Posted January 5, 2016 4:13 pm by Comments

By Kaitlyn Schallhorn

President Barack Obama’s announcement of his executive action on gun control is nothing more than a “childish temper tantrum,” according to one GOP House member.

A gun owner herself, Rep. Diane Black (R-Tenn.) scathingly slammed the president immediately following his unveiling of his planned executive order to increase gun control. During his announcement, Obama said that, in order to protect innocent people, some “constraints on freedom” are acceptable.

“President Obama’s contempt for the 2nd Amendment — and the constitutional separation of powers — is well documented but that does not entitle him to this childish temper tantrum,” Black said in a statement. “This is nothing more than a cheap stunt by a lawless president looking to seal a political legacy in the last months of his failing administration.”

Rep. Diane Black (R-Tenn.) takes her seat for a House Budget Committee hearing. (Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call)

“The specific proposal the president has put forth may be more narrowly tailored than, say, his illegal executive amnesty — which, by the way, is still on hold through a court order — but it isn’t any less unconstitutional,” Black told TheBlaze. “For a president who bragged in his speech about having taught constitutional law, he ought …Read the Rest

Source:: The Blaze

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