Obama considering an executive order on gun control

This'll get pretty ugly before it's over.

Doubt this will happen and right now it's all just speculation and Chicken Little talk.

Wouldn't we have to know what powers he intends to exercise?

I think you are underestimating his fear to rock the boat or try for something and have it fail or be wrong. Going off his past votes I don't think he will do anything and leave it for other people to do.

The answer is.....who knows!  It will be done under the auspices of an executive order.  Executive orders have a long history in our country, and along with that long history, an even lengthier debate.  The Constitutionality of Executive Orders has at various times in our nations history come under a great deal of question regarding their constitutionality.

Modern executive orders get fuzzy as their original purpose was to allow the president to smoothly handle what occurrs in the executive branch.  However, the problem or questions arise in instances when it appears, or can be argued that the executive order infringes upon the powers reserved for Congress.  (You know that pesky part of the Constitution where only COngress has the authority to pass laws)

So is it legal...maybe, maybe not depends on how far it goes.

I hope you are right.

On another note, I wish our politicians were as concerned & had the same amount of urgency about controlling spending as they are about controlling guns?

Well I'm pretty sure they would not do ,,,,,,,,,, oh,,,,, wait, a shiny lil thing ,,,,, never mind,,,,, something just,,,,,,,,, oh,,,,,  shiny thing......

Very ugly.

While I agree that it's still speculation I could see them using the Bush era "Homeland Security Presidential Directive" cover for trying this. 

Why would we want to do that?  Speculation and blame is more fun.

First of all...I hate Obama.  Why people think he's great is way beyond me. 

That being said...this is a news story with no actual real information, being used to, in true media fashion, scare people.  I won't get angry until something is actually done, but seeing as he's from IL, with the strictest gun laws which add to the highest murder rate in the country, I can't say that I'm optomistic. 

Was that supposed to be in red sarc font...or do you really believe he hates the United States and its citizens?  If so, wow, just wow.

I don't think it's a conspiracy theory, but I do think it's a serious lack of prioritization.  The number 1 issue in the 2008 election was the economy.  What did Obama do?  Burn all his political capital and a super majority on healthcare all while the economy stagnates.

This time around, the number one issue is the economy.  Now, he's going to burn all of his political capital on gun control and immigration.  I suspect he will do absolutely nothing to address the economy again.

I won't say  agree that he "hates the US" however I do believe that his vision of the "perfect" US is vastly different than the current state of the country, and that he wants to change things to better fit his vision of what we "should be" as a society.

I can see how some people would call that hate.

Why would you want to "fundamentally transform" something you love or cherish?

It's not a matter of if it's new or not, it's not.  The use of executive orders date back to the 1800's.  The question is are they, any of them, Constitutional?

Right, and the GOP controlled congress has done nothing but deal with jobs, jobs, jobs.  Glad they have done that instead of waste their time on so many social issue bills. 

Never forget.

"The most foolish mistake we could possibly make would be to permit the conquered Eastern peoples to have arms. History teaches that all conquerors who have allowed their subject races to carry arms have prepared their own downfall by doing so.  Indeed I would go so far as to say that the underdog is a sine qua non for the overthrow of any sovereignty. So let's not have any native militia or police. German troops alone will bear the sole responsibility for the maintenance of law and order."
         --- Adolf Hitler

Note: I am in no way condemning our POTUS as a Nazi.  The perspective and possibility of evil on a much larger scale is dismissed in our country as impossible.  But we are young.