Spurred on by the recent shootings at Umpqua Community College, President Obama is planning to issue executive orders on gun control, according to White House officials,
"It's a high priority and will continue to be until we start to see more progress on this issue in this town," White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest told reporters Monday at the press briefing, according to Breitbart.
Reporters expressed skepticism at this declaration saying that if executive action on guns was a possibility it would have been done by now.
"I don't have a lot of details to provide you in terms of the work that's being done by the President's team to do this scrub of the available authorities that the president may have to address gun violence," Earnest said, according to the Daily Caller.
He admitted however that he had little information on what the White House was working on, and the process is "ongoing."
This development has been met with a range of responses from those who saw the annoucement with some praising the President for taking action, while others criticized the President for using the shooting to push his political agenda.
However, one thing that some point out is that by doing this, Obama is violating the Constitution.
His role as President is to enforce the law, not make them. Thus by usurping power from the legislative branch and consolidating it in the executive branch, he is ignoring one of many of the laws he is supposed to obey and enforce, reported Young Conservatives.
