by
Tony Lee
6 Aug 2012
Barely 24 hours after the horrific tragedy at a Sikh
temple in Wisconsin, liberals again used the incident to push their
anti-gun agenda. New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg went
to a Sikh cultural center to push gun control. New Jersey Senator Frank
Lautenberg immediately said government needed to redouble its gun
control efforts. And, of course, President Barack Obama’s spokesman Jay
Carney accused Congress of not enacting stronger gun control laws and
said Eric Holder’s Department of Justice would enact measures regarding
background checks that would make it more difficult for citizens to
purchase guns.
Carney said there has been a “reluctance” by Congress to pass stronger bans against weapons labeled as “assault weapons” but reiterated that Obama “does support renewing the assault weapons ban.”
“If such legislation emerges, the
president will evaluate it, the White House will evaluate it, guided by
the principle I talked about earlier,” Carney said, according to the
Washington Examiner. We all recognize the situation in Congress with
respect to that renewal.”
Carney then revealed the Justice
Department would “enhance security by making it harder for those who
should not have these weapons to obtain them” by calling for more
background checks.
"He believes that we have a broader issue with violence in
America that needs to be addressed from a variety of angles, including
efforts that this administration has undertaken to work with local
communities, to try to get children out of gangs, to get kids out of
gangs, to get kids back in school, working with local law enforcement in
their efforts to fight crime," Carney said, according to Yahoo, in an effort to try to deflect the line of questioning away from gun control.
Obama cannot directly call for gun control. Instead, he
will have his liberal allies -- and the Justice Department -- try to
enact the very gun control measures he supports but knows would get
punished for at the polls.
