CNN Calls For National Emergency To Kill 2nd Amendment

It’s bad enough that Obama has moved ahead with background checks and closing the so-called gun show “loophole”, but what Fineman is demanding is several orders of magnitude worse than even these. What he is suggesting is that the president invoke the National Emergencies Act, arguing that the NRA somehow “allowed” him to use it by what he describes as the organization’s “blockade” of easily-accessed gun data.

“So, what should Obama do?

The President needs executive actions that cannot be obstructed by Congress. That’s only possible under a declared National State of Emergency for the Gun Violence Epidemic.

Some examples of executive actions that are necessary and would be blocked by Congress absent a declared National State of Emergency include universal REAL backgrounds checks, suspending the gun industry’s immunity from lawsuits, monitoring ammunition sales and banning those on the terror watch list from buying guns.

No atrocity — whether it’s the massacres at Sandy Hook and Aurora or the terrorist shooting at San Bernardino — will jolt Congress into action or stop gun lobby obstructionism. In fact, a day before the San Bernardino massacre, the NRA said there is no gun violence epidemic.

It is clear why a National State of Emergency scares the gun lobby and pro-gun lawmakers — it would neutralize them. My organization is encouraging a petition. As we tune in to CNN’s town hall meeting with Obama, here are my questions. What are yours?

1) Gun violence is a raging epidemic claiming 30,000 lives per year at a cost of $229 billion per year. Why have you not declared a state of emergency to halt the Gun Violence Epidemic?

2) Since the government is the largest purchaser of firearms, why not force the gun manufacturers to make smart guns (guns that will only fire if the fingerprint of the owner matches the trigger) by requiring that the government only purchase smart guns?”

As I said before, it’s sad that Fineman lost his son. But it would be even sadder if his death was used to deprive Americans of their right to defend themselves in situations like the one he was unjustly slain in.

Source: CNN