Pelosi Threatens Future National Emergency On Gun Control

[carbinemike]

Wasn't it Barry Obama that said he could rule with a phone and a pen? Pelosi is threatening that a future democreep president could declare a national emergency and arbitrarily enact gun laws. I'm not sure how that would work as we have no Constitutional requirement to have an open southern border. Wasn't it Barry

Obama that said he could rule with a phone and a pen?

All in all the "national emergency" seems to have become a joke. Since the law was signed in 1976 we have had 58 national emergencies of which 31 are in effect and renewed each year. Check them out here:https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/list-31-national-emergencies-effect-years/story?id=60294693

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) warned Republicans on Thursday that they should worry about the “threshold that they are crossing” by supporting President Donald Trump’s expected declaration of a national emergency at the border because it could open the door to future Democrats in the White House declaring a national emergency on issues like gun control.
With Trump expected to sign a spending bill to keep the government open and declare a national emergency to get more funding for his border wall, Pelosi said Republicans “have some unease about it no matter what they say” because “if the president can declare an emergency on something that he has created as an emergency, an illusion that he wants to convey, just think of what a president with much different values can present to the American people.”

Pelosi said she is not advocating presidents doing an “end run around Congress,” but warned that a “Democratic president can” declare national emergencies as well on issues like gun control, and “the precedent that the president is setting is something that should be met with great unease and dismay by the Republicans.”

“You want to talk about a national emergency? Let’s talk about today—the one-year anniversary of another manifestation of the epidemic of gun violence in America. That’s a national emergency,” Pelosi said, in reference to the one-year anniversary of the Parkland shooting. “Why don’t you declare that a national emergency, Mr. President? I wish you would.”

She emphasized that Republicans should “have some dismay about the door that they are opening, the threshold that they are crossing” with Trump’s expected declaration of a national emergency at the border.

 

[Water Monkey]

Do it. Ban alcohol too.

 

[Ernst]

She should read the Constitution!

 

[John A.]

Would be a quick way to light a fuse.

 

[CaddmannQ]

Nancy is throwing a tantrum, huh?

Who woulda thunk it?

I wonder if she notices that almost nobody in California registered their "assault weapons"?

Congress can push all the paper they want but real Americans will not give up their guns.