Hensarling: President Using Personal Tragedies of Americans to Justify Anti-Gun Agenda

WASHINGTON—U.S. Congressman Jeb Hensarling (R-TX), chairman of the House Financial Services Committee, released the following statement in response to President Obama’s planned executive actions that would infringe on American’s 2nd Amendment rights.

“By his own admission, the executive actions President Obama announced today would have done nothing to prevent the recent and horrific mass shootings he is using to justify his actions. Nor would these executive orders do anything to prevent terrorists and violent criminals from obtaining guns. What it will do is erode the constitutionally guaranteed right of law-abiding citizens to ‘keep and bear arms.’ 

“In short, President Obama is doing nothing more than using the personal tragedies of Americans to justify his anti Second Amendment agenda in the worst manifestation of Rahm Emanuel’s counsel to ‘never let a crisis go to waste.’ Instead of using straw-man arguments to double down on his contempt for law-abiding gun owners, the president should direct his administration to enforce the laws on the books and work with the people’s elected representatives in Congress to address the real causes of gun violence, like mental illness.”

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