Posted on 01/16/2013 9:33:47 AM PST by Jeff Chandler
1. Issue a Presidential Memorandum to require federal agencies to make relevant data available to the federal background 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 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.
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 the Centers 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.
Zactly!!!
What a load of meaningless BS.
So much for cutting the Federal budget. More government makework jobs.
The emphasis on mental health sounds good. (All the shooters were whacked out on psychotropics.)
I think they intend to start using the health care system to classify gun owners as having a mental problems.
Looks like raising the wrong finger........
Or slipping through the Crack cocaine like here in Detroit. Sure all the gang bangers will properly respect gun purchase procedures and mental health checks.
14. Issue a Presidential Memorandum directing the Centers for Disease Control to research the causes and prevention of gun violence.Stop. I'll save you the time, effort, and our money.
How often, Dr. do you masturbate? Because that certainly would have an impact on your medical decisions regarding my health.
Hilarious!!!!! If we accept the irrefutable premise that the categories of 'dangerous people' include people who direct straw purchases of thousands of semiautomatic 'assault' rifles and cause them to be delivered to Mexican drug cartels, does the lying, cowardly AG Holder have a slight conflict of interest???? Oddly, in all of these 23 executive actions, nowhere appear such terms as gunrunning and straw purchases. Just for openers, how many FEDERAL laws did Holder violate or direct others to violate, in the course of his management and control of the F&F operations? How many of Holder's violations were felonious, leaving aside his totally disgusting and as yet unpunished lies to Congress.
Depends on the definition of "certified nut".
Have you, OR ANY MEMBER OF YOUR HOUSEHOLD, ever seen a psychiatrist of psychologist for depression, anxiety issues, PTSD, or any other psychological issue?
Would you be comfortable with that medical data being stored in a gun-check database?
If a psych is sent a governmental query about you, asking him to certify that you are OK to own a firearm, what percentage of psychs will stick their necks out to so certify? Will their liability insurance provider even ALLOW them to give a positive answer to such an official query?
I've been saying this for awhile. Almost every malady today is met by a doctor suggesting an SSRI like Paxil or Effexor. Even Cymbalta is recommended for pain now. Anyone taking these meds will be looked at differently in the future. Almost every cop I know, (my daughter is a Deputy Sheriff) is on something after a few years on the job. I complained about insomnia and the doc says I need Cymbalta for my back pain keeping me awake. My mom died, another attempt to prescribe SSRI. Almost every time I walk in with a cold, he tries to get me on an SSRI. 25 million people are taking SSRI's now. Are we a nation of "Stepford Wives" now?
My neighbor was on 5mg a day and wanted to quit. He slumped into a weeping pile of gooo and wanted to kill himself. The doc said "Why are you trying to stop?"
I know 3 friends personally enough to know they cannot stop once they start. It's like watching someone withdraw from Heroin.
I'm absolutely sure you won't keep your guns if you take these meds. They will make it seem you are on the edge of mass murder if you just feel a little weepy after your divorce.
Like prosecuting those in the White Hut who LIED to Congress about their involvement in the gun running operation known as Fast and Furious that armed narcoterrorists and led to the deaths of thousands?
Regardless of current law & just to be snarky, what the hell does he think they’ll find ... a “gun” gene that you can manipulate with genetics? Or maybe, more along the lines of Obama’s previous/current behavior, they’ll see if they can find something to call a “gun” gene and then recommend that if a child has it, that they should be promptly aborted ... not unlike Downs Syndrome or other disabled babies. Of course, that “gun” gene will only show up if the parents are conservative.
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.
If this means what I think it means, it requires legislation to get around privacy laws.
3. Improve incentives for states to share information with the background check system.
That sounds like spending our tax dollars. Perhaps the druggie in our White House should ask Congress first.
11. Nominate an ATF director.
I missed that! Our Dear Leader didn't even fill that position?
12. Provide law enforcement, first responders, and school officials with proper training for active shooter situations.
I think he means ask Congress for the money he plans to waste on ineffective training.
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.
Go ahead, but most responsible gun owners don't want to make it harder to use their firearms. i will not pay extra for a less effective weapon.
16. Clarify that the Affordable Care Act does not prohibit doctors asking their patients about guns in their homes.
Let me clarify this. Doctors are limited on what they may ask my children. Those who cross inappropriate boundaries will be fired.
18. Provide incentives for schools to hire school resource officers.
Spending even more of our money without Congressional approval? He sure likes being dictator; too bad the Constitution is inconveniencing him.
While the devil is in the details, the only thing that makes me uncomfortable is all the doctor/mental health stuff.
First, I believe that those with mental health problems that could be potential violent or unstable should possibly under the right conditions be more easily involuntarily committed and prevented from having firearms while committed.
On the other hand, I have seen abuse of committing people as insane in both the USA and Russia/USSR. My concern is that somehow in the details a doctor may be required to ask a patient if they have a firearm and if the answer is yes, they be required to ask a whole bunch of questions to see if the person can be labeled as paranoid, delusional, or some other “classification” that will be noted on their health insurance record, become part of the federal firearms background check database, and be flagged to their medical insurance carrier who will basically say that this is a reason to put them into a different category of health insurance and will result in changes in auto insurance, home owners insurance and a host of other financial problems.
Hopefully the Health Insurance Portability and Privacy Act (HIPAA) medical information privacy regulations are strong enough to prevent general practitioner speculation on mental health from being widely shared with the government and insurance carriers. What scares me is that health insurance is soon to be an IRS activity.
"Obama To Announce Stringent Gun Control Actions"
Headline Today:
"Obama Punts"
No worries...
The CDC is too preoccupied with promoting B F’ing and abortion, to study this.
The shrink community isn’t going to do anything that would discourge patients from paying $300/hr. for listening to them whine.
9. Issue a Presidential Memorandum to require federal law enforcement to trace guns recovered in criminal investigations.
How about requiring fingerprinting, photographing and serial number checks for guns collected at gun buy backs.
My pyschitrist has never asked me. lmao
Oh heck yes! We are not out of the woods by any means.
The separation of powers has a lot to do with this since it was Congress that passed the original Assault Weapons Ban, not a sitting President. So had he come out with essentially the same thing, it would have been challenged on many counts. So I think he blinked on many counts. The whole medical piece is still disconcerting since under Obama Care they have access to ALL our medical records, there no longer is any doctor/patient privacy. You have Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts to ‘thank’ for that one. Could they deny firearms ownership to anyone who they determine is medically unfit to own a firearm thereby nullifying their 2nd Amendment rights? If so, not sure how they will get around even the existing Obama Care law since the NRA made sure language was included that it would NOT be used to determine firearms ownership?? Below is the language found on page 2037 of that monstrous law:
“LIMITATION ON DATA COLLECTION- None of the authorities provided to the Secretary under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act or an amendment made by that Act shall be construed to authorize or may be used for the collection of any information relating to–`(A) the lawful ownership or possession of a firearm or ammunition;`(B) the lawful use of a firearm or ammunition; or`(C) the lawful storage of a firearm or ammunition...”
Still bottom line IMHO is there continues to be a major threat to our rights since if they cannot nullify the 2nd amendment one way they will seek another. They never give up, nor should we when it comes to protecting ALL our rights as enshrined in the Constitution and Bill of Rights. Too many Americans paid the ultimate price to defend those rights to have us give them up to anyone, foreign or domestic.
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