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Purrfessor

(1,188 posts)
Wed Jan 16, 2013, 11:28 AM Jan 2013

Gun Control: FOX News: We Report, You Decide. Not exactly.

I just ran across this Google link posted 12 minutes ago and thought I would read the linked article. Silly me. Of course FOX cannot allow their readers access to this information. The page is no longer available.

Our Constitution does not forbid gun control | Fox News
www.foxnews.com/.../our-constitution-does-not-forbid-gun-c...Share12 minutes ago – In 1968, President Lyndon B. Johnson signed an executive order in ... President George H.W. Bush used his executive authority under the 1968 law to permanently ban the import of 43 specific firearms including modified versions of the ... an executive order banning over 50 types of assault weapons.

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Gun Control: FOX News: We Report, You Decide. Not exactly. (Original Post) Purrfessor Jan 2013 OP
Re: Gun Control: FOX News: We Report, You Decide. Not exactly. Dpm12 Jan 2013 #1
Welcome Angry Dragon Jan 2013 #6
I've decided. jambo101 Jan 2013 #2
Re: I've decided Dpm12 Jan 2013 #3
and what is your view on his views? NRaleighLiberal Jan 2013 #4
My spidey billh58 Jan 2013 #7
Re: and what is your view on his views? Dpm12 Jan 2013 #9
thanks for clarifying for me - that is a relief to hear! NRaleighLiberal Jan 2013 #10
Try here... jmg257 Jan 2013 #5
Good article.... Purrfessor Jan 2013 #8

Dpm12

(512 posts)
1. Re: Gun Control: FOX News: We Report, You Decide. Not exactly.
Wed Jan 16, 2013, 11:47 AM
Jan 2013

That's why I hate FOX News. They just wanna bitch about Obama all the time. Has FOX News forgotten about (once upon a time) a wonderful man and president named George W. Bush. Please, they wouldn't know a good president with their eyes closed.

Dpm12

(512 posts)
3. Re: I've decided
Wed Jan 16, 2013, 11:59 AM
Jan 2013

My grandpa is as right-wing as can be and says that FOX News isn't wrong, they are just actually willing to admit Obama's bad.

jmg257

(11,996 posts)
5. Try here...
Wed Jan 16, 2013, 12:07 PM
Jan 2013
http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2013/01/16/what-everybody-needs-to-know-about-our-constitution-and-gun-control/

"Quick draw Republicans in Congress, intent on stopping any gun-control proposal from the Obama White House, are way off target when they accuse the president of violating gun ownership rights under the Constitution.

Gun control is completely consistent with the Second Amendment right to keep and bear arms. And President Obama is on target with the great American tradition of proposing gun control laws for Congressional approval as well as by issuing executive orders on gun control.

The only opinion that matters here is the Supreme Court’s opinion. And the high court has ruled, several times, that the president, the Congress, state and local government all have the power to regulate guns. The Court reaffirmed this interpretation as recently as 2008 in the landmark case, District of Columbia vs. Heller.

Article II of the U.S. Constitution clearly grants Obama and any other president the authority and the discretion to issue executive orders with the force of law over the sale of guns and ammunition."

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Purrfessor

(1,188 posts)
8. Good article....
Wed Jan 16, 2013, 12:38 PM
Jan 2013

I'm glad to see that it is available but not sure why the Google link led to a FOX News page that said the article was no longer available. Odd.

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