Why would you pass another law when the administration fails to enforce the current laws that are on the books. Why pass another one that's not going to be enforced either?
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The American people deserve to know exactly which laws the Obama Administration is refusing to enforce and why.
It certainly makes no sense to enact more laws if we cannot, or do not, enforce the ones we have.
A fair question could be posed in this fashion: If people are not obeying existing laws, what makes us think they would obey any new laws?
You know why there's a Second Amendment? In case the government fails to follow the first one.
Under our constitutional system, the executive executes the laws that Congress has passed. It should not be executing laws that Congress has rejected.
When a president makes up law as he goes, no one knows what the law is anymore.
We have to ensure we are aggressively enforcing existing laws.
Instead of saying we need to outlaw certain types of weapons, we need to find better ways to enforce current law.
I think Congress can pass a bill when the American people start regaining trust in the administration to actually do their job and enforce the laws that are already on the books.
In our administration, we're going to follow the law, and any policy that we move forward will fall well within the law and the Arizona Constitution.
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