Absolutely none of these proposed “regulations”, NONE of them, would have prevented Adam Lanza from doing what he did.
This is just a power grab, pure and simple.
1,2,3,4 Are all about increasing the information in a “Federal background check system”. Only information enumerated and approved by Congress should be allowed to be in that database.
5. We need better laws and penalties preventing unlawful seizure. There should be time limits on returning guns and the criteria for not returning one needs to be crystal clear. And there should be a quick and inexpensive appeal process to challenge any findings preventing gun return.
6. Providing background checks for private sellers may not be a bad idea. But it should require the consent of the buyer. And Congress should regulate the retention of any data collected in the process. Background checks should not be allowed to become a defacto method of gun registration.
7. Education on safety is okay but they should be prevented from promoting gun registration to states in any way.
8, 15 Safety reviews are fine. Regulations requiring private owners to have locks and safes is not.
9, 10, 14, generates useless reports.
11, 12, 13 were things they were probably going to do anyway.
16 Doctors shouldn’t be allowed to keep a record of whether people have guns in their homes. Doctors can provide gun safety information to homes of children, but they don’t need to ask to be able to do that.
17 is nonsense, I doubt there are many health care providers confusing health privacy with threats of violence.
18 Is a “school resource officer” an armed guard? If so, fine. Maybe they can double teaching a shooting class.
19 Got to stop those Bible clingers! Actually law enforcement should be working with houses of worship to keep them safe. But this one needs to be watched that it doesn’t become oppressive against houses of worship. Especially in light of Homeland’s security stance on Christians being terrorists.
20, 21, 22, 23 are all focusing on mental health. We do need to make it easier to commit a dangerous person, while at the same time, making it harder to use commitment as a means of violating a person’s rights. We made a mistake turning the mentally ill out on the street. This shooting could have been avoided if the mother wasn’t having to jump through hoops to get her son committed.
Phuk U BO.
The only thing the Gov can do at this point is punish law abiding citizens.
Really, somebody must pay for all the crime. May as well be YOU, the Taxpayers..
Obama’s style is to leave the heavy lifting to others. He knows Feinstein, Schumer, et al, will push for semi-auto bans, import restrictions, etc. — so he doesn’t have to. He knows they are unlikely to pass, and doesn’t want to appear to lose. In the meanwhile, he’ll position conservatives as soft on baby-killing.
A few things on the list might be unobjectionable, but most are ineffective bureaucratic waste as usual — study this, coordinate data that, push paper there. How much “training” do school officials need to refer a dangerous lunatic for “counseling”? What exactly has been preventing Obama from nominating an ATF director? Can’t find anyone corrupt enough? But other articles say he is proposing 15,000 more unionized police in, who’d a thunk it, urban areas that voted Obama, at a cost of $266,000 per job. It’s for the children...
The NRA has a new member.
“Finalize regulations clarifying essential health benefits and parity requirements within ACA exchanges.”
And this has what G-d asks to do with the “gun violence” issue???
Either the rogue regime blinked freaked out by arms, ammo, revolution trembles or something else planned. Why are RINOS so quiet? Maybe letting Barry and bros/hos make fools of themselves, so why intrude..
On the surface, in 8 out of 23 “orders” healthcare is involved or mentioned. As suspected Obamacare will be the Trojan horse for bypassing congress as well as the constitution.
Who needs an assualt riffle
http://youtu.be/JE9TS_V51oc
Does look like much to complain about to me. It’s surprising how often “Obamacare” (Health Care) is noted, but no real changes.
Where’s the executive order telling Eric Holder that he can’t sell guns to Mexican drug dealers anymore?
Re #14 and the Center for Disease Control and mental illness.
I have a suggestion:
If Obama and his staff are mentally ill in refusing to obey the law and uphold the Constitution, then the White House is an Insane Asylum and the Oval Office is “Crazy Central”.
I wonder if those dangerous people he wants the AG to protect us from are the kind who hang out at polling places threatening prospective voters with clubs? Nah... Probably not.
State Senator R.C. Soles (D - NC)
Long time Anti-Gun Advocate State Senator R.C. Soles, 74, shot one of two intruders at his home just outside Tabor City , N.C. about 5 p.m. Sunday, the prosecutor for the politician's home county said.
The intruder, Kyle Blackburn, was taken to a South Carolina hospital, but the injuries were not reported to be life-threatening, according to Rex Gore, district attorney for Columbus, Bladen andBrunswick counties..
The State Bureau of Investigation and Columbus County Sheriff's Department are investigating the shooting, Gore said. Soles, who was not arrested,declined to discuss the incident Sunday evening.
“I am not in a position to talk to you,” Soles said by telephone. “I'm right in the middle of an investigation.”
The Senator, who has made a career of being against gun ownership for the general public, didn't hesitate to defend himself with his own gun when he believed he was in immediate danger and he was the victim.
In typical hypocritical liberal fashion, the “Do as i say and not as i do” Anti-Gun Activist Lawmaker picked up his gun and took action in what apparently was a self-defense shooting. Why hypocritical you may ask? It is because his long legislative record shows that the actions that he took to protect his family, his own response to a dangerous life threatening situation, are actions that he feels ordinary citizens should not have if they were faced with an identical situation.
It has prompted some to ask if the Senator believes his life and personal safety is more valuable than yours or mine.
But, this is to be expected from those who believe they can run our lives, raise our kids, and protect our families better than we can.
I believe this happened some time back, but it still applies...
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Dick Rogers? The link between Ruby Ridge AND Waco.
Jamie Gorelick?
Janet Reno?
Wilson Blair?
