Mike Huckabee responds to Obama’s gun remarks
Republican presidential candidate and former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee joined Yahoo News and Finance Anchor Bianna Golodryga to react to President Obama’s announcements today about executive actions on guns in America. Huckabee strongly disagreed with Obama’s announcement: “We all want to get rid of gun violence. We all want to make sure that people are safe, but I just wish the president would look through the real problem and recognized that it’s not only a problem we have to confront, but there’s a process with which we have to go through. That process is the constitutional process of going through Congress and the legislature.” He continued, “The president, once again, is using an overreach of executive authority to do some things that I just don’t think he has the constitutional authority to do.”
Huckabee said the president’s proposed measures are unconstitutional. He told Golodryga: “I do think that the Fifth Amendment is pretty explicitly clear that you can’t deny someone constitutional rights without due process. People have a constitutional right to protect themselves, their families and their homes. If you’re going to take that right from them, there has to be a process. That process has to involve the individual to dispute whether that right should be taken away. In this case, there is no process other than a medical person reports to the government and the government, perhaps, rescinds that basic right.”
Huckabee also said he agrees with the Republican frontrunner, Donald Trump, when he said Obama wants take away guns from Americans. Huckabee said: “I honestly think that most of us, deep down, think that if the president could get away with it, he would like to not only limit the number of firearms a citizen owns, but also what kind of firearms. … He’s intimated this many times. … One of the reasons that many Americans, quite frankly, hear the president and they’re just not able to accept his proposal is because they don’t trust him.”
Finally, Huckabee cited his time as governor of Arkansas as how Obama should be governing. He said: “President Obama has never had to deal with a hostile environment like I had to. He had a majority in the House and Senate for a while. When he had that, he never brought gun measures to the House and Senate — why didn’t he? If this was so important to him, how come he didn’t bring it? And now that he has not a majority, he at least now has the responsibility from the standpoint of how to govern to bring people individually together and to listen to their concerns and try to incorporate them, and understand he may not get everything he wants. But he’ll get nothing that he wants when he completely demonizes the other side, which is exactly what he’s done today.”
