Fox Guest Debunks Conservative Media Myth About Obama's Actions To Curb Gun Violence

Center For American Progress' Emily Tisch Sussman: Obama's Executive Actions “Make Sure The Laws That Are On The Books Actually Can Be Enforced”

From the January 15 edition of Fox News' America's Newsroom:

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KEVIN MCCULLOUGH: If we're talking about effective prevention of crazy people and people that are unstable from getting guns, we should probably start by enforcing the hundreds of laws that are on the books currently that the current administration seems to have zero desire to enforce to begin with. And the Charleston, South Carolina shooting was a prime example. None of the executive orders that the President just put into play -- unconstitutionally some would argue -- would have done anything to prevent Dylann Roof from committing that crime. He did not go through a background check, as is the law of the land. And when we do not enforce the laws that are there, the only measure of defense that is left for the average citizen is to defend myself.

EMILY SUSSMAN: Yeah, I would actually encourage us to get into the president's executive orders, because much of what he did is actually to staff up and make sure the laws that are on the books actually can be enforced. And I'm glad that you brought up the Charleston loophole, which is the default proceed, which means that if someone goes to process a background check and they can't get the information back within three days, then they proceed with it anyway. Because part of the reason they couldn't proceed with it is because ATF has been so gutted, so understaffed that they can't get these processes through in time. So what the president's executive order did was actually staff up that procedure, make it 24 hours so you wouldn't have to go to default proceed. So actually, that's exactly on point to what the executive orders would do.

Previously:

Right-Wing Media Wrongly Insist President Obama's Executive Actions On Guns “Change The Law”

Fox Host Falsely Claims Obama's Executive Actions On Gun Violence Threaten The Second Amendment

Myths And Facts Surrounding President Obama's Executive Actions On Gun Violence