Thread: Carney: Obama to implement more executive action after Navy Yard shooting

Carney: Obama to implement more executive action after Navy Yard shooting

Joe Newby
Policy & Issues Examiner

September 17, 2013

According to spokesman Jay Carney, President Obama is set to implement more executive action in the wake of Monday's Navy Yard shooting, CBS Washington reported Tuesday.

“The president supports, as do an overwhelming majority of Americans, common-sense measures to reduce gun violence,” Carney said, parroting a familiar White House theme.

Even though Carney admitted it would be it would be “inappropriate” to talk gun control so soon after Monday's shooting, he said “we will continue to work to take action to improve gun safety, reduce gun violence in this country through executive action, and hopefully Congress will take action to reduce gun violence as well.”

Carney, The Blaze said, shied away from discussing gun control early in his remarks, but later vowed action.

“These are unfolding facts in an unfolding situation and investigation,” he said. “As the president said, the fact that this took place on a military installation, men and women who understand the risk when they are assigned overseas, certainly do not imagine they are taking those risks when they showed up for work this morning at a domestic military installation.”

“So it would be inappropriate to try to put in context something about which we have so few facts,” Carney added.

It was another Democrat -- Bill Clinton -- who insured that military bases would be gun-free zones.

Breitbart.com observed that one of Clinton's first acts was to disarm U.S. soldiers on military bases.

"Clinton's actions birthed Army regulations 'forbidding military personnel from carrying their personal firearms and making it almost impossible for commanders to issue firearms to soldiers in the U.S. for personal protection,'" AWR Hawkins wrote.

"In other words, thanks to Clinton, citizens who join the military to use guns to defend liberty abroad cannot practice their constitutional right to keep and bear arms while on active duty at home," Hawkins added.

Carney did not specify what executive actions Obama would take to further erode the Second Amendment right to keep and bear arms.

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