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Obama To Bypass Legislative Process & Dictate New Gun Control Via Executive Order
by Chad D. Baus

Buckeye Firearms Foundation

Ohio --(Ammoland.com)- Having failed in their apparent goal of creating demand for gun control legislation by allowing thousands of guns to “walk” into Mexico, White House Press Secretary Jay Carney announced on Thursday, July 7, that the Obama administration is set to impose a series of gun control “reforms”via executive order.

From The Huffington Post:

The reforms, which are being crafted by the Department of Justice, come after a series of meetings with relevant stakeholders in the Second Amendment debate. But in a nod to the difficulties of getting legislation through a Republican-run House of Representatives, only executive orders or administrative actions — and not an actual bill — are expected to be handed to Congress.

Administration officials were coy on the specifics, from the reforms the Department of Justice would recommend or when it would actually make those recommendations.

“The president directed the Attorney General to form working groups with key stakeholders to identify common sense measures that would improve American safety and security while fully respecting Second Amendment rights,” Carney said at Thursday’s briefing. “That process is well underway at the Department of Justice with stakeholders on all sides working through these complex issues and we expect to have more specific announcements in the near future.”

Just how near? Carney would only say “not far in the future.” Another administration official said weeks would be an appropriate measurement.

According to Fox News, what still remains unclear is just how far out on a limb the president is willing to go on gun control. “If he goes too far,” the report says, “the Second Amendment debate could reach great heights as the president battles for his re-election. If he doesn’t go far enough, some in his base may view him as weak on gun laws.”

The Huffington Post cheerily notes that “when the recommendations do come, it will represent the most comprehensive move on the gun control front from this administration to date,” and concludes by observing that “executive actions offer something that legislation doesn’t: guaranteed results.”

Chad D. Baus is the Buckeye Firearms Association Vice Chairman.

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Buckeye Firearms Association is a grassroots political action committee dedicated to defending and advancing the right of Ohio citizens to own and use firearms for all legal activities. Visit: www.buckeyefirearms.org

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Anti-Gun Joyce Foundation Buys ‘News’ Stories Pushing Gun Control
ad·vo·ca·cy: noun, plural -cies. The act of pleading for, supporting, or recommending; active.
by Chad D. Baus

Buckeye Firearms Foundation

Ohio --(Ammoland.com)- The Code of Ethics for the Society of Professional Journalists states that “Journalists should be free of obligation to any interest other than the public’s right to know,” and specifies that:

Journalists should:

• Avoid conflicts of interest, real or perceived.
• Remain free of associations and activities that may compromise integrity or damage credibility.
• Refuse gifts, favors, fees, free travel and special treatment, and shun secondary employment, political involvement, public office and service in community organizations if they compromise journalistic integrity.

A series of articles written by Theodore Decker and published last week in The Columbus Dispatch ignores these principles, taking advocacy journalism to a level even the founders of the SPJ probably couldn’t imagine when they adopted their first code of ethics in 1926.

The three-part series is entitled “Overrun by guns”.

In his first article, Decker cites “a Dispatch analysis of state records” which “found that in 2009 alone, law-enforcement officers in Ohio investigated 12,550 incidents in which a gun was present,” or “about 34 per day.” The analysis also reportedly found that “guns were used in 62 percent of all Ohio homicides in 2009…; 41 percent of robberies; and 24 percent of aggravated assaults, which include shootings…”

“Add to that toll the enormous medical costs,” Decker continues. “The cost of tending to the injured in Ohio averages about $37 million in inpatient hospital charges a year…”

Of Ohio’s 502 slayings in 2009, 62 percent were gun homicides, according to the FBI. …

Guns were used in 75 percent of Columbus’ homicides during the past five years, when 360 lives were snuffed out with the pull of a trigger.

The potential for use of a firearm for self-defense is not mentioned even once in any of Decker’s five articles, let alone quantified.

Gun rights activists have long-complained of the presence of an anti-gun bias in the media. They’ve always assumed that this was simply the result of the reporters’ personal bias infecting their reporting (despite the fact that the SPJ Code states that journalists should “Support the open exchange of views, even views they find repugnant.”)

But a small note at the bottom of Decker’s articles suggest there is more at work than a simple lack of professionalism from yet another anti-gun reporter….

Read the Entire Article: http://tiny.cc/5uwpn

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Buckeye Firearms Association is a grassroots political action committee dedicated to defending and advancing the right of Ohio citizens to own and use firearms for all legal activities. Visit: www.buckeyefirearms.org

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