Obama running around the Second Amendment.

[link to spectator.org]

Obama isn't as stupid as we think. He is always thinking of how to get this goal by running around the Second Amendment. He has done really well on that, thus far.

Link:But what if they didn’t need to repeal the Second Amendment to realize their goals? What if they could merely sidestep the Second Amendment to achieve de factorepeal? Knowing the realities of the political landscape, the continued popularity of firearms as a means of self-defense in America, and the protection of those rights in recent Supreme Court precedent, activists (and their allies in the federal executive branch) know that they simply cannot tilt at the Second Amendment directly. After all, this is the very reason why President Obama announced his “executive actions” — Congress has no political will to accede to their ideological demands, so he “must” act unilaterally.

That is the goal. It isn’t to increase the permitting process for individuals seeking to get licenses or to purchase firearms — the President admitted as much in his CNN Townhall meeting. The goal is to make it harder to sell both guns and ammunition, and, in doing so, to restrict the rights to self-defense without having to take on the messy Second Amendment directly.