At yesterday’s hearings on Gun Control, the ever-unhinged NRA mouthpiece Wayne LaPierre repeated one of the standard “Republican” lines: that we do not need new laws until President Obama enforces the existing ones. Sounds reasonable until you remember that:
Number A: the biggest impediment to the enforcement of existing laws is the Teapublicans’ persistent defunding of the government agencies who are charged with said enforcement. These Right-Wing fools expect our public safety resources to do more and more, while simultaneously refusing to pay them for so doing. Repubs must think money magically appears when needed, perhaps delivered by perky little fairies riding unicorns.
Letter 2: it is not Obama’s job to enforce each and every law on the books. No one person can do that. It takes thousands of people at all levels of government to do so. And they, too, have had their authority undermined, staffs reduced and budgets slashed by the “conservative” “Republicans”, to the point that they can barely do anything to enforce any laws at all.
Tell you what, Waynie old buddy old pal: give the cops the money and resources they need to enforce existing laws before you trot out that line of B.S. again.
Mr. B & C
bluntandcranky 
Well put! I would add too that they need to put their money where their mouth is when they talk about improving mental health services. I would naturally suspect that many of the same gun-toting wingnuts that LaPierre represents also consider the health care reform law (“Obamacare”) to be an intolerable infringement upon their constitutional rights and that it needs to be repealed despite its attempts to improve Americans’ access to health care services, including mental health care. If Mr. LaPierre is truly concerned about improving mental health services, maybe he can help persuade his fellow wingnuts to abandon their quest to repeal and/or eliminate funding for ACA and start advocating for beefing up mental health services funding at the state and local levels as well. I doubt it will happen, unfortunately, because his words are about as hollow IMHO as the cause he does strenuously advocate for.