mall, etc.

They hope to accomplish controls through executive orders,...

Please stop spreading this sort of uninformed nonsense. As Sam1911 noted in post 39:

We've had quite a few threads which explored that question lately, but the answer is that an executive order is a directive from the President to the law enforcement folks under his command as leader of the executive branch of government. In it he tells them how he wants them to enforce EXISTING laws. He cannot make new laws via E.O.,...

We've also discussed the limitations on Executive Orders here and here.

 

[jon_in_wv]

Good to see he is taking his role of investigating what can be done about gun violence seriously when he already has a conclusion in mind before he even starts. Its yet another farce commission created by obama to push his own agenda.

 

[xfyrfiter]

The jails in this country are already full to overflow, and I for one do not think that the pols will make a whole class of people ie. gunowners, into criminals. The antis want to, but face it folks, the government is nearly broke and don't have the capital, either financially or politically to get a lot done. This my fervent hope anyway.

 

[doom]

We also need to contact stores like Wal-Mart and inform them we don't want them playing along with Obama and Co. on the gun-control issue