President Goes on the Attack Against Assault Weapons...And More

UPDATE : Oregonian sheriff will not enforce new gun laws. Others follow suit. Read More:  From CNN.com

UPDATE :  Part of the president's gun control initiative involves your doctor. The NRA has issues with this. 

"The idea that your doctor would ask you if you have firearms in your house as part of an examination of your health is repugnant," National Rifle Association President David Keene told Fox News on Thursday, accusing the administration of trying to "demonize firearms" by implying that owning them is a "health problem." Read More: Tell Your Doctor If You Own A Gun

President Obama has launched his much publicized assault on guns, rolling out his plan of action which includes a ban on so-called assault-type weapons, limits on high capacity magazines and criminal background checks. These will be issues Congress will have to deal with and there is sure to be opposition. Read More: Restrictions on Assault Weapons & Magazines

The President also is invoking the Executive Order privilege  on a list of 23 items as part of his overall plan. Read More:  Gun Control Measures by Executive Order

The National Rifle Association cast its opposition to Obama’s plans as “the fight of the century” in a letter circulated at the 35th annual Shooting, Hunting, Outdoor Trade Show and Conference, known in the trade as “the SHOT show,” in Las Vegas. Read More: NRA Gears Up For Fight

The NRA also released a TV ad calling the president an "Elitist Hypocrite" because he has armed Secret Service protection at his kids school while being skeptical about putting armed guards at your kid's school. click to view:

Not surprising, the president did not go after the movie or video game industry in his assault on guns. After all, He and Hollywood are best buds. Former GOP Arkansas Gov. and presidential candidate Mike Huckabee told Newsmax.com, “I must have missed the president's proposals to ban Hollywood movies in which actors use destructive weapons, but, then, he would have to challenge the Hollywood pals who financed his political career instead of those who oppose him.”
We witnessed the height of hypocrisy in the last few weeks with actor after actor in TV ads coming out publicly pushing for strict gun control laws, even as they were brandishing the best in weaponry in their latest flicks. We've been told for years that violence in movies has an affect on human behavior. Likewise, the violence in video games played by teenagers today is especially daunting. Read More: President Ignores Movie Industry in Gun Plan

My Take: The president said the background checks on gun sales are the single most effective way of preventing incidents such as Newtown, Conn. Background checks will work for the law-abiding citizen who want to own a gun. The criminal who knows he won't pass a background check will steal a gun or buy it off the black market. Others, such as the Newtown shooter, will get them from their home, the gun belonging to a family member or friend who passed a background check. Banning assault rifles will not totally extinguish them. If a criminal wants one, he knows where to get one. Why anyone thinks they need one, I have no idea. If a hunter thinks he needs one with a 30 round clip to blow away a defenseless animal, he doesn't need to be hunting. 
I have no problem with the 

average, law-abiding citizen owning a gun for personal protection of family and property. I'm a staunch believer in the second amendment.  As for the NRA video depicting Mr. Obama as an "Elitist Hypocrite," I would be the last to deny his family Secret Service protection. He is, after all, the President of the United States, and justly deserves the security afforded the office. But parents will argue their children, in today's seemingly out of control culture, deserve protection at their kid's school as well. Since the president seems to be addicted to spending at will the taxpayer's money on endless and failed programs (such as the "green" industry with bankrupt companies such as Solyndra), he can spend money wisely with a federal armed officer protection program...an officer in every school. Money well spent!

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