Yeah… kinda expected Our Benevolent Overlords in Washington would entertain this route:

Vice President Joe Biden revealed that President Barack Obama might use an executive order to deal with guns.

“The president is going to act,” said Biden, giving some comments to the press before a meeting with victims of gun violence. “There are executives orders, there’s executive action that can be taken. We haven’t decided what that is yet. But we’re compiling it all with the help of the attorney general and the rest of the cabinet members as well as legislative action that we believe is required.”

Yup. Screw checks and balances. Screw the will of the people. They know what’s best for us. Of course, the reason for taking this route is there would be less opposition, because they know what they want to do is unpopular and will receive one hell of a fight.

And no, I don’t like Executive Orders no matter who is doing them for whatever “good” reason they do them.

Of course, the “if it saves just 1 life” line was trotted out:

Biden talked also about taking responsible action. “As the president said, if you’re actions result in only saving one life, they’re worth taking. But I’m convinced we can affect the well-being of millions of Americans and take thousands of people out of harm’s way if we act responsibly.”

Well Vice-President Biden, I present you with this:

The 15-year-old boy and his 12-year-old sister had been home alone in the Mount Royal Village subdivision when around 2:30 p.m. a pair of burglars tried the front and back doors, then broke a back window.

The teenager grabbed his father’s assault rifle and knew what to do with it.

Looks like that teenager’s use of an AR-15 saved two lives… and not just any two lives, but 2 children. So by your line of reasoning, Mr. President and Mr. Vice-President, since it saved two lives, then keeping our AR’s must be doubly worth it.