press conference

[fustigate]

It'll be interesting to see what they think #7 should be: "Launch a national safe and responsible gun ownership campaign."

 

[vooduchikn]

This is where he goes softly and then waits for congress to not pass anything.

**Wait for next "big" news worthy shooting event to happen**

He then submits that congress has failed and claims that if he had been given the power to do what he wanted in the first place, none of this would have happened. He needs to act through EO to prevent another "emergency".

Bait and switch, smoke and mirrors. This is how absolute power is taken and it isn't the first time it's happened.

Whats with using little kids as emotional triggers? Very very classy. Thats also been done before.

I think I just threw up in my mouth..a little - and I need some more tinfoil.

 

[sanjuro893]

It'll be interesting to see what they think #7 should be: "Launch a national safe and responsible gun ownership campaign."

Yeah. I thought the NRA does that already. "OH! But we can't have the EVIL GUN LOBBY teaching gun safety! That would make total sense!"

 

[fustigate]

Yeah. I thought the NRA does that already. "OH! But we can't have the EVIL GUN LOBBY teaching gun safety! That would make total sense!"

Civilian Marksmanship Program, then, perhaps??
Orrrr maybe he was referring to activities for National Gun Appreciation Day on Saturday...

 

[sureNsteady]

A better list showing what the action is and who is responsible for getting it done.

 

[MoBoost]

A better list showing what the action is and who is responsible for getting it done.

Excellent. Thanks.

 

[AKguy1985]

yeah, i watched it. All the E.O.'s look like a bunch of feel good b.s.

 

[JRF01]

So which list is correct? Both of these links are posted in this thread and they each have different things in them?
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/201...plans-to-take-as-part-anti-gun-violence-plan/

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/special/politics/obama-gun-proposals/index.html

 

[Old Fart]

Perhaps it was this?

List of executive actions



Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/politics/201...as-part-anti-gun-violence-plan/#ixzz2IA1PyeOC

If so, I'm not seeing anything devastating,or I overlooked it.

Isn't about half of this stuff he should have been doing all along?

 

[Murph]

These are just my thoughts about what these EO's could be used for. IANAL

1. Issue a Presidential Memorandum to require federal agencies to make relevant data available to the federal background check system.

3. Improve incentives for states to share information with the background check system.

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.

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.

I think these are an effort to do an end run on the Tiahrt Amendment

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.

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.

14. Issue a Presidential Memorandum directing the Centers for Disease Control to research the causes and prevention of gun violence.

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.

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.

This will probably give the CDC official standing to regulate firearms on health issues. Also these will change the rules about who is mentally unfit to own a firearm. Expect to see the unfit criteria to be expanded, and the reporting agency rules eased. Remember the 2nd Amendment only protects hunters and sane people.

8. Review safety standards for gun locks and gun safes (Consumer Product Safety Commission).

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.

This will probably give the CPSC standing to regulate firearms. I expect this will also broaden the criteria in judging if a gun accident was negligent, and expanding the punishment if so. This will also require additional 'safety devices' that not only raise prices, but will literally break usability, rendering a gun inoperable and useless.

11. Nominate an ATF director.

Yeah that's the problem, we don't have a director for the ATF. What happened to the last one? Wasn't he caught up in the 'Fast and Furious' debacle?

7. Launch a national safe and responsible gun ownership campaign.

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.

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.

This is more of the same old BS, Oh boy look!!! He is going to launch, provide, maximize, and develop, all this really super intelligent stuff. Our problems are over.

Now then let us engage in vehement and angry quarrels over just how stupid we each are for disagreeing with each other and let this administration get back to what it does best...