Prez: "I'm confident that there are some measures we can take on gun violence that are within my executive powers."

Actually? No. There are none. And there are none in the powers granted by the Constitution to Congress. IN FACT, Mr. President, you and Congress are EXPRESSLY PROHIBITED from infringing on the right to keep and bear arms. ANY ARMS. If you would like to uphold your oath of office to "protect and defend the Constitution", then don't move by executive action, and try to AMEND the Constitution. It's pretty simple.

Oh, what's that? It would be nigh impossible to win enough votes to amend the Constitution? So you'll just do what you want anyway and continue to pretend you're "defending the Constitution"?

What a surprise.

http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/obama-some-gun-control-measures-i-ca...

Also, Executive Orders were only supposed to be ways the President could shuffle a few minor things in the White House, like moving a guard to another building or changing the hours for meetings, etc., now, since the Executive Departments are so numerous, and touch on so many aspects of our lives, the President can issue orders for the bureaucrats to follow, and they are accepted as defacto laws. Hence we saw Bill Clinton closing off thousands of acres of Arizona land to be made into a national park (that just happened to give big doners of his, the Lippo Group, a world-wide dominance in anthracite.)

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