The following is a list, provided by the White House, of executive actions President Obama plans to take to address gun violence.
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.
Seems like anyone who has been on anti-depressants at any time will not get approval for a gun.
ReplyDeleteThat's not me.
10% of Americans are on anti-depressants. Nearly twice as many women are on them as men. But what is that number when you include at any time in the last 10 years? 30%? 40%? 50%?
And what about anti-psychotics and other mood altering drugs?
I'm not making a judgement right or wrong here. Just pointing out the potential of a lot of American's to lose their right.
Oh, and what about people that smoke dope or do cocaine?
Just thinking out loud.
That's actually a fair point LS. But, setting aside anti depressants, which are way overprescribed, I'm not sure that I really have a problem with someone on anti psychotics not being allowed to have a gun. Depression is one thing, schizophrenia is another. A truly, clinically depressed person is probably not going to have the strength or mental capacity to go on a shooting spree. Someone with personality disorder, borderline depression or so on may be a different story, but I don't believe the majority of those types are going to pull off a mass shooting either.
DeleteThat so many people are on anti depressants is the free market at work.
The mentally ill used to be comitted to an asylum where they could be treated and removed from society. No more,states found that they could save money by doing away with mental institutions and just keeping the mentally ill drugged up. So, the dangerous loonies are now out on the streets. I really feel sorry that these fine citizens might lose their right to buy a gun or two.
ReplyDelete"Nothing the president is proposing would have stopped the massacre at Sandy Hook. ... Rather than sweeping measures that make it harder for responsible, law-abiding citizens to purchase firearms, we should focus on the root causes of gun violence and keep guns out of the hands of criminals and the mentally ill." - Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla.
Delete"we should focus on the root causes of gun violence and keep guns out of the hands of criminals and the mentally ill." - Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla."
DeleteI'd really like to hear what he believes the root cause is. I'd also like to hear his plans to keep guns out the hands of criminals and the mentally ill without background checks.
Nothing Yet, Obama always has a fall guy for the ugly stuff, this time it was Joe Biden was brought in for gun control.
ReplyDeleteIf passed, Feinstein’s Gun Ban would:
ReplyDelete*** Ban the sale, transfer, importation, and manufacturing of 120 specifically named rifles, shotguns and handguns!
*** Ban the sale, transfer, importation and manufacturing of ALL firearms with a detachable magazine and at least one "military characteristic" -- which could mean just about anything that makes a gun "look scary;"
*** Ban the sale, transfer, importation, and manufacturing of magazines holding more than 10 rounds;
*** Force owners of ALL "grandfathered" weapons to undergo an intrusive background check and fingerprinting -- treating law-abiding citizens like criminals;
*** Force owners of ALL "grandfathered" weapons to federally register their guns after obtaining a permission slip from local law enforcement showing their guns are not in violation of state or local law.