The following is a list, provided by the White House, of executive actions President Obama plans to take to address gun violence.
1. Issue a Presidential Memorandum to require federal agencies to make relevant data available to the federal background check system.
2. Address unnecessary legal barriers, particularly relating to the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act, that may prevent states from making information available to the background check system.
3. Improve incentives for states to share information with the background check system.
4. Direct the Attorney General to review categories of individuals prohibited from having a gun to make sure dangerous people are not slipping through the cracks.
5. Propose rulemaking to give law enforcement the ability to run a full background check on an individual before returning a seized gun.
6. Publish a letter from ATF to federally licensed gun dealers providing guidance on how to run background checks for private sellers.
7. Launch a national safe and responsible gun ownership campaign.
8. Review safety standards for gun locks and gun safes (Consumer Product Safety Commission).
9. Issue a Presidential Memorandum to require federal law enforcement to trace guns recovered in criminal investigations.
10. Release a DOJ report analyzing information on lost and stolen guns and make it widely available to law enforcement.
11. Nominate an ATF director.
12. Provide law enforcement, first responders, and school officials with proper training for active shooter situations.
13. Maximize enforcement efforts to prevent gun violence and prosecute gun crime.
14. Issue a Presidential Memorandum directing the Centers for Disease Control to research the causes and prevention of gun violence.
15. Direct the Attorney General to issue a report on the availability and most effective use of new gun safety technologies and challenge the private sector to develop innovative technologies.
16. Clarify that the Affordable Care Act does not prohibit doctors asking their patients about guns in their homes.
17. Release a letter to health care providers clarifying that no federal law prohibits them from reporting threats of violence to law enforcement authorities.
18. Provide incentives for schools to hire school resource officers.
19. Develop model emergency response plans for schools, houses of worship and institutions of higher education.
20. Release a letter to state health officials clarifying the scope of mental health services that Medicaid plans must cover.
21. Finalize regulations clarifying essential health benefits and parity requirements within ACA exchanges.
22. Commit to finalizing mental health parity regulations.
23. Launch a national dialogue led by Secretaries Sebelius and Duncan on mental health.
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22 comments:
If my doctor would ask me if I had a gun in my house I would refuse to answer the question. If she insisted, I would leave her office never to return again.
wooaaaa, sounds like a socialist takeover to me!! lol
Is a presidential executive order legal?
Looks like a good start.
So which of these is so scary that the NRA folks are in full freak out mode?
what is so scary about them is that they have a very vague, ambiguous obamaesque quality about them that says very loudly, "you'll find out exactly what this means after i get you to swallow this pill."
Yes, these are all so ambiguous and vague! I mean, "provide incentives for schools to hire school resource officers" could mean "take all guns!" Developing emergency response plans for schools could secretly mean "take all guns!" Reminding states about mental health plans under Medicaid could be code for "take all guns!" Or, maybe, just maybe, they mean what they say.
1:09,
Yes, executive orders are legal and used by many, many presidents, including noted Socialist Ronald Reagan.
I am not into guns at all. Seriously. Don't have one, don't want one. I'm just nervous around them. That's just me.
Here is what is scary to me in here. These orders will invade your private health relationships. A mental health patient will not be able to confide in a counselor or shrink about disturbing thoughts without the professional having to report it in the name of gun safety.
If you lie to your doctor about having a gun in the house, will that become a crime? Or if you refuse to answer?
The invasion of our privacy by the government is getting really scary. Any of my friends can tell you I am not a conspiracy nut or even close. But this stuff is beginning to make me nervous.
So what's so bad about any of these?
"a good start" 1:24? Not anywhere do I see anything mentioned about getting a dialog going with Hollywood producers of violent movies, violent video makers or "musicians" who promote violence in their music. Nor is it mentioned to get with schools and discuss the overdrugging of children. Doens't that concern you? It should.
It only takes a person of imbecile IQ level to figure out that firearms have been a part of America's culture since it's beginning. School shooting are a new thing. Any logical person could see this isn't a firearms problem but a societal cultural one. To blame a firearm is making an excuse and being an apologist for others bad behaviour. People like you are the cause and the reason for these school shootings. Children's blood is on your hands.
Until you people address the real problem it's not going away. Outlawing heroin really did good didn't it? It's make a major comeback as never seen before. Could the reason be drug use is glorified in certain types of music?
This will turn out like everything else Obama touches. Another fiasco. He could start first by atleast attempting to be a role model instead of ghetto trash and condone violence in movies and music instead of embracing those who do it.
"Here is what is scary to me in here. These orders will invade your private health relationships. A mental health patient will not be able to confide in a counselor or shrink about disturbing thoughts without the professional having to report it in the name of gun safety."
Exactly! But do you think the fool obama would figure this out.
Those court ordered (generally the ones already to have shown violence) to see a mental health specialist are going to clam up like never before. Just like everything Obama does, not well thought out and hurrily written. And his minions without a thought in their pea brains praise this and say how great it is.
As the president of the NRA said, these are nothing more than feel good rules! No of these would have prevented Sandy Hook. But hey, they will sure make obammie and biden feel good!! Once again they spent alot of time and money doing absolutely nothing!
#11, The one I like the most is for him to nominate a director for ATF. Think about it: it has been his job to do that for four years and he needs no permission to do so. Yet he wrote an executive order, ordering himself to do the job he failed to do all along.
Gun Control is about taking guns from people. All guns. There is no such thing as a "good" gun to those pushing Gun Control. They will promise you to look the other way, just to get what they want today. But then they will come back again and take the next batch.
The Supreme Court has made this harder on them, so the new goal is to make it too expensive to own guns. Rather than ban every gun (which the Supreme Court said they cannot do), they will keep banning features until the only thing left is what Connecticut is now proposing: a one-shot rifle or shotgun. Nothing more. They also look to ban lead-based ammo. If you like expensive metal in your birding shells, imagine what a .22lr would cost made of them. Gun Control advocates and environmentalists have come close to getting the EPA to ban lead ammo and fishing tackle as a toxic substance twice in the last four years.
Maryland is going to be a tough fight. Key to O'Malley's success is going to be a promise to leave sportsmen and hunters out of it. He leaves out the last two words that you need to hear: "for now."
Don't believe your rifle or shotgun is safe from Gun Control, just because you don't like ARs. Your guns are not safe. They will circle back for yours as soon as they can. National and state leaders behind gun control have openly admitted that they intend to get to all guns eventually. It is not a conspiracy theory if they tell you what they are working to do.
Our Governor and his people in the Legislature cannot pass their laws if all gun owners in the state of Maryland stand up and make themselves known. The only way they can do it is to split gun owners up, by making those who own "Assault Weapons" look like crazed killers, while telling hunters that they are not the target. In short, they need to split us up.
Hunters understand better than others what happens to those split from the herd.
Don't be split from the herd. Don't think the NRA, MSI or other will magically fix this. Don't ignore your rights. You own them, and like the other things you own - you need to protect them.
3:06 & 4:40 can speak for me anytime ! Ditto guys i hear ya
Sorry, but without clear and concise limitations on what is required for "mental help", something as simple as marriage counseling could wind up as "Psychotic Behavior". This needs a LOT of Definitions and work before ANY action. I have to agree that these shooters were COMPLETELY crazy, but rules have to be made. The4se BS generalities sound great, but do NOTHING to address the real problem,and EVERYTHING to steal our rights.
There's a LOT of bargaining to be done!
How did guns get so evil?
I remember as a kid having guns all around me. From hunting to target shooting to home defense, guns were there.
No one was scared of them. They were just another tool. It was common to see pickups go buy with gun racks in the back window.
People would stop at a store to run in and get a sandwich or soda. Leave truck running maybe and there would be no problem.
Nobody would steal your truck or gun.
Suddenly, that has all changed. Guns are looked upon as evil. You can't leave your truck unlocked much less running.
People suddenly got scared of everything. Why?
I'm thinking of getting a new 9mm pistol any suggestions.
Sorry I'm also a lefty or should I say left handed.
"How did guns get so evil?"
Because a certain segment of the population are enablers, excuse makers and apologists. They blame an object that a human being has to operate instead of blaming the human. Everyone who blames the gun is no better than the person who pulled the trigger. Everyone who blames the gun is fully responsible for every violent death that occurs with one. The problem is much deeper and that's what needs to be addressed instead of ignored, which Obama is doing because he would offend his core voter base who never wants to hear the truth and God forbid they ever have to take responsibility. I'm not talking solely about the black community either. It's the school systems and the politicans who pander to the drug industry and have become drug dealers themselves all for the bragging rights of #1 schools. It's the movie, video and music industry which out of one side of their mouths condone guns but then glorify someone's brains being blown out with one.
Someone said that it began back in the 1960's when black kids were bused into white schools.
That is something I had never really thought of.
But now it's got me curious. I'm wondering if there is any truth to that.
Is that when our crime levels started going up?
Is that when guns became evil and everyone suddenly got scared of them?
What do you guys think?
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