Obama has recently come out with 23 executive orders pertaining to gun control. These have been met with reactions from both sides of the issue, but really neither side should be feeling what they currently are.
On the one hand yes, Obama is making strides to increase gun control. He hasn't done anything in his presidency thus far to take away any rights granted by the 2nd Amendment, and he still hasn't. Assault weapons are already regulated heavily, and most of these new orders are dealing with those. They are also extremely minor initiatives with very little teeth. Supporters should not be happy with these orders, because if the goal is to cut down on gun violence then Obama has done nothing to help them. Handguns are the prevalent weapon in homicides in the United States, not assault weapons. These orders do almost nothing to take handguns away from people, and therefore will not cause a notable decrease in gun violence in the long term.
With many of the executive orders not controlling gun ownership, or making any major new strides in the attainment of guns pro-gun advocates should not be as enraged as they are. Weapons are dangerous, and therefore must be regulated. Obama has not crossed any Constitutional rights lines when talking about the freedom to have guns in a private home. Calm down, he hasn't set the police on a mission to enter people's homes and confiscate legally owned guns. He has only attempted to strengthen the powers to combat what is already illegal. A far more invasive law pertaining to personal rights is California's laws on using protection during intercourse in the adult film industry, but that is a whole different issue.
Essentially what I'm trying to say is, calm down everyone and examine your positions a little more before reacting. Neither side should be reacting as strongly, or in the general way, that they have at this point. More remains to be seen as this issue may never find a real balance between the two sides to agree on.
