OBAMA WAS ’ANGRY’ AFTER SENATE KILLED GUN CONTROL
Former Senior White House advisor Dan Pfeiffer admits that one of President Obama’s angriest moments in the White House was after the Senate blocked his push for gun control.
“I think one of the most angry I’ve seen him was after the Senate failed to pass background checks in 2013,” Pfeiffer explained in an interview with broadcaster Charlie Rose.
Pfeiffer admitted that the Sandy Hook Elementary shooting was one of the most “emotional” moments in Obama’s presidency thus far. The Senate’s refusal to act on any form of gun control, however, infuriated the president.
“There was probably no issue that better exemplified the dysfunctionality of that Congress, that an issue like backgrounds checks with 90 percent support could be defeated only a few months after a tragedy like Newtown,” he said. “Like if you couldn’t do it then you know when in the future could you possibly do it?”
People tend to forget just how anti-gun Obama and his administration is, primarily due to the fact that not much has changed federally under his watch. This does not mean he did not try in vain.
Don’t forget that his Attorney General, Eric Holder, publicly declared that his biggest failure was not getting gun control passed. This administration had gun control at the top of their agenda.
However, this is where America’s political system shines. Despite what he wanted, despite his party wanting it and being the majority, despite there being a tragedy to help enhance their plea – Americans by a large majority simply refused more gun control.
Unlike New York State, where Governor Cuomo was able to take the Sandy Hook tragedy and force the NY SAFE Act on the people of New York State, President Obama could not get enough nationally elected officials to destroy their careers by enacting more gun laws; and it pissed him off.
Is it wrong to be gleeful imagining this gun grabber fuming and stammering in his office, yelling at his stooges for not getting him enough votes?
Despite his executive overreach in many other areas, gun control has simply been off limits to him thanks to all the hard work done by gun rights advocates on behalf of the majority of Americans who favor the right to bear arms without burdensome restrictions.
Despite the success we have had in preventing this administration from enacting new gun laws, we must not pretend the threat doesn’t exist. There are many well funded organization and politicians still out there who will stop at nothing to disarm Americans.
