“The president is going to act. Executive orders, executive action, can be taken,” Biden told reporters on January 9th. “We haven’t decided what this is yet, but we’re compiling it all with the help of the attorney general and all the rest of the Cabinet members.”
“I’m convinced we can affect the well-being of millions of Americans, and take thousands of people out of harm’s way, if we act responsibly.” Responsibly, yes, but again, is this not merely opportunistic? The Newtown shooting and the Aurora shooting were clearly sensational, they grabbed the medias attention, they put guns on everyone’s lips. But does that truly account for an emergency, or justify any shortcut in legislation?
The White House’s procedure seems to be ordering endless lobby groups, special interest groups, the NRA, and Wal-Mart to meet and discuss the problem. Victim’s groups will have their say. A whole lot of input seems to be the beginning of the “compilation.”
Obama has also established a new task force, which includes members of the Cabinet and other government officials, promising “concrete proposals” by the end of January.
Perhaps an emergency situation, a mass panic, is the quickest and most profound way to snap new legislation into place. A slow bleed gets less attention than a gush. Nevertheless, when the president decries our culture as one that “glorifies guns and violence,” the rhetoric is up, and who knows but if justice is down?
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