With only 18 months left in Office, Obama’s NOT DONE With Guns

With only 18 months left in Office, Obama’s NOT DONE With Guns

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President Obama wants to take away Americans’ guns.
He told BBC that his biggest frustration as president was not getting major gun control passed during his presidency.
Obama doesn’t even trust soldiers with them.
Obama’s regulations have already targeted military veterans and Social Security retirees. For both groups, he wants individuals who rely on others to handle their finances to be classified as “mentally defective,” and thus unable to own a gun.
To get an idea of how out of control the VA policy has become, consider that “the Congressional Research Service, as of June 1, 2012, “[found that] 99.3 percent of all names reported to the NICS list’s ‘mental defective’ category were provided by the Veterans Administration (VA) even though reporting requirements apply to all federal agencies.”
This seems preposterous. There is no reason military veterans should be massively overrepresented among those who lose their rights to owning a gun.
Having a gun is by far the safest way for people to protect themselves from criminals.
Americans 65 and over make up over 14 percent of the U.S. population, yet they seldom go out and kill people, accounting for only 3 percent of murders where the age of the murder is known. And it is probably far less than that, as unsolved murders disproportionately tend to involve young gangs.
For me, Obama’s opposition to people owning guns isn’t a hypothetical question. When Obama and I were both at the University of Chicago Law School and he was a part-time lecturer, the first time we met in 1996 he told me, “I don’t believe that people should be able to own guns.”
During his time in Illinois state politics, Obama supported a “ban [on] the manufacture, sale and possession of handguns,” a “ban [on] the sale or transfer of all forms of semi-automatic weapons.” He was on the board of directors of the left-wing Joyce Foundation, which funded such anti-gun groups as the Violence Policy Center, the Ohio Coalition Against Gun Violence, and Handgun Free America.
Disarming America’s elderly and veterans is just a step in Obama’s plans to take as many guns away from people as he can. But it is the law-abiding, not the criminals, who will be disarmed. Obama’s policies mean more vulnerable victims won’t be able to defend themselves.
H/T: John R. Lott, Jr., is the president of the Crime Prevention Research Center and the author of “More Guns, Less Crimes” (University of Chicago Press).