Republican presidential candidate Carly Fiorina said Sunday that President Barack Obama's plan to issue a set of executive actions to put more gun laws in place in the absence of congressional action is not only wrongheaded, but completely "lawless." Fiorina said on CNN's State of the Union that both the president and Hillary Clinton are "delusional" and "dangerous" for focusing on issues such as gun control.
“President Obama has been a lawless president in his use of executive orders, whether those executive orders are around immigration or whether those executive orders are around gun control,” Fiorina said, according to The Wall Street Journal.
She added that by focusing on gun control, Obama and Clinton have the wrong priorities.
“It is delusional, dangerous, not to mention unconstitutional for Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton to continue to talk about climate change and gun control in the wake of a Paris terrorist attack, a San Bernardino terrorist attack, instead of talking about a plan to defeat [the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria],” Fiorina said, The Hill reported.
Like others in the 2016 Republican field, Fiorina said that Obama should enforce the laws already on the books rather than putting new laws into place.
“The thing the president should be doing on gun control… is enforcing the laws that we have,” Fiorina said. “We have long lists of criminals who own guns, who routinely purchase guns. We know who these people are, and we are not prosecuting any of them.”
“I think we need to enforce the laws we have, and we are not doing so.”
That sentiment was echoed by Donald Trump on CBS' Face The Nation. "I don't like it," Trump told host John Dickerson, according to CBS News. "I don't like anything having to do with changing our Second Amendment. We have plenty of rules and regulations."
