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WHAT THE FUCK IS THIS?
THIS is what everyone had their knickers in a twist about?
THIS is what had Sean Hannity hyperventilating?
THIS is a fucking joke.
THIS is feelgood measures.
THIS is a President saying listen to the children. I did and have done something about it. No, not the children here around me but the dead children of Sandy Hook.
THIS is Barack Obama and his crew shamelessly using the ghosts of Newtown to advance a political agenda without doing anything at all.
Which is typical of this crew.
Most of this centers around the tightening of background checks. Not something I object to except the way the checks are run as a whole.
For instance...
Say you attend a wedding as a young person and have just a little too much to drink. And are pulled over because you wobbled a bit. DUI.
Seven or so years later when you try to purchase a gun, with an otherwise spotless record, that DUI can keep you from buying that gun. I saw it happen just last year at my local gun dealer.
So I don't favor the background checks to begin with, at least not as they are.
There are some more onerous things in here, such as doctors asking patients about guns in the home.
My kid's pediatrician knows about my guns. And I about his. We had a grand discussion one day when the kid was down with something or the other. There'll be a fight on that anyway, especially since he is telling HHS to ignore his own Obamacare provision forbidding this (a new low for Uncle Barry, telling his own people to ignore a law he rammed through).
Number 7 & 8. . .gun owners ought to be doing this themselves anyway.
Number 11. Wait. You're executive ordering yourself to (finally) nominate an ATF Director. Ummm. . . is that like listening to the voices in your head?
(ATF should be a convenience store, not a Federal Agency).
And then there's some mental health stuff in their, so he can say to the pro-gunners See! I listened to you, too!
As for his legislative proposals he needn't have bothered. Boehner's "we'll take it under advisement" attitude pretty much said Ok Folks, let's put the chairs on the table until next time.
So all this was done to mollify his base. Mollify the anti-gun crowd. So that when it likely doesn't go through he can say "See, it was the Republicans that stopped it!" And provide a bit of cover for his democrat pals who really didn't want to get on board with this and now don't have to stand in open defiance of their President and vote against it to pacify their constituents or go against their constituents (and lose their jobs) and vote with their leader.
He did it because Uncle Joe said he would, to save face and look tough. But he knew there was no way the NRA and 80,000,000 screaming bitter clingers (Do we have any bitter clingers in the audience tonight?) would quietly let him get away with Constitutional circumvention on this.
Meanwhile the real heavy lifting on mental health issues can be deftly avoided.
This is all shit. Pissing in the wind.
It is nothing more than Whistling Past The Graveyard of the Ghosts of Sandy Hook.
Fox:
READ: Full List of 23 Executive Actions in Gun Violence Reduction Measures
At President Obama’s announcement on new steps to be taken in an effort to control gun violence in the U.S., the president will sign measures which will initiate 23 separate executive actions on gun violence.
It’s important to note that not each one is actually an executive order or presidential memorandum.The Office of the Press Secretary sent out the following list of all 23 executive actions.
- When The Associated Press Says You Have A Problem...
Hot Air: AP fact check: Obama gun-control actions wouldn’t have stopped any mass shooting posted at 8:41 am on January 6, 2016 by Ed Morrissey To paraphrase Samuel Johnson: media fact-checks on Barack Obama’s claims about guns may not be done entirely...
- Dem Sen. Ed Markey Wants $10 Million A Year For Center For Disease Control To Treat Guns Like A Disease
From Mass Live: If U.S. Sen. Ed Markey gets his way, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention will again begin researching the root causes of gun-related violence in America thanks to millions in funding a bill he introduced Wednesday would provide. Markey...
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Virginia Could Soon Refuse to Enforce Federal Gun Control With proponents of gun control emboldened and opponents of gun control embattled at the Federal level, it was probably only a matter of time before states started trying to flex their muscles...
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Ok, I am not a big Alex Jones Fan but this is inexcusable. Had Jones suggested something like this in reverse well, you know. . . Interesting note, the only lawyer on the panel, Gloria Alred (ugh), doesn't seem amused. Meanwhile, there's this...
- Woot!
Black Friday supposedly set some kinds of records for purchases. What was left out of the story was that a great many people were simply buying things for themselves that they couldn't ordinarily afford the rest of the year. And that includes handguns....
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Whistling Past The Newtown Graveyard
WHAT THE FUCK IS THIS?
THIS is what everyone had their knickers in a twist about?
THIS is what had Sean Hannity hyperventilating?
THIS is a fucking joke.
THIS is feelgood measures.
THIS is a President saying listen to the children. I did and have done something about it. No, not the children here around me but the dead children of Sandy Hook.
THIS is Barack Obama and his crew shamelessly using the ghosts of Newtown to advance a political agenda without doing anything at all.
Which is typical of this crew.
Most of this centers around the tightening of background checks. Not something I object to except the way the checks are run as a whole.
For instance...
Say you attend a wedding as a young person and have just a little too much to drink. And are pulled over because you wobbled a bit. DUI.
Seven or so years later when you try to purchase a gun, with an otherwise spotless record, that DUI can keep you from buying that gun. I saw it happen just last year at my local gun dealer.
So I don't favor the background checks to begin with, at least not as they are.
There are some more onerous things in here, such as doctors asking patients about guns in the home.
My kid's pediatrician knows about my guns. And I about his. We had a grand discussion one day when the kid was down with something or the other. There'll be a fight on that anyway, especially since he is telling HHS to ignore his own Obamacare provision forbidding this (a new low for Uncle Barry, telling his own people to ignore a law he rammed through).
Number 7 & 8. . .gun owners ought to be doing this themselves anyway.
Number 11. Wait. You're executive ordering yourself to (finally) nominate an ATF Director. Ummm. . . is that like listening to the voices in your head?
(ATF should be a convenience store, not a Federal Agency).
And then there's some mental health stuff in their, so he can say to the pro-gunners See! I listened to you, too!
As for his legislative proposals he needn't have bothered. Boehner's "we'll take it under advisement" attitude pretty much said Ok Folks, let's put the chairs on the table until next time.
So all this was done to mollify his base. Mollify the anti-gun crowd. So that when it likely doesn't go through he can say "See, it was the Republicans that stopped it!" And provide a bit of cover for his democrat pals who really didn't want to get on board with this and now don't have to stand in open defiance of their President and vote against it to pacify their constituents or go against their constituents (and lose their jobs) and vote with their leader.
He did it because Uncle Joe said he would, to save face and look tough. But he knew there was no way the NRA and 80,000,000 screaming bitter clingers (Do we have any bitter clingers in the audience tonight?) would quietly let him get away with Constitutional circumvention on this.
Meanwhile the real heavy lifting on mental health issues can be deftly avoided.
This is all shit. Pissing in the wind.
It is nothing more than Whistling Past The Graveyard of the Ghosts of Sandy Hook.
Fox:
READ: Full List of 23 Executive Actions in Gun Violence Reduction Measures
At President Obama’s announcement on new steps to be taken in an effort to control gun violence in the U.S., the president will sign measures which will initiate 23 separate executive actions on gun violence.
It’s important to note that not each one is actually an executive order or presidential memorandum.The Office of the Press Secretary sent out the following list of all 23 executive actions.
Today, the President is announcing that he and the Administration will:
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.
- When The Associated Press Says You Have A Problem...
Hot Air: AP fact check: Obama gun-control actions wouldn’t have stopped any mass shooting posted at 8:41 am on January 6, 2016 by Ed Morrissey To paraphrase Samuel Johnson: media fact-checks on Barack Obama’s claims about guns may not be done entirely...
- Dem Sen. Ed Markey Wants $10 Million A Year For Center For Disease Control To Treat Guns Like A Disease
From Mass Live: If U.S. Sen. Ed Markey gets his way, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention will again begin researching the root causes of gun-related violence in America thanks to millions in funding a bill he introduced Wednesday would provide. Markey...
-
Virginia Could Soon Refuse to Enforce Federal Gun Control With proponents of gun control emboldened and opponents of gun control embattled at the Federal level, it was probably only a matter of time before states started trying to flex their muscles...
-
Ok, I am not a big Alex Jones Fan but this is inexcusable. Had Jones suggested something like this in reverse well, you know. . . Interesting note, the only lawyer on the panel, Gloria Alred (ugh), doesn't seem amused. Meanwhile, there's this...
- Woot!
Black Friday supposedly set some kinds of records for purchases. What was left out of the story was that a great many people were simply buying things for themselves that they couldn't ordinarily afford the rest of the year. And that includes handguns....