I suspect some conversations in the White House the last few days

went something like this:
"I want an Executive Order banning this and licensing that!"
(various Democrats)"Are you trying to DESTROY us?"
"I have a pen!"
"And we don't have to support your crap! We want to STAY in these offices, and if you do this- it's an ELECTION YEAR, you idiot!  Just stick with "We must be tolerant", and hit on the no-fly list; enough people will believe that that it'll get you through your speech without killing us."


Etc.

So we get a speech that
"I have everything under control.
The important thing is to make sure we don't offend any muslims.
I want you to let me take your guns away based on a secret list that we don't even have to tell you if or why you're on it."
Borrowing from Insty,
Because when people are talking about gun control, they’re not talking about Obama’s many failures, ranging from the failures of vetting and counterterrorism that may have led to the San Bernardino attacks themselves, to Obama’s foreign policy debacles in Syria, Iraq, Afghanistan and Libya, to how the #BringBackOurGirls hashtag campaign against Boko Haram accomplished nothing, to how Putin is running wild in Eastern Europe, to Obama’s plans to import more poorly-vetted refugees from Muslim countries that foment terror or the still-anemic economy that has left far too many Americans unemployed or underemployed despite years of “recovery".