The President outlined his agenda for gun control this morning. The media calls it “sweeping.” That’s not the adjective I’d use.
He wants limits on magazine capacity, a ban on “assault weapons,” and universal background checks. Those things require legislation, for which the chances look pretty grim. Even Harry Reid and Steny Hoyer have gone on the record as being pessimistic on the matter, no matter how many gruesome pictures Joe Manchin wants to run on the evening news.
So, that leaves Executive Orders, of which the President has proposed 23. Most are harmless, a couple are potentially troubling, and a couple have real merit.
None, of course, would have prevented the tragedy at Sandy Hook.
