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发信人: hounddog (巴蒂), 信区: USANews
标 题: 奥巴马是真心控枪的好总统
发信站: BBS 未名空间站 (Thu Aug 8 12:51:13 2019, 美东)
奥巴马总统是真心控枪的好总统。在第一任期民主党控制两院时，迅速出台了两大控枪
法律，把拥枪派与NRA打得痛哭流涕。第一条是允许国家公园背枪进去逛。以前只允许
放在车里。第二条是列车乘客可以托运枪支。2001年911后是不允许。同时，奥巴马总
统还明确指出政府不会收缴大家已经拿回家的枪，不管是白枪还是黑枪。真正打击了拥
枪派的嚣张气焰。
到第二任期，奥巴马总统无法控制国会时，它有陆续出台了一些肯定不能通过得控枪法
律，以安慰它的高智商选民。
版上高智商左派们纷纷为奥巴马总统控枪喊好！
https://www.thoughtco.com/obama-gun-laws-passed-by-congress-3367595
President Barack Obama's record on gun control is a fairly weak one, even
though he was often portrayed as the "most anti-gun president in American
history" and called for more regulations in the wake of the numerous mass
shootings that occurred during his two terms in office. "We do not have to
accept this carnage as the price of freedom," Obama said in 2016. The
National Rifle Association once claimed Obama's "obsession with gun control
knows no boundaries."
Did You Know?
Only two gun laws made it through Congress during Obama's two terms in
office, and neither placed additional restrictions on gun owners.
In fact, the two gun laws signed by Obama actually expanded the rights of
gun owners in the United States. Attempts to limit the size of gun magazines
, expand background checks of gun buyers and ban gun sales to buyers on
terrorism watch lists all failed to pass under Obama.
Perhaps the most significant Obama gun control measure was not a law but a
rule that required the Social Security Administration to report disability-
benefit recipients with mental health conditions to the FBI’s background
check system, which is used to screen firearm buyers. Obama's successor,
Republican President Donald Trump, rescinded the rule in 2017.
Obama Gun Control Proposals Had No Teeth
That is not to say Obama was not critical of the use of guns to commit the
numerous mass shootings and acts of terrorism during his tenure in the White
House. Quite the opposite. Obama sharply criticized the gun lobby and the
easy access to firearms.
President Barack Obama pauses during a meeting to observe a moment of
silence for Sandy Hook Victims
President Barack Obama pauses during a meeting to observe a moment of
silence for Sandy Hook Victims. Pete Souza/Wikimedia Commons
Obama also made curtailing gun violence a central theme of his second-term
agenda after the mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown,
Conn., in December 2012. The president signed executive orders calling for
mandatory criminal background checks on gun-buyers and several other
measures that were unpopular in Congress including a ban on assault weapons
and high-capacity magazines.
But he was unable to win passage of new laws and insisted authorities do
more to enforce measures already on the books.
Executive Actions Not Executive Orders
Critics, however, point to Obama's issuance of 23 executive actions on gun
violence in January 2016 as proof that the Democratic president was anti-gun
. What most fail to point out is that those executive actions contained no
new laws or regulations; and they were not executive orders, which are
different than executive actions.
"For all the pomp and ceremony, nothing in the president’s proposals is
going to put a dent in U.S. gun crime or even substantially change the
federal legal landscape. In that sense, apoplectic opponents and overjoyed
supporters are both probably overreacting," wrote Adam Bates, a policy
analyst with the libertarian Cato Institute's Project on Criminal Justice.
Gun Laws Signed by Obama Expanded Rights
During his first term, Obama didn't call for any major new restriction on
guns or gun owners. Instead, he urged authorities to enforce the state and
federal laws already on the books. In fact, Obama signed only two major laws
that address how guns are carried in America, and both actually expand the
rights of gun owners.
One of the laws allows gun owners to carry weapons in national parks; that
law took effect in February 2012 and replaced President Ronald Reagan's
policy of required guns be locked in glove compartments of trunks of cars
that enter national parks.
Another gun law signed by Obama allows Amtrak passengers to carry guns in
checked baggage, a move that reversed a measure put in place after the
terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001.
A Strong Tradition of Gun Ownership
Obama often mentions the expansion of gun rights under those two laws. He
wrote in 2011:
"In this country, we have a strong tradition of gun ownership that's handed
from generation to generation. Hunting and shooting are part of our national
heritage. And, in fact, my administration has not curtailed the rights of
gun owners—it has expanded them, including allowing people to carry their
guns in national parks and Obama repeatedly expressed support for the Second
Amendment, explaining that
"If you’ve got a rifle, you’ve got a shotgun, you’ve got a gun in your
house, I’m not taking it away."
National Rifle Association Hammers Obama
During the 2008 presidential campaign, the NRA Political Victory Fund mailed
out tens of thousands of brochures to gun owners and like-minded voters
that accused Obama of lying about his position on gun control.
The brochure read:
"Barack Obama would be the most anti-gun president in American history.
Senator Obama says 'words matter.' But when it comes to your Even though the
president didn't sign a single bill into law limiting the use or purchase
of guns the NRA Political Victory Fund continued to warn its members and
like-minded voters during the 2012 election that Obama would make weapons a
target in a second term.
"If Barack Obama wins a The NRA Political Victory Fund also falsely claimed
that Obama had agreed to give the United Nations authority over the guns
owned by Americans, saying:
"Obama has already endorsed moving ahead toward a U.N. gun ban treaty and
will likely sign it after it’s negotiated." |
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