Taya Kyle: Obama Giving ‘False Hope’ When He Says New Laws Will Stop Gun Violence

‘Why make a new law, if there is ... 30,000 thousand gun laws on the books’

KILMEADE: "So, what did she think of the response she got from the president of the united states? Taya Kyle joins us right now. Taya, thanks so much for getting up with this after that very intense night last night. First off, before asking that question, was there a process? Did they have any idea what kind of questions you were going to ask the president?"
KYLE: "You know, I don't know if they did or not. I wrote an op-ed piece for cnn.com so it was out there. I'm not suggesting that the president had that much interest. But I think he knows the basic issues probably at this point that are going to come at him. So we did submit our questions. I don't know if they ran by the president or not. But I think there probably weren't any huge surprises for him."
KILEADE: But you knew you were going to ask the question, right? You were going to get an opportunity?"
KYLE: "I figured -- yeah, I did. I knew."
DOOCY: "OK. So you made some great points. You did not know if any of the families who were touched by gun violence would have, you know, their loved ones would still be alive, given the president's executive orders on gun control. And also you made a great point, and that is there are a lot of laws on the books these days, that simply are not being enforced. How did he react to that because that's absolutely true?"
KYLE: "Well, you know, and that is at some point later that evening, somebody else mentioned something about that, and he said, you know, it's so frustrating for him because he said every time they say that there are a lot of laws on the books that aren't being enforced, I think well yeah, because Congress cuts the budget for the ATF. That was the president's response. I guess my response to that would be, and we didn't have the opportunity to come back with our secondary questions, but the response to that would be, well, OK, if your budget is cut, then why make a new law, if there are somewhere, I heard 30,000, 33,000 gun laws on the books, and we -- we -- the federal prosecution of gun crimes, meaning and gun crimes meaning lying on background checks or the straw purchases and things like that, we're only getting 40 percent of those prosecuted in the first place under his administration. So we're not even -- you know, first of all, we're not enforcing them, we're not prosecuting, so why make another one? I think it' a false hope type thing."

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