Posted on 01/12/2013 7:03:20 PM PST by Seizethecarp
The Center for American Progress is recommending 13 new gun policies to the White House — some of them executive actions that would not require the approval of Congress — in what amounts to the progressive community’s wish list.
CAP’s recommendations, presented Friday to White House officials and detailed in an 11-page report obtained by The Washington Post, establish a benchmark for what many in Obama’s liberal base are urging him to do after last month’s massacre at an elementary school in Newtown, Conn.
CAP’s proposals — which include requiring universal background checks, banning military-grade assault weapons and high-capacity ammunition magazines, and modernizing data systems to track gun sales and enforce existing laws — are all but certain to face stiff opposition from the National Rifle Association and its many allies in Congress.
On Monday, Tanden will moderate a public discussion with three Democrats who have played leading roles in the gun debate: Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel, who during the Clinton administration helped get the 1994 assault-weapons ban passed; Sen. Charles E. Schumer (N.Y.), who helped write that bill as a House member; and Rep. Mike Thompson (Calif.), who chairs the House Gun Violence Prevention Task Force.
One of CAP’s suggestions to toughen federal regulation of gun sales is to make the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, which is currently an agency within the Department of Justice, a unit of the FBI. CAP says absorbing the ATF into the FBI would better empower the ATF to combat gun crime and illegal trafficking.
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Personally, I was never really that turbed to begin with. So I can’t really having turb taken from me.
If that's a she. Sometimes you get a suprise.
/johnny
Now that you mention it, the hands are a little manly...
I does not like haZing a surprise...Forget the phone number. In this respect I will remain a purist. Why take the chance? ;)
Funny how it only takes one time finding bits that aren't supposed to be there to attune you to that. The joys and trials of young airmen. ;)
/johnny
I think,were I to find myself in such a situation, the would would find itself with one or possibly two less people in it. But one for sure. Lots of therapy MIGHT avoid the other...
No therapy required.
But it does make you careful.
/johnny
Hearts and minds...hearts and minds...
Nope. Death. Then therapy followed my life as a Monk somewhere north of Siberia. Alone. At best. Preferably after a lobotomy.
Edit...”BY” life as a monk.
Groups like this are against honest citizens owning guys BUT they NEVER seem to be against criminals committing crimes. And usually they tend toward the ‘soft on crime’ areas...
: )
‘Normal’ has changed quite a bit over the past 10 years.
But then, they are ‘politicians’.
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