Taya Kyle: President Acting Unilaterally On Gun Issues Is Not Right

PHILADELPHIA (CBS) - Taya Kyle, the wife of 'American Sniper' Chris Kyle, discussed her experience participating in a town hall forum with President Obama and asking him about his executive action expanding background checks on gun sales.

During an interview with Dom Giordano on Talk Radio 1210 WPHT, Kyle said she feels the apprehension of guns rights advocates is too easily dismissed by the President.

"I think that a lot of the people on both sides of the issue, they have hope and they have fear...The issue of freedom, when [President Obama] says, well nobody is getting their freedoms taken away, that's not true, but I think the other fear on the side of people who want to be able to have their guns is that one person, a President, is going to make an executive decision that's going to change the law for everybody and that's a fear because that's not right."

Ultimately, Kyle believes that the President's actions will do little to curb gun violence or stop mass shootings in America.

"Unfortunately, it's easy to give people hope by just spouting out rhetoric and it's easy to make a law and have people say, I hope that that will change things. But the truth of the matter is, if you look at the facts, those new laws have a very low possibility of changing anything, only because we look at the fact that we have 33,000 laws on the books already. We look at the fact that only forty percent of people lying on background checks [are only] being prosecuted federally."