By Jueseppi B.
Time to break out the jack hammers and chisels.
Watch President Obama Announce Proposals for Sweeping Gun Control Legislation
Published on Jan 16, 2013
For more: http://www.pbs.org/newshour/
President Barack Obama announced a series of gun-control measures on Wednesday — including proposals for enhanced background checks and a ban on military-style assault weapons — that are aimed at reducing gun violence after the mass shooting at an elementary school in Connecticut last month. The measures are a mix of what Obama wants Congress to take and moves that the White House can accomplish without congressional approval, through executive orders.
Gun Violence Reduction Executive Actions
Today, the President is announcing that he and the Administration will:
1. Issue a Presidential Memorandum to require federal agencies to make relevant data available to the federalbackground 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 rule making 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 theCenters 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.
President Obama hugs children who wrote letters to the White House about gun violence, (L-R) Hinna Zeejah, Taejah Goode, and Grant Fritz, after announcing the administration’s new gun law proposals in the Eisenhower Executive Office building, on January 16.
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Jueseppi B.
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Yes, this is historical and no doubt the broadest gun control ever proposed. Thank you, Jueseppi…excellent post!
Thank you Ms. Marion for this reblog.
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Thank you much for this reblog.
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Who put out that nasty-ass statement (?) that was something about Obama’s kids get full protection so we should allow ours to. That is fucked up. Seriously? Any and all pres’s get death threats all the time, But especially Obama, and we all know why.
The NRA released this video…..
It was a freakin’ ad from the NRA??? Somehow this doesn’t surprise me, but this is way way way too low. Even for them.
Did you watch the ad…..the nra might as well just come out and say “the past 43 caucasian POTUS deserved Secret Service protection for their caucasian children but this nigger does not deserve Secret Service protection for his black children.”
Thats what I took from the ad….because nobody has ever complained about protection for a POTUS before, and nobody is complaining about the protection given to ex Presidents and their immediate families now.
I couldn’t agree with you more. The NRA has pulled the ad from their website, but so what… it made it around the world before they did. It’s been uploaded all over and I’ll bet they will do anything about copyright infringement on this one only because they WANT it to be up and playing all over the world.
At one point in the ad, though, I did agree with them, but not for the same reasons… They said “…gun-free zones for ours [kids, meaning schools].” Well, isn’t that what most people want (except the NRA, obviously)? Schools to be gun-free?? In my opinion, this makes them look even more horrible than ever before because they want to see schools packed with guns. Heathens!
The NRAssholes are becoming more unnecessary than John McCain. Hope you’re having or had a great hump day.
I had to hold physically hold my chest to keep my heart from jumping out. So glad I have normal pressure because this anger me to the point where I could have stroked out. I am beyond disgusted with this animals. We may as well prepare for this fight. They have gone mad and are like rabid animals right now.
I just wanted to find an NRAssholes and beat him to a pulp with a Louisville slugger.
LOL…thank you for understanding, Jueseppi. I know the right wing and NRA are losing. But the dust they create can be confusing. We must continue the fight and keep Obama’s back. In solidarity…
United we stand….Umoja!!
You know I must have been upset yesterday by all the grammar errors I made, lol.
I didn’t even notice….
It’s ironic how the gun lunatics are responding to the new laws which were in place before but somehow were eradicated.I suppose an African American President should not have the same authority to make changes for the good of the Country.To refer to him as being a hypocrit and elitist because his children are receiving the same security as all Presidents children,is repugnant and disgraceful coming from the NRA and their cohorts.0
Now Ms. Kimbrough, you know whats good for the past 43 caucasian Presidents…is not good for this Black American President. You do realize Barack Hussein Obama is not qualified or is not entitled to the same stuff the 43 “white folk” get….right?
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Thank you for this reblog.