Posted on 01/05/2016 9:06:42 AM PST by RC one
Saying that America faces a "gun violence epidemic," President Obama is taking "a series of commonsense executive actions" to reduce gun violence Tuesday, the White House says. First among the measures: tighter rules on background checks for gun buyers.
President Obama will discuss his plan during a live address from the East Room of the White House at 11:40 a.m. ET; you can watch it here. We'll update this post with news from the president's speech.
(Excerpt) Read more at npr.org ...
puke-a-thon.
What a snarky bastard he is. ... Good God! Now he’s starting to preach.
Oh great now Biden is trying to cry
The idiot prez who is purportedly a self-described constitutional scholar apparently has never read the constitution, doesn’t understand the constitution and hates the freedoms it guarantees. Quite a prez. What a malignancy on this country. May he rot.
He had better hope that I never catch him alone in a dark alley somewhere.
After record gun sales, the retard with 12 months left in office is really going to burn jet fuel selling this?
I thought it was what we all wanted? What does he have to “sell”?
Ping.
Hundreds of ATF thugs now added to the payroll.
He’s crying because he might not get his way. In his warped narcissistic mind everyone MUST agree with him because he is the anointed one. He has no respect for individual rights. He believes his role is to rule over us as a king by divine right, and that his every whim should be our controlling force.
Glad I missed this act...my BP thanks me...lol
Oh me tooooo...so busy at work. I heard about it, that was enough!
here we have the bony phony turd with a tie passing another edict for his subjects. Amazing that the “Republicans” are sitting on their collective hands, DOING NOTHING!
The Gutless Other Party might as well stay home and whimper because they certainly aren’t standing up for the America we grew up in.
Andrew Malcolm
Political News & Commentary
ObamaCare Extended To Policing Gun Ownership
BY THOMAS MCARDLE
11:09 AM ET
“If you like your gun, you can keep your gun” is definitely not anything you’ll be hearing from President Obama soon.
You may never have thought that a simple visit to the doctor could lead to the FBI breathing down your neck, but the president’s new executive actions on gun control could lead to just that, mortally wounding the long-established presumption of doctor-patient confidentiality.
Obama’s directives apparently trump long-standing federal rules preventing doctors from disclosing mental health matters. Now the executive branch will “expressly permit certain HIPAA (Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996) covered entities to disclose to the National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS) the identities of individuals who are subject to a Federal ‘mental health prohibitor’ that disqualifies them from shipping, transporting, possessing or receiving a firearm.”
Currently, if a doctor discloses a patient’s private information without that patient’s authorization, the physician could be sued for malpractice or invasion of privacy. The president now apparently wants violating that confidential bond to be treated as an act that promotes public safety.
And the question of “mental health” is entirely subjective. If you tell your doctor you woke up Monday morning feeling like killing yourself, or that your spouse made you mad enough to reach for your hunting rifle, will that warrant a call to the FBI? Will a federal SWAT team then pounce, just in case you have a gun or two in the house? Such law enforcement overreach is by no means an outlandish scenario.
The ObamaCare database, it turns out, was only the beginning of this administration’s violations of the medical privacy of Americans. Now doctors are set to be enlisted in the nation’s federal gun police.
http://news.investors.com/010516-788091-obamacare-extended-to-policing-guns.htm
I’m sure that will speed up NFA item tax stamp requests. /sarc
Nothing was offered that would in any way impact the rate at which young black men and innocent bystanders in Chicago fall to the ground, injured, maimed or dead of a gunshot wound.
Prosecuting some mythical black marketeer who was selling guns out the back door, the so-called “gun show loophole” would not contribute to any measurable degree to “illegal” gun possessions on the street.
Don’t make me Obama.
Hell, I’m surprised there not (yet) a Pube whom is not running for the camera to ‘reach across the aisle’ for MORE ‘common sense’ (never, of course, starting with repealing that which is known/shown to NOT work).
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