Republican presidential candidates response to president’s orderFrom cartoonist Clay Jones about ‘A Petulant Child,’ the response of Chris Christie and other Republican presidential candidates to the president’s order, and the cartoonist’s fantasy world
It’s on now. Finally, after seven years of Republicans and other assorted crazies warning us that Obama was coming after our guns (your guns actually. I don’t own any), it’s finally happening. Who’s crazy now? Well, the crazies are still crazy. The executive orders Obama is putting into action aren’t taking anyone’s guns away.
What the orders will do, or attempt to do, is kill the gun-show-loopholes and online purchases that allow people to buy guns without background checks and increase funding for mental health treatment and staff for the FBI and ATF agents.
Chris Christie said the president is “acting like a petulant child.” Marco Rubio said it’s “a war on the Constitution.” Donald Trump said, “Pretty soon you won’t be able to get guns.” Ted Cruz — not to be out-crazied by Trump — said, “The president is once again going to abuse his power to try to seize our guns.” Ben Carson advised the public to hide their guns in the pyramids (I made that up). Carly Fiorina said “Go Hawkeyes and beat my alma mater Stanford.” (I didn’t make that up, but she wasn’t talking about guns. She was merely pandering on a historic level).
One guy who’s not running for president, Speaker of the House Paul Ryan, said Obama was “at minimum subverting the legislative branch, and potentially overturning its will.”
All of those statements were said before the plan was revealed but after their checks cleared from the National Rifle Association.
In a response to the president’s order, the Republican presidential candidates and members of Congress promised to buck the NRA and do all they can to prevent more senseless gun deaths, especially those of children. They promised to improve upon the president’s orders and pass effective sensible gun legislation to decrease gun violence and protect all American citizens. Nah! I made that up too.
From claytoonz.com
Instead of using executive order to make slightly more difficult to get guns, why doesn’t Obama go all the way and make murder illegal? If that doesn’t stop crazy murderers and terrorists then nothing will.