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    Will presidet's plans really help?

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-- Fox News alert we are waiting for President Obama to unveil his new gun control proposals.

About forty minutes from now the president expected to step to the microphones to outline his plan.

To reduce gun violence in this country.

Everyone agrees such atrocities as the massacre at sandy hook elementary school in Connecticut should never happen again.

But the debate over how to prevent another tragedy is dividing Americans.

Let's talk about a -- Washington times columnist Charlie hurt Charlie I read your column this morning you have some concerns about what you think the president is up to here.

Yeah indeed.

You know among the proposals that we've heard about coming out of the White House.

Not a single one of -- -- in this is not -- do really indisputable not a single one of them would have done anything to change.

What happened in Newtown.

And it just one of the many sort of paradoxes about this whole debate about this whole effort.

-- to go after guns in the wake of the of this horrible unspeakable tragedy.

That that has a lot of people sort of scratching their -- saying whoa are are are you.

Actually trying to to fix a problem here or are you just trying to look like you're fixing a problem without actually addressing a lot of the the really scary.

Underlying issues -- -- May be art -- fixed with those new federal law.

But rather fixed by sort of having a huge national conversation.

About.

Violent videos.

The violent movies out of Hollywood and and and the proper.

Responsible gun ownership kind of interest -- we our our.

-- living under the administration probably the most liberal president maybe since FDR.

And yet you suggest that liberals ought to be outraged and are not by some of what is to come in this announcement forty minutes from now.

And rightly so in under the last administration.

Liberals were outraged at this at the signing statements and and and a lot of the that you that the efforts by the the President Bush's administration to sort of coalesced more power into the executive branch and away from the legislative branch.

Liberals were outraged by that and and rightly so and and Republicans should have actually listen to some of that.

We're seeing the exact same thing now accepted to a far greater degree where you -- you even have the senate.

Begging the president to take away its its authority to raise the debt ceiling my goodness -- where is the liberal outrage I don't understand why liberals.

Are not hanging from the chandeliers over this this sort of unprecedented.

-- power grab and then with all of the talk about guns and I realize that there's sort of on a different.

Wave length about guns but the fact that there's so many of these laws are are so difficult to get passed through congress maybe that ought to tell us something about what.

The American people actually want the such as the fact that that they don't really want these laws.

And and that.

I don't know why liberals don't don't get up in arms about that.

Charlie heard from The Washington Times we're gonna see what kind of outrage there is after the president makes these announcements.

Charlie now -- now thanks John.

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