While I can appreciate what President Obama was trying to say with his supportive tweet: https://twitter.com/POTUS/status/745674203286773761 I think he could have chosen slightly better wording.
I'm all for keeping guns out of the hands of criminals or terrorists (I know that is redundant). My concern is how do you do that without violating the rights of the law abiding citizens. I'm all for restricting gun sales to those on the watch lists if there were credible protections in place to guarantee due process. To me this sit-in seems like little more than a toddler's temper tantrum.
but Republican obstructionism isn't tantrum-like?
It definitely can be and has been. That still doesn't make it right. Too many people are more concerned about 'doing something' than doing the right thing. Pushing through rushed legislation without proper checks for due process is not the right thing to do. Ramming through the Patriot Act brought us the NSA surveillance nightmare. Let's not let history repeat itself.
this is sad. This is the state of the U.S government. Does anyone disagree with John Adams' forewarning?: There is nothing which I dread so much as a division of the republic into two great parties, each arranged under its leader, and concerting measures in opposition to each other. This, in my humble apprehension, is to be dreaded as the greatest political evil under our Constitution. Like a drug - the parties are now locked in a complete tantrum of their values... Completely stopping the progress of our nation, while the world keeps turning. Each side is to blame. At the end of the day - something, is better than nothing. If these cry babies had any morals preceding the constitution they claim to uphold, they would make a plan when they have majority rule in the house. A storm is coming. History is repeating itself. I plead with a U.S. senator, a family friend, years ago of the events that are unfolding now. We are paving the way for a benevolent dictator to rise among the ruling class. I don't think people realize how bad of a state we are in - and the general public seems to be complacent, and uneducated with the reality. Our nation is messed up domestically - and this isn't even close to the problems our international relations with countries will face soon if this gridlock continues much longer. A storm is coming