WND EXCLUSIVE
OBAMA 'NOT RULING OUT' EXECUTIVE ACTIONS ON GUNS
Trump: 'They'll put political correctness above our safety'
President Obama is not ruling out issuing more executive actions to curb certain types of gun sales, his top spokesman said Monday, even though he’s not aware of any additional steps the president can take under his current authority.
“The president has taken substantial executive actions using as much executive authority as he can,” White House press secretary Josh Earnest said. “I’m not going to rule out additional steps … he’s not going to hesitate to act.”
After the bloody jihadist attack in an Orlando Sunday, Obama’s first comments were not to condemn Islamic terrorism but to put the blame on the availability of guns in America.
The president told the nation Sunday’s attack was a “further reminder of how easy it is for people to get their hands on a weapon that lets them shoot people in a school, or a house of worship, or a movie theater, or in a nightclub, and we have to decide if that’s the kind of country we want to be.”
Hillary Clinton, who is Obama’s choice for his successor, hammered the same theme in media interviews.
“We did have an assault-weapons ban for 10 years,” Clinton told CNN’s Chris Cuomo. “I think it should be reinstated.”
“Let’s keep weapons of war off our streets like the one that was used in Orlando,” she added, talking to NBC’s “Today.”
“We know the gunman used a weapon of war to shoot down at least 50 innocent Americans and, you know, we won’t even be able to get the Congress to prevent terrorists or people on the no-fly list from buying guns.”
Omar Mateen was born in the U.S. to Afghan immigrants, likely refugees from the Soviet war with Afghanistan.
Omar Seddique Mateen, the 29-year-old jihadist who slaughtered 50 people in Orlando, wasn’t on a no-fly list. To the contrary, he had clearance as a security guard for a company contracted to the Department of Homeland Security, the U.S. Army and all levels of law enforcement.
Trump blasts Hillary on guns
Donald Trump, the presumptive GOP presidential nominee, hit back hard in his televised response to the Orlando attack Monday when he said of Hillary, “She wants to take away America’s guns, and then let in the people who want to kill us.”
“They’ll put political correctness above our safety, above all of us. I refuse to be politically correct,” Trump said. “The days of deadly ignorance will end when I become president, and they will end soon.”
He criticized Clinton’s call for a 5,000 percent increase in the number of Syrian refugees coming to the U.S.
Trump cited government figures that the U.S. allows in more than 100,000 immigrants every year from Muslim-dominated countries in the Middle East and many more from Muslim countries outside the Middle East. He said he would release the immigration status of the more than dozens of Islamic terrorist suspects arrested on U.S. soil since September 2001, saying Americans had a right to know this information.
“This could be a bigger, better, more horrible version than the legendary Trojan Horse ever was,” he said.
Rather than focus on restricting gun purchases, Trump said, “America must unite the whole world in the fight against Islamic terrorism.”
Pope sides with Obama
Pope Francis also jumped on the anti-gun bandwagon and railed against guns in relation to the Orlando attack.
The pontiff on Monday lashed out at the “brazen” freedom with which weapons circulate in the world when compared with numerous obstacles to distributing aid, NBC News reported.
His remarks at a U.N. World Food Program event came one day after the bloodbath in Orlando that many progressives are billing as a “mass shooting” rather than a terrorist attack by an ISIS-inspired Muslim.
That set the tone for a media blitz of similar rhetoric, including an article by the left-leaning Salon magazine titled, “Nobody needs and AR-15: The Orlando massacre teaches us (again) that we must ban semi-automatic human killing machines.”
‘Their priorities are upside down’
Alan Gottlieb, executive vice president and founder of the Second Amendment Foundation, said Americans should be appalled that both President Obama and Hillary Clinton chose to attack the Second Amendment rights of legitimate gun owners instead of radical Islamist terrorists.
“Their priorities are upside-down,” he said. “If we lose our Second Amendment rights, the radical Islamist terrorists win.”
Oathkeepers, the pro-U.S. Constitution group of current and retired police and military, issued a statement on its website Monday about the Orlando attack:
The horrific death and injury toll resulting from the Orlando ISIS attack demands that Americans have an adult discussion about gun control. The Government cannot protect us from an individual that is willing to die to kill you and your family. This fact has been proven over and over again; in Chattanooga, at Ft. Hood, in San Bernardino, at the Boston Marathon and even at the Washington Navy Yard. How many more citizens have to die before we turn the conversation away from failed gun control policies, NSA spying and various “watch lists” to making Americans capable of protecting themselves and their loved ones?
Assault-weapon ban didn’t help against French attack
Gottlieb said banning “assault” rifles and handguns didn’t protect France from the bloody jihad attack of November 2015, when 130 innocent civilians were mowed down by jihadists, most of them with AK-47s. Such weapons are strictly illegal in France.
“The European gun control model did not stop the Paris terrorists from getting guns to commit their atrocity,” Gottlieb said. “When you trade the means to protect your personal security for the promise of government protection, you end up with neither.”
Mateen, who called 9-1-1 to pledge allegiance to ISIS during Sunday’s attack, was possibly planning to carry out the massacre at the Orlando gay club for a long time. He attempted to buy military-grade body armor from a local store in recent weeks, according to a U.S. official. Personnel at the store refused to sell him what is known as Level III body armor, which offers more protection than the body armor police typically issue to officers. Mateen had also legally purchased a Glock pistol and a long gun, Trevor Velino of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, told CNN.
Jerry Henry, executive director of GeorgiaCarry.org, said the gun prohibitionists have shown they will use any political means to push their agenda, even exploiting an Islamic terror attack, something that would have been unheard of just a decade or two ago.
“Once again, the gun prohibitionists want to blame the weapon and all law-abiding citizens for the act of one Islamic terrorist, even to the point of mislabeling the firearm as an ‘assault weapon’ or weapon of war,” Henry said.
Henry said an assault weapon is not defined by the federal ATF and, in reality, it is anything that can be used to assault another person.
“We also know that no country these days would send a soldier off to war with an AR-15 as they would be totally under-armed for their mission.”
Henry said Bill Clinton’s “assault weapons” ban for 10 years “did absolutely nothing during the whole time it was in place. Another such ban would wind up with the same outcome.”
Hillary Clinton stated in 2008, “I disagree with Sen. Obama’s assertion that people in our country cling to guns and (Bibles).” She also stated, “You know, some people now continue to teach their children and their grandchildren. It’s part of culture. It’s part of a way of life. People enjoy hunting and shooting because it’s an important part of who they are. Not because they are bitter.”
It did not take long for her to change her mind.
“Hillary now seems to have great difficulty in determining our ‘rights’ and her elite privileges,” Henry said. “If she thinks I should be disarmed, then she should eschew her armed guards paid for with my tax dollars and fend for herself as she believes I should. If she and all the gun prohibitionists truly believe we should do away with guns, then she should set the example for all to follow.
“As always, the goal of the gun prohibitionists is clearly to disarm the law-abiding citizen. I expect the gun prohibitionists to continue to try to push forward with more unnecessary, unneeded and unworkable laws that will only effect the law-abiding citizen.”
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