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House Speaker Paul Ryan also attacked Obama for his plan to take action alone on guns, accusing the President of applying a "dangerous level of executive overreach."
BARACK OBAMA'S EXECUTIVE ACTIONS ON GUN CONTROL ARE MEANINGLESS
"While we don't yet know the details of the plan, the President is at minimum subverting the legislative branch, and potentially overturning its will," the Wisconsin Republican said in a statement. "His proposals to restrict gun rights were debated by the United States Senate, and they were rejected."
"No President should be able to reverse legislative failure by executive fiat, not even incrementally," Ryan said. "We all are pained by the recent atrocities in our country, but no change the president is reportedly considering would have prevented them."
Obama’s announcement generated predictable outrage among Republicans, including GOP presidential candidate Donald Trump. “Pretty soon, you won’t be able to get guns,” Trump said on CNN.
"These are baby steps," Trump said of Obama's plan. "I don't really know what's he's proposing. All I hear is he's going to sign an executive order."
"Regardless of what is proposed, it is proposed by executive order and it shouldn't be," Trump said, before shooting down the entire idea of gun-free zones in public places across the U.S.
"Whenever I see gun-free zones, that's a flag for the wackos to come in and start shooting people," he said.
Barack Obama will reveal executive actions on gun control Tuesday
VIII. Conclusion
The historical record shows that, while the boundaries of the Second Amendment were the subject of vigorous discussion during the nineteenth century, the core meaning of the Amendment was well-settled: the Standard Model of the late twentieth century scholars was the Standard Model of the nineteenth century. For all practical purposes, it was the only model. Every known scholarly commentator who said anything about the Second Amendment, all six Supreme Court cases, and every judge except for one in Arkansas treated the Second Amendment as an individual right. These Standard Model sources--like their twentieth century successors--disagreed about important features of the Second Amendment, including its application to the states and the types of arms whose possession is protected. Some analysts treated the Amendment in desultory fashion, while others celebrated it. Some cases and commentators saw the right as intended solely to allow resistance to oppressive government, while others saw the right as also encompassing defense against individual criminals, and not just criminal governments. But there is agreement on one fundamental: the Second Amendment recognizes a right of individual Americans to own guns and edged weapons suitable for resisting tyranny, and protects that right from infringement by the federal government. However confusing the Second Amendment may have become to Americans in the twentieth century, the core of the Amendment's meaning was readily apparent in the nineteenth century.
The Second Amendment in the Nineteenth Century
Al
BARACK OBAMA'S EXECUTIVE ACTIONS ON GUN CONTROL ARE MEANINGLESS
"While we don't yet know the details of the plan, the President is at minimum subverting the legislative branch, and potentially overturning its will," the Wisconsin Republican said in a statement. "His proposals to restrict gun rights were debated by the United States Senate, and they were rejected."
"No President should be able to reverse legislative failure by executive fiat, not even incrementally," Ryan said. "We all are pained by the recent atrocities in our country, but no change the president is reportedly considering would have prevented them."
Obama’s announcement generated predictable outrage among Republicans, including GOP presidential candidate Donald Trump. “Pretty soon, you won’t be able to get guns,” Trump said on CNN.
"These are baby steps," Trump said of Obama's plan. "I don't really know what's he's proposing. All I hear is he's going to sign an executive order."
"Regardless of what is proposed, it is proposed by executive order and it shouldn't be," Trump said, before shooting down the entire idea of gun-free zones in public places across the U.S.
"Whenever I see gun-free zones, that's a flag for the wackos to come in and start shooting people," he said.
Barack Obama will reveal executive actions on gun control Tuesday
VIII. Conclusion
The historical record shows that, while the boundaries of the Second Amendment were the subject of vigorous discussion during the nineteenth century, the core meaning of the Amendment was well-settled: the Standard Model of the late twentieth century scholars was the Standard Model of the nineteenth century. For all practical purposes, it was the only model. Every known scholarly commentator who said anything about the Second Amendment, all six Supreme Court cases, and every judge except for one in Arkansas treated the Second Amendment as an individual right. These Standard Model sources--like their twentieth century successors--disagreed about important features of the Second Amendment, including its application to the states and the types of arms whose possession is protected. Some analysts treated the Amendment in desultory fashion, while others celebrated it. Some cases and commentators saw the right as intended solely to allow resistance to oppressive government, while others saw the right as also encompassing defense against individual criminals, and not just criminal governments. But there is agreement on one fundamental: the Second Amendment recognizes a right of individual Americans to own guns and edged weapons suitable for resisting tyranny, and protects that right from infringement by the federal government. However confusing the Second Amendment may have become to Americans in the twentieth century, the core of the Amendment's meaning was readily apparent in the nineteenth century.
The Second Amendment in the Nineteenth Century
Al
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