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Monday, January 25, 2016
In Praise of a Government Doing Nothing
President Obama insists that he "has to do something."
The President believes that gun violence is out of control (it's not) and that more government regulation of the 2nd Amendment will deter criminals (it won't).
He believes he needs to take some kind of executive action to create more gun regulation because Congress won't do anything about it.
And that is precisely where he misses the point.
There is a good reason that Congress has not acted upon any of the onerous gun-control measures that President Obama wants to implement: "We the People" don't want them!
There is a Republican majority in both houses of Congress now because we have elected them in response to President Obama's alarming political power-grabs. A lot of folks who voted for "hope and change" now have seen what that looks like . . . and have decided they don't really want a socialist utopia after all.
So the President will undoubtedly besiege us with Executive Orders during this last year of his reign. We can only hope that Congress acts appropriately to reel him in when he gets too far out of bounds.
But the fact that President Obama is frustrated is good news for those of us who cherish liberty. It proves the Constitution is still in force. It shows that even a determined leftist like President Obama can only get away with so much before "We the People" catch on.
And Congress is demonstrating that sometimes doing nothing is the best way to protect our freedoms. The Second Amendment is not broken, so there is no need to fix it.
The President believes that gun violence is out of control (it's not) and that more government regulation of the 2nd Amendment will deter criminals (it won't).
He believes he needs to take some kind of executive action to create more gun regulation because Congress won't do anything about it.
And that is precisely where he misses the point.
There is a good reason that Congress has not acted upon any of the onerous gun-control measures that President Obama wants to implement: "We the People" don't want them!
There is a Republican majority in both houses of Congress now because we have elected them in response to President Obama's alarming political power-grabs. A lot of folks who voted for "hope and change" now have seen what that looks like . . . and have decided they don't really want a socialist utopia after all.
So the President will undoubtedly besiege us with Executive Orders during this last year of his reign. We can only hope that Congress acts appropriately to reel him in when he gets too far out of bounds.
But the fact that President Obama is frustrated is good news for those of us who cherish liberty. It proves the Constitution is still in force. It shows that even a determined leftist like President Obama can only get away with so much before "We the People" catch on.
And Congress is demonstrating that sometimes doing nothing is the best way to protect our freedoms. The Second Amendment is not broken, so there is no need to fix it.
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