Τρίτη 5 Ιανουαρίου 2016

Obama takes up arms initiative

Obama takes up arms initiative

Barack Obama decided to bypass Congress on an issue that is extremely sensitive in the US, this firearms.

Today presents a series of measures to better accompany their use, ensuring that it has on the side of the right and the vast majority of Americans.

US President will announce the White House orders and proposals while respecting, as promised, the sacrosanct second amendment of the Constitution, however, allow to give battle against the "scourge" of armed violence.

About 30,000 people are dying each year in the US from firearms.

The generalization of the obligation to control the judicial and psychiatric previous before a gun sale located in the center of the package, the major lines of which revealed yesterday, Monday night the government.

According to Obama, these measures "will not prevent all violent crimes all the fusillade (...) But would allow potential to save lives in this country."

After seven years during which only made after deadly firearms was disappointed, the Republican president decided to act alone against in a Congress where Republicans dominate.

With this decision, he sets the debate in the middle of a presidential campaign underway. But also exposed to criticism for the way it exercises its power as his opponents complain that arbitrary.

The government mainly wants to close gaps in the current system by clarifying how a seller of weapons defined.

On roadshows and also internet, today is really easy in the US to acquire a weapon without being subjected to any of the controls that require the federal authorities from authorized dealers.

"Any person involved in the sale of arms which uses the internet or other technologies, must be licensed, just like a traditional store," emphasizes especially the White House, without defining the number of weapons from which after an individual classified in this category.

The White House stressed that, despite the gaps, the current control system has enabled the 15 years to prevent the sale of almost two million firearms that could fall into "bad hands". And therefore considers it reasonable to be strengthened.

To ensure better implementation of existing laws, Obama also proposes setting up a 200 new jobs within the Federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms (ATF). It proposes also to Congress an investment of 500 million. Dollars for the improvement of mental health care.

"The tradition of the gun"

"Decisions of the President for weapons represent a major victory for public safety," he responded on Twitter by New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg, who has long been involved in this battle.

Before you even learn the precise content of the presidential proposals, Republicans already vehemently denounced the initiative.

"Soon we will no longer be able to acquire weapons," he flew his lapidary style billionaire Donald Trump, head of the race for the presidential nomination of the Republican Party.

At the same frequency, the repoumpikanoi candidates for the White House promised to remove at once any measure in this regard. "From my first day in office, all these decrees will disappear", assured Senator Marco Rubio of Florida.

Opponents of strengthening laws on weapons invoke the Second Amendment of the Constitution provides that "can not be challenged the right of the people to own and bear arms."

But this paragraph, ratified in 1791, offered in many ermnineies, located in numerous court proceedings.

The President of the House of Representatives, Republican Paul Ryan denounced "contempt" of the president to the Americans who insist on this amendment: "Bring as the citizen's right to bear arms is something that is merely tolerated and such He reiterated the Supreme Court in 2008, something fundamental ".

Recognizing that there is "strong tradition of gun" in the US, Obama asserts that the measures will be presented, which have been tested thoroughly by the lawyers of the White House, is entirely in line with the Constitution and fully integrated in the context of presidential powers .

Medium term US President remains convinced of the need for a legislative initiative to actually address this problem.

Thursday night will attempt to convince why Americans during Q & George Mason University in Fairfax (Virginia, eastern US) which will be broadcast directly from CNN.

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