All Blog Posts Tagged 'control' (13)

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Earl Ofari Hutchinson

The dust had barely settled on the Senate’s vote to shortstop the GOP filibuster against the compromise deal that some GOP and conservative Democratic senators brokered on the gun control bill before other GOP and conservative Democratic senators began pecking away at it. The deal was to support background checks for private gun sales, and other lessor gun curb measures. The list of ways that these senators can dither,…

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THE WHITE HOUSE

EMBARGOED UNTIL THE START OF THE PRESIDENT’S REMARKS

January 16, 2013

Attached are a fact sheet and executive summary on the package of proposals to reduce gun violence and a list of gun violence reduction…

Earl Ofari Hutchinson

President Obama’s unilateral White House action on gun control is a good start. But Obama took the action precisely because he knows that gun control legislation is a virtual dead letter in Congress at least for the time being. To force the issue, Obama would have to spend precious time, energy, and resources jawboning anti-gun control congressional Democrats, wage an all-out battle with the gun lobby, and the NRA, and…

Earl Ofari Hutchinson

This past September the National Rifle Association swung into high gear. It posted these blunt action alerts on its website to its tens of thousands of members and backers. “Senator Ben Nelson needs to go.” Outgoing Nebraska Senator Nelson’s alleged sin was that he helped put Sonia Sotomayor on the Supreme Court. It reminded its supporters that the Nebraska Senator can’t be a pro-gun senator when he backs anti-gun judges. It’s…

Earl Ofari Hutchinson

Dozens of Democratic lawmakers implored President Obama to simply issue executive orders toughening gun curbs. They made their impassioned plea three years before the horrific Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre. They and others will make even more impassioned pleas to Obama to put his executive pen to paper and enact one or more measures that put some clamps on the types of guns that can be bought and sold and who…

Earl Ofari Hutchinson

The Sandy Hook Elementary School monstrous massacre guaranteed that the heat will be turned up on President Obama to take the “meaningful action” that he called for on gun control. The heat is justified, but it’s not the White House that has routinely killed life-saving gun control measures during the past decade. It’s been Congress.

 The spectacular scope and magnitude of the congressional wipe out is barely known to the…

Earl Ofari Hutchinson

A compassionate and tearful President Obama minced no words following the Sandy Hook, Connecticut school massacre and demanded action. Though Obama did not specify what action he had in mind, the action that has and will again spark colossal debate is how to crack down on the manic and senseless gun violence that has caused indescribable pain and suffering for so many victims, and now those victims are the innocent of…

Earl Ofari Hutchinson

The conventional political wisdom is that now that President Obama is safely back in the White House and does not have to worry about re-election he can do what  a few other freshly minted second term presidents have done. And that’s take off the gloves and let fly with a series of bold, reform initiatives. FDR, Harry Truman, LBJ, and Bill Clinton did that. Obama gave an early hint that he may be more aggressive in…

Earl Ofari Hutchinson

New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg publicly demanded that President Obama and GOP presidential rival Mitt Romney tell where they stand on new and tougher gun control laws in light of the Colorado Theater massacre. Bloomberg wasn’t alone in the demand. A bevy of mostly Democratic politicians quickly joined in the chorus and also…