Frank Z
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Do not use your EBR as an oar when canoeing.....lesson learned.:dunce:
I don't know, but he's been damn good for the county.
http://news.blogs.cnn.com/2013/01/16/obama-to-announce-gun-control-proposals-shortly/I cant find a legitimate breakdown of what he E.O.s were. Anything worth noting?
http://news.blogs.cnn.com/2013/01/16/obama-to-announce-gun-control-proposals-shortly/
These orders are in addition to laws that Obama wants Congress to pass. Here, according to the White House, are what the 23 executive actions will do, without congressional approval:
1. "Issue a presidential memorandum to require federal agencies to make relevant data available to the federal background check system." Same inter-agency information sharing that post-9/11 was supposed to occur... the CIA and FBI hate each other and will not share information, no matter what the objective.
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." Ya know that HIPPA privacy statment you always get from your doctor? -- fugitaboutit! Your health, particularly the moving-target-mentally-ill definition is the ATF's business...
3. "Improve incentives for states to share information with the background check system." Privacy? Fugitabouit - keep in mind the state maintained lists of ccl's when considering this point as well (and "incentive" means to dangle federal funds like a friggin carrot).
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." I wonder what new "categories" of "dangerous people" might be developed? The new-mentally ill? Remember in Missouri 2 years ago when official LEO memos dictated that anyone with a Ron Paul sticker on their car might be a "right wing terrorist"...
5. "Propose rulemaking to give law enforcement the ability to run a full background check on an individual before returning a seized gun." Seriously? This means that you, lawfully open carrying, get stopped and the officer asks to secure your weapon during your encounter for his own safety. you comply. Now your weapon is not returned until they have completed a "full background check" on you... hopefully you don't fall into one of those "categories" of "dangerous people", like "people who open carry"...
6. "Publish a letter from ATF to federally licensed gun dealers providing guidance on how to run background checks for private sellers." Ah, paper, merely to imply that FFL's don't know how to run a check and guns are "slipping by" all the time to "dangerous people"... obviously not the case.
7. "Launch a national safe and responsible gun ownership campaign." LOL.I got nothing on this one, just rhetoric.
8. "Review safety standards for gun locks and gun safes (Consumer Product Safety Commission)." Implies these devices don't work, and millions are dying because of them, as well as creating the impression that turning your gun into a club makes you more safe... to quote Rooster Cogburn, "if ain't loaded, it don't do much good" -- same for trigger access in an emergency
9. "Issue a presidential Memorandum to require federal law enforcement to trace guns recovered in criminal investigations." Like they don't already? please.
10. "Release a DOJ report analyzing information on lost and stolen guns and make it widely available to law enforcement." Wonder if it will include guns "lost" to mexican drug cartels...
11. "Nominate an ATF director." Can't we just get it over with and call him a "gun czar"?
12. "Provide law enforcement, first responders, and school officials with proper training for active shooter situations." Much like usual government training to the masses in robbery situations: "be unarmed, be submissive, don't challenge, don't endanger officer safety, recite the official line after the fact... if you survive"
13. "Maximize enforcement efforts to prevent gun violence and prosecute gun crime." i.e. expand "pre-crime" arrests of "dangerous people"
14. "Issue a presidential memorandum directing the Centers for Disease Control to research the causes and prevention of gun violence." Well, the CDC is doing such a bang up job preventing DISEASE, I'm sure they'll knock this one out of the park... anyone else concerned that "gun violence", and perhaps possession, would be investigated as a "disease"?
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." More on those newfangled "clubs"
16. "Clarify that the Affordable Care Act does not prohibit doctors asking their patients about guns in their homes." Love that info collection on "dangerous people" -- great if you go get your "free" physical, and while you're turning your head to cough you get put on a terrorist watch list...
17. "Release a letter to health care providers clarifying that no federal law prohibits them from reporting threats of violence to law enforcement authorities." That moving target definition of "mentally ill" is going to expand, and expand, and expand... until only a LEO cleared by the Gov and "properly trained" is suitable to defend themselves (and the rest of us nutbags, since we'll be disarmed
18. "Provide incentives for schools to hire school resource officers." My wife is a teacher -- there is not a school (in this state) without a resource officer already... wonder what "incentives" they have in mind anyways.
19. "Develop model emergency response plans for schools, houses of worship and institutions of higher education." Again, "duck, cover, don't fight back, wait till the perp off's himself, then the police will come. good luck"
20. "Release a letter to state health officials clarifying the scope of mental health services that Medicaid plans must cover." Do I even need to point it out, again?
21. "Finalize regulations clarifying essential health benefits and parity requirements within ACA exchanges." and again...
22. "Commit to finalizing mental health parity regulations." and again...
23. "Launch a national dialogue led by Secretaries Sebelius and Duncan on mental health." and, finally, again...
They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.
Benjamin Franklin
It behooves every man who values liberty of conscience for himself, to resist invasions of it in the case of others: or their case may, by change of circumstances, become his own.
Thomas Jefferson
So my concern are not these particular items, it is maintaining liberties. It is not increase in govment control that will prevent violence. It is us, the people, making a change. Increasing laws will only reduce our freedoms and grow the governments ability to control, unchecked. If we want to make a change in violence we ought to consider a method constructed by our efforts and utilizing the rights already provided to usLiberty has never come from Government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it. The history of liberty is a history of limitations of governmental power, not the increase of it.
Woodrow Wilson