The Gun Fights

The fight for gun control is on. The President is calling for stricter gun laws and the NRA and others are personally attacking him for this. Many don't want to see any regulations or restrictions on gun laws at all, finding even the idea of stricter background checks and bans of military-grade assault rifles attacks on liberty.   People are refusing to see what the Obama administration has called for as reasonable, though it is. Out of fear, the NRA and media have hyped the new proposed bans, regulations, and laws to be monstrous, and overbearing, a violation of personal liberties. It seems anything this President does will be given a negative spin.

The President made an attempt to empathize by saying that he enjoys shooting skeet for sport. This created a huge media frenzy, begging for photographs of the President shooting a gun. It is amazing how little privacy we allow the President (or any celebrity figure), just assuming that we are entitled to the details of his leisure life and time with family.

Of course, as soon as a photo was released, the media decides to backtrack, saying that one measly photo doesn't make up for all his laws and campaigns for gun control, his voting record, etc. 

The Daily Show did a parody of this last week, playing on a Dr. Seuss book. Watch here! 

Gun control will be an ongoing discussion during the President's second term, and we will have to see what sort of compromise is made.


--Megan