Coming for Our Guns

NOTE: I started working on this post before Obama took his executive action but I was unable to finish it. My original post will appear below an updated posting.

Update after signing of executive orders: Well folks, he did it. Obama has signed not 19, but 23 executive orders in his first side-step of Congress in regards to gun-control. Legally, Congress still has to vote on the "assault weapons ban", the size of magazines, etc. but if they don't take action over on the Hill, don't be surprised if Obama takes a run at it himself.

Doctors can now legally ask you if you have access to guns in your house; one of the executive orders reminds doctors that they can do that. If you are asked that at your next check-up, refuse to answer. It is none of your doctor's damn business if you have guns in your house. That is a violation of your privacy and it is something that will almost certainly be headed to court soon.

Obama says we must take whatever actions we can take keep children safe, so that's why he did this. Well Mr. Obama, if you want to take any action that keeps children safe, then do something that will actually save he lives of millions of children and stop federal funding of Planned Parenthood. Over one million abortions were performed last year while less than 2,000 children died as a result of gun violence. Yet our rights are taken away and Planned Parenthood can continue to menace society.

Original Post: With new legislative sessions beginning in both Washington, D.C., and Annapolis, Maryland within the last week and a half or so, I've been waiting to do any posts about guns until I could see how the landscape appears to be playing out. Now that we see where our "leaders" are planning to go, I feel like I can finally write this post.

After the tragedy at Sandy Hook, gun-control became the number two issue in national politics besides the Fiscal Cliff. And now that the cliff issue has been "solved" (for more on that debacle, see my last post from January 3rd), gun-control seems to be the hot-button issue for Obama and his loons. Not the debt-limit, not the spending problem.

Here's Obama's problem, a problem we are all well aware of but I don't want to skip over it. He can't pass gun-control legislation through Congress and he never will be able to because Republicans and many Democrats won't allow it. If voting for the fiscal cliff deal wasn't already political suicide for many of these House Republicans, allowing gun-control legislation to pass certainly would be. So instead, Obama is going to circumvent the Constitution and use executive orders to make gun-control stricter.

Doing something completely unconstitutional has never stopped Obama before. It didn't stop him from using executive privilege to illegally cover up Fast and Furious and cover Eric Holder's ass. It didn't stop him from signing Obamacare into law. And it probably won't stop him from doing something incredibly unconstitutional to restrict our rights to own guns. Cuomo already did it in New York and I'm almost certain O'Malley is going to at the very least get very close to doing the same thing to my family and others here in Maryland.