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Rick Ungar, Contributor
I write from the left on politics and policy.
President Obama has signed 23 executive orders designed to address the problem of gun violence in America. The following are the items addressed:
Gun Violence Reduction Executive Actions:
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 itwidely 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 effectiveuse of new gun safety technologies and challenge the private sector to developinnovative 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.
It does not appear that any of the executive orders would have any impact on the guns people currently own-or would like to purchase- and that all proposals regarding limiting the availability of assault weapons or large ammunition magazines will be proposed for Congressional action. As such, any potential effort to create a constitutional crisis—or the leveling of charges that the White House has overstepped its executive authority—would hold no validity.
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I don't think that word means what you think it means. "mooted" past participle, past tense of moot, Verb, To raise (a question or topic) for discussion; suggest (an idea or possibility)
Seriously, author, it's called a space key. It's hard to take ur column seriously when you don't space ur words out. Just sayin'.
Ammunition clips were not used since WW2. You may be referring to magazine holders?
I think its hilarious when the only thing someone can complain about is your grammatical flaw. I truly believe what we are seeing is a shift in ideas/views because one generation is coming to a close and another one is taking its place. A new generation where they understand not everything is just black or white but a mixture of different ideas/values/people. I believe in the 2nd amendment and law abiding people should have the right to their guns. I also believe that my family should not be in fear of these guns. because at the end of the day, there are evil/mentally challenged people who would like to do us harm.
I was thinking that exact same thing.. I'm not a grammar Nazi but at the same time, to call someone out for spacing issues while short-handing a simple word 'your' is .. ironic.
Rick, YOU are a trained journalist (I assume). YOU submitted a story on an international outlet. He posted a comment on a web page. I have different expectations when reading the two. All this aside, your lack of professionalism is inexcusable and your tantrum responses are deplorable. You're simply a spoil little man who incorrectly assumes he is intellectually superior and gets his jollies belittling others online. I did enjoy the article, but after seeing your responses and coming to understand your superiority complex, I find I have absolutly no respect for your opinions, thoughts or work.
I absolutely agree. Blaming the computer you are working on for your lack of editing, especially when the program you use would probably find these errors with the click of a mouse, is inexcusable for a "professional" journalist. It astonishes me that you repeatedly tell respondents that they don't have to read your material…and that this may not be the place for them. Last I knew, Forbes was still a company that relies on advertising to make a profit…if you are driving away every person that disagrees with you, I would assume that would be driving away a fair market share of advertising revenue…as it seems many people find you disagreeable. Playing the part of the poor, beleaguered, unappreciated writer is a self-pitying notion that fits well with your puerile tantrums and marked egotism.
Seriously, Angel, it's called a spell-check. It's hard to take YOUR comment seriously when you choose to misspell the word YOUR.
Yeah, like any of this crap signed into law would've prevented any of the shootings in the last decade. What it does do, is it siphons money to bookworms to do research, thereby telling us how we should live. What happened to good ole shooting clubs that taught firearm responsibility?
While I partly agree, I don't believe a gun club would have solved this or any of those either. People are blaming it on "mental" thus the research.
The Government we live into only reacts to problems and doesn't prevent them… Thus lots of high profile shoots, we have more gun laws. People working their kids like adults but paying them like kids, can't hire a kid until 16 and you have to pay them min wage, and they can only work 4 hours a day (California at least). List goes on and on…
How can you prevent crime Brian? Education with gun clubs back in the 50′s and 60′s and less medicated people (being them in the mental hospitals until reagan years) and both parents home we had no violent crime like this. The government is the people therefore we are responsible for preventing it by education.
The government aren't like any of the people I know. They are elitists…They have their own rules.
@Ben Really?
Howard Unruh – 1949
Andrew Kehoe 1927(though he used bombs)
Charles Whitman- 1966
Leung Ying -1928
Before one says X didn't happen in a certain time frame because of X factors you might want to make sure its actually true. People who are out of their minds or just plain evil people with the intent of taking others out with them are nothing new. Method, location and number of dead may vary, but it is nothing new.
How many of these people used assault weapons, Kristina? The reason these shootings you listed aren't really common knowledge, is because people have percieved these acts of violence to be the fault of the people that committed the acts, not the weapons used. Also, I think there is an agenda by the media to cover such acts for it's their job, and because they are probably politically inclined to do so.
Most likely the last time you've ever read a book was when it came with a box of crayons. However, no one dare accuse you of ever being a bookworm; a worm yes, a bookworm, never in a million years.
That's a pretty neat slam. Too bad you didn't come up with it on your own. In fact, you probably haven't had an original idea since you came up with that stupid sign-in name.
I would like to know what the Executive Order #s are… I want to be able to read the full text of the EOs but I can't find any site that gives the #s of the EOs that President Obama signed. Do you know them Rick?
They should be here in a few days or weeks…
This might help:
President Obama Has Issued Fewer Executive Orders Than Any President in Over 100 Years
sarah google executive order numbers i got them =)
The issue here is that executive orders are used to pass domestic laws, when they should be used to determine policies that are outside of the role and scope of congress.
That they are backed with the full force of law however should not deter a citizen from exercising nullification rights – supreme court, state nullification, any future jury nullification, etc should be liberally exercised by citizens who disagree with these rulings, however 'benign' they may appear.
I avoid politics and such as much as I can, but the 23 executive orders?
"It does not appear that any of the executive orders would have any impact on the guns people currently own-or would like to purchase- and that all proposals regarding limiting the availability of assault weapons or large ammunition clips will be proposed for Congressional action."
Exactly. None of those executive orders do anything different than we already do, or were supposed to be doing, with the exception of people hiding behind HIPPA. It will increase – not decrease- gun trafficking. It will not keep 'crazies' from stealing a gun to commit a crime. It will not keep criminals from buying guns. It will not save a life anytime soon, and probably will make things worse in the near future. What is did do is create an atmosphere to sell several million more guns to hundreds of thousands of people that have no business owing them. For fun, for profit, for resale, to hoard, to sell to criminals, to be cool, to avoid future background checks. Millions and millions of unregistered guns now being stashed in cars, trucks, toolboxes, vents, under beds, under pillows, in dressers. Millions of guns being bought by people that would have never owned a gun, have no clue how to safely use or store one, but will purchase several because they think they were told they can't.
I may be right, or I may wrong, so I guess I'm buying guns instead of gold…..
The only difference i see in a few of those is it helps a few more red flags pop up. This would also start to show a trend, other than "O we believe there was some mental problems" that we keep seeing in all these cases. I mean if Target's algorithm can tell that your pregent and almost pin point the due date… I hope that this research will bring forth some new lights.
Many will say well "o well they will get it off the streets"… Sorry, the last few ones that we've seen are people that woudln't be caught on "The streets" or know how to find a person for such a transaction. Yes there are those who would find a way, but I'm willing to bet this would be cut in half.
That's what I have been wondering too. I mean don't these people realize that they may be scaring people into buying more guns now, specifically assault rifles. Assuming congress goes through with banning assault rifles then we may just be encouraging the drug lords in Mexico to start smuggling guns into our country. They don't even have to be whole guns, just parts of them to be assembled here in America and then distributed to gangs and other interested parties. People will pay big for them too, since they won't be registered with the government and they won't have to do some sort of psyche analysis/background check. Imagine a meth addict being able to buy not just his drugs, but also an assault rifle from his drug dealer.
What we need to realize is that the problem is not guns. The problem is the fact that we are human and are as unpredictable as it comes. Sure, maybe, if you are lucky, banning ownership of guns will end deaths caused by gun violence. People will still find ways to kill each other, look at the Oklahoma City bombing for instance, that guy proves you just need a lot of fertilizer to do a crap ton of damage. Anyway people will still die and be killed by one another regardless of our feeble attempts. If you want to see a society free of the human variable, watch Equilibrium and decide if that is how you want society to be.
Zionist Gun Control Legislation In The United States 1968 – Present
Unless I'm reading these EO's incorrectly, it appears to me that our rights as far as medical confidentiality has just been nullified. Between these and Obamacare the government is requiring the Doctors to become their gun spies and report if people even have guns. "Now, the CDC is going to attack gun ownership as if it were a disease. Anyone who expresses a desire to own a gun will be described as "mentally imbalanced" and possibly suffering from a mental disease. After all, the argument goes, what sane person would ever want to own a gun in the first place? That's the kind of irrational, emotional and manipulative argument we're going to hear in the years ahead. You can also expect all private gun owners to be painted as complete nut jobs and whackos". http://www.naturalnews.com/038707_executive_orders_doctors_health_care_spies.html#ixzz2IAgDkzJf
since the government will be in charge they will have access to all information they had not before unless it was court ordered
your wrong Rick
or your obfuscating
the fact that you would give that info" that you are writing with a left bias ( no matter if that could be easily ascertained by the thoughts) is a high respectful act
unless Forbes demanded it
respect given!!
I write from the seeker of truth pov
cant stand religion or dogma other than the dogma of truth seeking
well, if the government can oversee our truck drivers on mental disorders, why not potential gun owners?
§ 391.41Physical qualifications for drivers.
…(9) Has no mental, nervous, organic, or functional disease or psychiatric disorder likely to interfere with his/her ability to drive a commercial motor vehicle safely;
§ 391.43Medical examination; certificate of physical examination.
… The purpose of this history and physical examination is to detect the presence of physical, mental, or organic conditions of such a character and extent as to affect the driver's ability to operate a commercial motor vehicle safely. …
i would like to read the provision and a doctors orders if such a thing is going to happen =)
truck driving drive all there is millions of people they can potentially kill LOL there is no comparison and should not be compared to truck drivers.
Connie, You are so right. The bottom line is to chip away at our Constitutional Rights and limit Congress. The EO says that the Dr. now has the freedom to ask his patients if they have guns. Then you can count on Obama signing another EO somewhere down the line that says the Government will be able to ask said Dr. which ones of his patients do indeed have weapons. And then, comes the comfiscation just like the Nazi's in Germany did. This president has no regard for the rights of United States citizens and our Constitutional Rights. He frightens me.
So "Clarify that the Affordable Care Act does not prohibit doctors asking their patients about guns in their homes" nullifies patient doctor confidentiality? I am afraid you are reading into this far more than it states. Please remember that patient doctor confidentiality does not apply if the doctor feels the individual represent a danger to himself or others. Nothing new here. As for the rest of your post, little more than conspiracy theory.
it looks as though they are all reinforcing doctor patient confidentiality and adding some good regulations until number 17, that one looks as though you keep that confidentiality unless your threatening a "law enforcement authorities" whoever that entails we don't know but why is there a select number of people who are more important then that law of confidentiality?
Obama is a tyrant who should be tried for treason….and if found guilty hung.
Actually, YOU are wrong after all, because I recently went to the doctor and was a new client, and one of the questions was "do you or any family member have a gun in the home?" and then, "do you suffer from any anxiety or depression?" Then at the bottom of the page and in their privacy policy it says "these questions are in accordance with the terms of the ACA and it's objectives to serve every community" (paraphrased)..
Do you now get that your "shilling" for Obama and his loyal mobile septic tanks has been completely exposed? I'll bet you will just straw man attack everyone here even more than you do now…
Who is cheering this:
Criminals who want more laws THAT THEY WONT FOLLOW
some) people who have been the victims of gun violence who have everyright to cheer BECAUSE THEIR EMOTIONS ARE RAW ON THIS
thats why laws are suppose to be made by LOGICAL MEN AND WOMEN, NOT EMOTIONAL people
who else cheers restrictions :
angry self hating people who think they have been cheated or whose parents have cheated them and now want others, IN FACE DEMAND OTHERS live in the misery that is their existence
naive gun owners who are …naive
people who dont own guns but will call on those who do own guns to help them when /if that time comes
well , ya know the saying on that one
dont worry the police are on minuets away
The Naive one is you, as your more then likely not a gun owner. As for fellow gun owners that take our second amendment seriously we are very logical men and women with emotions that don't take lightly to governmental infringement in our private lives. Rather we have guns in our homes or not that is nobody's business but our own. And if I personally ever had a doctor question me about guns in my home I would politely tell him to Kiss My Ass!!! Gun's don't kill people, People kill People. Does a a spoon or a fork Make people Fat? No there decision to over eat does. Bad decisions are responsible for loss of life, Not the guns nor there owners…
United States Government Accountability Office Report
Criminal Alien Statistics
Information on Incarcerations, Arrests, and Costs
GAO-11-187, Mar 24, 2011
Obama pushes for gun laws while he loosens the laws on Illegals and offers Amnesty to hundreds of thousands of illegals we know nothing about. Thatta boy Barry!!!
President Obama offers Amnesty to Illegals whom we know nothing about. There is an epidemic of violent criminals coming across the US/Mexico boarder and a recent GAO report confirms the effect Illegals have on our crime rates. Obama is a coward and does not want anyone to read this report.
Link: http://www.gao.gov/products/GA…
please dont forget his for life secret service coverage THAT HE JUST SIGNED INTO LAW
OMG… You have got to be kidding me… How would of this prevented any attacks.. All the president did was used a bad situation to pass more control. Just like the BS he did to get people to vote for him. Sorry im not one of them dumb asses.
The reality is that since everyone but the perp is unarmed, the perp can post very high body counts. If these lone perp incidents were happening in a society in which all law abiding citizens without a criminal record could be licensed to carry concealed after completing the prerequisite safety and training, you would see the number of victims drop dramatically.
And, make no mistake, there will always be a perp. They can make fully automatic firearms from hardware store items. A shotgun can be made with a construction stapler and pipe. Kids can make zip guns from old door knobs. And even though it's impossible to stop all lone perps from making or obtaining a firearm (even in countries that ban them), they can make bombs instead.
Prohibition simply doesn't work on a non-island large land mass with a population the size of the USA. This new war on guns is just going to put a lot of otherwise good taxpaying law abiding citizens in prison with the remainder being handed the bill for their needless incarceration in the form of higher taxes.
Criminals don't abide by gun control laws. The only people our society is taking guns away from, restricting, and penalizing anymore are law abiding citizens.
I went to gun shows for years… thousands of people walking around with semi-automatic firearms and ammo. They even sold big 32 ounce cups of cold beer at these events. They never had a single problem in the decades they held them. You know why? A gun show is the LAST place a perp wants to start trouble… even a deranged one.
Over 110 million Americans passed through the Boy Scouts of America which offered gun safety and training classes using live ammunition. Millions of young people were mentored and trained in the proper use of firearms from the 1950′s forward with their first firearm often coming from the government M1 semi-automatic carbine program. No problems resulted and we were all safer for it.
Umm that was yesterday… where there was reasonable talk, reasonable gun ownership, the NRA was even reasonable and felt it wise to make sure they looked reasonable and helped make gun legislation. let's talk about today. None of the above exists.
I am from Canada. We have a ton of guns here. But we are not allowed to carry and we are not allowed to own assault rifles. Assault rifles are banned because their sole purpose is to kill a lot of humans at one time. Now that is freedom. You Americans live in fear of one another.
Almost all of these things should have been done a long time ago if the Obama administration was really concerned with gun violence. None would make an impact on recent incidents, but might do something positive.
I believe that Obama is up to no good and is deliberately trying to destroy America and take away our 2nd amendment rights. He wants a socialist America. I cant think of any former president that had to deal with so many shootings taking place in their term/s and yet there are numerous shootings taking place under his watch. Why? Well I believe he and his socialist/U.N. cronies have planned these shootings in some way to create fear in americans so they will jump on board to take away our second amendment rights. In essence- Create a tragic senario, inflame americans emotions and put fear in american people, quickly come up with a rediculous sulution to deal with a made up problem. George Washington said "When any nation mistrusts it's citizens with guns, it is sending a clear message. It no longer trusts it's citizens because such a government has evil plans." Today it is our gun rights in question we must defend, what will it be tomorrow. Americans should really read up on Hitler's anti gun agenda and they will realize america is in peril by those that want to see america fall. Take a look at Russia before and as communism took hold as well as china, great britain, canada, and last but no less important the Roman Republic/Roman Empire. It started out a very good system but was corrupted by people in power that were hungry for power, money, wealth, property and control of their citizen's because they did not trust their citizens any longer because they(roman officials) too had evil plans. Wake up America and stand by your and your fellow countryman's rights. Our constitution!
Sorry Reese but were you raised by wolves? You must have been getting high during history & spelling class. Put down the crack pipe, get some fresh air & stop being a cellar-dwelling, paranoid conspiracy freak.
Dear God! You live in absolute fear and call it freedom… and wail about unlimited rights to guns and the constitution as interpreted by Joe Shmoe who never read beyond the partial clause on the NRA website (peppered amongst the conspiracy theories)
I am beginning to see why so many fear background checks of their mental state.
The squealing of a segment of gun owners about their guns has exceeded good sense. I'll put it this way, if you are using hyperbole, you're full of crap, if you really love your guns then I'd question your mental fitness to own one. I've heard all the crap about self-defense and public defense and crap is what it is
The NRA and raving gunowners act like we would have to give up life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness before we give up guns. The only thing asked for are control of transactions. It doesn't keep you from keeping your guns at home. The lies these people put own are wrong and stupid. I'd say no matter what you say, if you love your guns that much, you've chosen guns over your wife and kids
A gun is a tool just like others and I can't fined any reason to treat 'em like a member of the family. There's a reason they moved to take guns off the street in the old west towns. Do you folks really think you're that much smarter. Personally, I've found our forefathers knew what they were doing in a lot of cases.
Most of it is pointless, but lets talk about the usual unintended consequences.
There's a lot of focus on mental health with little detail of what that means in disqualification of owning a gun. First scenario, how many that own a gun will be concerned they will loose it by visiting a psychologist or counselor? May seem silly, but I'm convinced a good % would have reservations when media hypes it up. Especially those very close to their 2nd amendment rights. Thus, how many that need care will not get it, leading to a wore situation? How does this affect jobs in psychological care? Perhaps they can get a "make-work" job created by government to support the executive orders.
There needs to be mental illness restrictions, but every state already has them. And isn't criminal law of this form at the state level under supremacy clause? Or does abuse of interstate commerce clause override. Background check could be done at federal level, but restrictions and penalties are at state level. Most of these orders seem to belong at the state level.
Also, couldn't they tap into eVerify for check? Every employer already has to use that. There's also background check systems for certain government jobs or contracting. Seems like there are plenty of systems available. The orders in that area seem cosmetic.
However, none really effect the most violent gun crimes.
I just read your 14th article about state legislation, after I posted. Appears to repeat some of what I mentioned
A few thoughts: firstly, I think how safe you are outside and inside your own home trumps spelling errors- so call me crazy- but sticking to the topic seems important. More poingantly- can we consider what it takes to drive a car. To drive your car, you took lessons, to pay less insurance you can take lessons in defensive driving, if you have epilepsy, you cannot drive the car based on state regulations, etc. To own a gun- you need nothing. Anyone can have a psychotic episode and purchase a gun at the same time. So let me ask you- do you feel safe raising your children? Do you think, if you dont care about yourself- that they deserve to feel safe and deserve to peace of mind? I am getting more and more wary of the right's paranoid reactivity to what seem to me like watered down pieces of legislation. Of course, perhaps, the devil is in the details. And so I commend anyone asking what the between the lines aspects are here. Though, i think we should be doing more. If someone has an agressive mental health disorder or specific problems in a background check- you shouldnt be able to purchase AND/OR own a weapon. If you own a gun- you should be EXTREMELY well- trained on how to use it FIRST. Otherwise, you should not own one. A gun is a machine made to kill animals and people. A car is just a device for transportation that can. Let's encourage our friends and neighbors to think with their hearts and their brains and not the advertisements from the NRA.
I disagree with you on two issues. One is about background checks. I know from personal experience in the criminal justice field, that the government, both at a state and federal level is quick to call someone a felon when a crime might not have anything to do with violence or firearms. I DO NOT believe that someones right to bear arms should be taken away in all circumstances where the government calls the conviction a felony. Thus, a background picks up on a felon and they are denied. If we live in a society where we are hoping ot rehabilitate people who have made bad choices and want to turn it around, then why can some of them get these rights back? That might, however be a topic for a different discussion. Second, you don't need to be EXTREMELY well trained to own a gun. Why? Adam Lanza wasn't trained any more than the rest of us, and look what he did. So, I don't understand what training has to do with anything. Besides, Hunter's Safety Training was once held in schools and public places. Now, Liberals around where I live tell their kids how bad guns are, and they teach children to be afraid of them. Training isn't an issue, morality is.
Great points Kelley. All we hear from the right & NRA is fear & paranoia. I think we all agree guns should only be owned by responsible individuals. The NRA could help the situation (& the economy) by advocating for laws limiting gun ownership to those who can pass an NRA certified gun safety course. The course could be simply teaching how to safely secure the weapon, etc. Another good idea would be to require liability insurance for each weapon sold.
Well intentioned plans which will accomplish absolutely nothing.
On another note if doctors are authorized to ask questions that may later implicate someone in a crime , will they also be required to read you your Miranda rights?
Billhusseinostalin: (you do indeed remind me of someone i know with that name…) could you explain why well intentioned plans accomplish nothing? i will surely find the answer interesting and amusing.
Seems to me most of these 23 orders take just a little bit more of our privacy away, the enhanced background checks for perhaps individuals that are mentally challenged (cause one of these orders makes it now legal for your doctors, including your pyschiatrist, therapist, etc. to notify authorities) I am sure can be easy misconstrued by authorities (didn't the Bush admin run a foul with their wire tapping under the auspices of the Patriot Act??) and include your average Joe – you and I – The fine print, or procedure, that is to be used to determine such people/cases would be a scary read. I feel this is just an enhancement on the Patriot Act which started the chipping away at our privacy and rights…little by little.
Elaine it is already legal for health care providers to report people who may be a threat to themselves or others to law enforcement. All the above does is REMIND health care professionals that they cannot be punished for erring on the side of caution and reporting the whack job that has made a threat.
Just wow! From where on earth did you get this crop of readers?
While Executive Orders have the full force of law, they are made in pursuit of certain Acts of Congress and to manage the operations within the federal government. An EO can expand on or clarify an existing law, but it cannot independently create one. That is the authority of Congress!!!!
The limbaugh locusts and the NRA rednecks have been send to be minions for their leaders… to search for anything that is mildly negative towards the gun issue. They are willing to become first time readers and make one time accounts in their valiant effort to save mankind, else how might they live if not with a loaded gun under their pillow to keep them safe?
(and surely if we come for their assault rifles are not all other fire arms right behind?)
After all, the very freedom of all mankind and the liberty of Americans is at stake. Facts and reality be damned! Off with our heads!
(You think this is bad… visit CNN if you dare…)
How can you say that about millions of people you have never met? You literally have no way of substantiating this sweeping generalization. Your making fun of people and calling them names is disgusting. And don't reply back and say, "I'll tell you what's disgusting…" and continue to engage in the discussion this way. I am a highly educated individual whose passion is political philosophy and you are suggesting that people on my side are first time readers? You are dead wrong. You are questioning the character of millions whom you have never met and never will? Do you know how your post makes you sound? It makes you sound precisely like the type of person you are describing me to be.
Your assault on people's minds and the caliber of their character smacks of arrogance and pride. You have no experience living the lives of these people and totally lack an understanding of their belief systems or values. People who believe differently than you, see the world differently than you, view their purpose and role as a human being differently than you, and view individuality and government differently than you are not "first time readers" who never contribute anything until they are spooked about losing their guns.
Your comment contributes nothing to the discussion and you pose no argument. You basically say, "The other side is stupid."
If you just stopped with the first 3 orders, you have enough ambiguity in the langauge to allow for massive corruption by the government….but I'm sure that would NEVER happen in the Obama administration.
They're not Executive Orders, they are Executive Actions. I quit reading as soon as you got that wrong.
What part of "the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall NOT be INFRINGED." Does the President not understand?
Not; From Middle English not, nat, variant of noght, naht ("not, nothing"), from Old English *nōht, nāht ("nought, nothing"), short for nōwiht, nāwiht ("nothing", literally "no thing, no creature"), corresponding to nā ("no") + wiht ("thing, creature"). Cognate with Scots nat, naucht ("not"), West Frisian net ("not"), Dutch niet ("not"), German nicht ("not"). Compare nought and aught. More at no, wight.
1. Infringed; Actively break the terms of (a law, agreement, etc.): "infringe a copyright".
2. Act so as to limit or undermine (something); encroach on: "infringe on his privacy".
Firearms are second to the constitution in importance;
they are the people's libertie's teeth. George Washington.
You don't have the right to be better armed than the army …
To the contrary the 2nd Amendment also is there to protect us from the Tyranny of government. So we do have the right to be as well armed as a military that could threaten to take over.
Nice interpretation of the 2nd Amendment. That sounds like anarchy, which is not what the amendment was trying to encourage. If anarchy and treason are okay, by you, then you have no idea what is actually in your constitution.
How in the Sam Hill can a citizen be better armed than the military…..LEGALLY??? Have NO idea?? Clue one, citizens allowed only semi-automatic weapons and military automatic. Clue two, citizens NOT allowed cannons/anti-tank/granades, etc, and the military is and has them. This list can go on and on, but with ANY reasonable intellect, I hope you get the drift. What's good for the goose (Canada) is NOT always good for the gander(US).
Under no circumstance should a background check involve mental health records. If they think there are issues with mental health now, just wait until those records are no longer private. Who would risk seeking help from mental health professionals if that information would be released for just about anyone to see.
Not to mention there is absolutely no standard to determining what mental health issues should keep someone from owning a firearm. Should PTSD prevent someone from owning a firearm? Should bipolar disorder or schizophrenia? What about standard depression?
These are all questions that do not have a one size fits all answer. I have PTSD in the form of anxiety and hypervigilance. Should I not be able to own guns?
Most schizophrenics are not violent nor have any violent delusions. Should they automatically be barred from owning a gun?
I cannot ever support any type of legislation that would involve violating the privacy of our citizens in such a manner.
But if somebody does have a mental disorder that clearly exhibits as violent and/or has a history of violence, that should absolutely have a bearing on whether or not they should be able to buy firearms.
In fact, I believe the whole household should be "background checked" when buying firearms since several incidents, such as Sandy Hook, show that the purchaser isn't the only one with easy, reasonable, and even legal access to the weapon. I do mean "reasonable access" not snatching one during a break-in. After all, Adam Lanza didn't break any laws by using his mother's weapons… he broke the law when he killed people with a weapon owned/purchased by his mother who DID pass a background check. Would Adam L. have passed a background check?
And if you don't want background checks on your housemates –perhaps because of their mental health or violent history issues– you should probably be rethinking if you are buying to protect yourself from your live-in mates and even why you continue to live with this person.
As for potential laws regarding extended clips and even larger caliber assault-style weapons for target practice or recreational uses, I have no problem -IF- they are restricted to use within the confines of a target-shooting facility where they can be rented or "checked out" for use on the facility's grounds.
The Supreme Court agrees that we can own guns but it also explicitly allowed for the reasonable regulation of such weapons and who owns them.
Here's the deal, kicker too… simply make it a FELONY…. to own and possess an Assault Firearm Weapon for Anyone, including Police… Only Military should have them.
By Making it a Felony, we do what the GOP did with the Migrants to be here by making it a Felony.
That way with the same regard, they can no longer purchase and own a Firearm.
Criminalize them….
USE GOP BIG GOVT NAZI tactics and Strategies . Neo Con Corporatist Bootlickers love being diehards for their blowhards.
Here's the deal, kicker too… simply make it a FELONY…. to own and possess an Assault Firearm Weapon for Anyone, including Police… Only Military should have them.
By Making it a Felony, we do what the GOP did with the Migrants to be here by making it a Felony.
That way with the same regard, they can no longer purchase and own a Firearm.
Criminalize them….
USE GOP BIG GOVT NAZI tactics and Strategies . Neo Conservative Corporatist Bootlickers love being diehards for their blowhards.
First of all…these are just SUMMARIES of the executive orders…not the orders themselves. Yet even here the language used is very broad and can be manipulated to start actions that continue to nibble away at the constitution until it has been destroyed. I can only see like 3 of these orders that are necessary….the rest are just fluff used to hide the real intent. Unfortunately this will work for the majority of the public. I can only hope that we the people continue to arm ourselves with knowledge in order to combat this farce.
Sure, improve controls on assault rifles, and have tighter regulation on hand guns, but with 300 + million guns already in circulation, do we really think it will have a significant impact? Of course any impact would be better than none, but tinkering around the edge of real issues is what people accept, if not actually like, for fiscal policy, the environment, national security, health care and so on. We have a culture and society now that for many reasons is at war with itself. Ideology vs ideology. Trench warfare. We blame our politicians, hate business as usual, yet continue to elect and re-elect them to do just that. People want lower taxes but want to keep the services. Not too many lobbyists in Washington fighting for a reduction in government services is there, compared to those wanting more tax exemptions or a bigger piece of the spending? Republicans want to lower taxes and entitlement spending but not Pentagon spending (of course) and as history has shown, not deficits. Democrats want it all, and the citizens just want to blame somebody, anybody, but national pride and ideological myths prevent a long look in the mirror. With Republicans there are two certainties…war, and debt. With Democrats, just one…taxes. Some choice. The system is broken and needs to be reformed in almost every conceivable area. Both parties are to blame. The voters are to blame. Bad policy is to blame. Ironically, and sadly, candidates don't campaign and win (or keep their job) by fighting for the radical reform that is needed. Americans of course have come to like wars on things….drugs, terrorism, countries that fall out of favour etc., so is it any surprise the gun culture is what it is? It seems that if you call it a war, we delude ourselves into believing it must be something we can win with warfare. The war on drugs hasn't be won (even though the budgets have skyrocketed) but now it is the government agencies, and systems that are addicted….. to the funding, and likewise for most other black holes of spending. America could reduce the cost of their healthcare "system" dramatically by actually getting one, but that's not going to happen. Americans cling to their guns like Canadians cling to their Health Care system, but nobody asks why that is. Entrenched positions based on flawed ideology and greed, enabled by a broken democracy, bought and paid for by special interest groups. It should never be about big or small government, but about the best government, good government, the right government…to meet the needs and the pocketbook of the people today and tomorrow, fairly and honestly.
Funny, I don't see any executive orders here. They're also not posted on the Federal Register website at the time of this posting. I don't like being pimped by false headlines.
Tell us Rick, do you have an evil twin by the name of Felix? Are you really here just trolling for an Oscar?
I know this is an old discussion but this has been informative (I'm late to the table)… can you explain how these are enforceable as actions or orders or whatever? At what point are they binding or non-binding and what distinguishes them from being legislation?
You mean to tell me that you do not think EO #2 does not infringe on our current rights of privacy? HIPA has now been made ineffectual for ensuring that the Government cannot see your private records!!! Additionally, the foundation is now being set for our doctors to be spies and/or Gestapo-like puppets for the Government as Thought Police. How can we trust our doctors now? Further, people who are mentally and emotionally bent to violence probably do not have a regular checkup and speak openly with their medical professional. More rights are being removed from Americans as a result of a knee jerk action from a man who would have the Government be our god.
Mental health records, pre- and post-HIPPA and ACA were and are available to the government any time you believed to be an endangerment to yourself or others. Some of these EOs are reminders and clarifications to medical providers that this protection is not and never was "absolute." ACA, ObamaCare, specifically prevents doctors from transmitting info between each other regarding whether or not there are firearms in the household. EO#16 is intended to clarify that a doctor can still ask you if have them… he/she just can't make that a part of your file that is transmitted to other doctors and insurances. But if your Dr. believes you are unstable and might actually be considering/planning a shooting, they can tell every law enforcement agency they can contact. It's a clarification so that Doc's don't sudden feel like they can't ask anymore. That's all.
Rick, It would be helpful if you would publish an essay here about how the Affordable Care Act addresses the problem of mental health. The NRA leadership has suggested that the mental health problem needs to be looked into.
I find it strange that the very same people who want to increase mental health availability, want to get rid of ObamaCare. But doesn't ObamaCare address mental health issues? If so, what are they specifically?
they also are not "orders" they are "actions". So if anything this is "under-stepping" not over stepping the constitution or anything else. Of course the NRA and libertarian wind bag Rand Paul are telling their constituency that Obama just made these the law of the land
Don't know what all the fuss is about now that I've actually read the executive orders. It would seem that all they do is reinforce the laws that are already on the table, plug up the bogus loopholes in those laws, and make sure research is being done so that we actually know more about the issue. Who could argue with that?
President Obama did not sign "executive orders". He signed "presidential memoranda". They each have their own sections on the White House.gov website.
I'm a bit confused as to why there are those who are calling them "Executive Orders" and others who are referring to them as "Executive Actions". It's really confusing. Which is it?
Obama signed ZERO "executive orders" on the day of that speech.. why did you lie about this? didn't do your homework?
he signed 3 pres mandates, 20 directives
Sarcastic confession is good for the soul of the infallible.
There are two ways you can look at all of these executive actions. There is the manner in which you view these actions as innocuous, then there are others who view them as steps toward continuing the infringement upon the 2nd Amendment.
I can castigate the president on the assumed cost of the studies to be conducted about gun violence, which doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure out. Others can point to existing studies or bullet wounds they may have received which shows that gunshot wounds do hurt. I can guess millions more of my confiscated money will be used to award Obamnunist feds to study the issue and justify their existence with tons of reports.
And, you can assume the mental health laws already in place are not adequate and believe more bureaucracy in that area will save lives. I have to look at the history of the Great Manipulator and assume theses actions, as based upon his anti-gun history in the Illinois Senate, are steps toward confiscation by creating a web of paperwork, re-categorization of citizens, additional health reg's, and eventual fines and fees, making gun ownership so onerous and costly as to not be feasible for the average American.
Also, Eric Holder has never disavowed his public statement to "brain wash" Americans into a different belief about guns. Therefore, it is only reasonable to assume these "executive actions" or political elitist "dictates" will further lead us down a road of Constitutional crisis.
I hate having to do it, but I have to take the negative view on these current and somewhat vague, for now, presidential moves to supposedly make America safer at the risk of again ripping on the U.S. Constitution.
Thank you for your honest stand.
WC Liles, Publish, MoBleeps Mobile News Network
It only applies to members of that society, and yet I count 8 different crimes against me, committed by his act of signing. (…Shall not be infringed.)
Oh, for the love of God and all that is holy and precious to you, Lothar. Please re-read your post. If, after doing so, you do not see what I and others see, then I sincerely hope that your views/opinions are those in the minority. If they are not, then I despair. I really do.
nobama, a kenyan by birth & a muslum by choice, commits high treason by eroding our abilities to keep & possess arms. he should concern him-self more with doing the duty of the executive branch by protecting our borders and building a double fence around our southern border with mexico & place junk yard dogs that are mean & hungry between them so they can patrol & take care of anymore illegals climbing over the outer fence. he should also expel all the illegals aliens from us soil and give no amnesty to these border hoppers.
Wow Jane! Although I rather doubt you travel much… your type is why I think we might need a double wall on our Canadian border. The KKK is still alive and well and recruiting the nastiest in society I see.
Your ability to keep arms is not being eroded by these orders. Oh wait… being your mental stability is in question, given your post, perhaps they are.
well thease laws & regulation already on books , like obama's 57 orginal states!
As I live on 524 acres in the middle of nowhere, my concerns are going to be: (1) Will I be able to hand one of my guns to my visiting son to have him go out and shoot the varmints that attack our chickens/livestock? (2) Will my son be able to inherit my guns easily? (3) When friends come, we have had fun target shooting out in my fields; am I going to have to curtail that? (4) If one gets treated by a psychiatrist for depression ( not the case with me!) will that go on your record and be a disqualifying factor for gun ownership.
I don't think I'm affected with these Obama orders but those are the things that are pressing on my mind.
I have also lived long enough to know that legislative action usually begins with an easy step or two forward. Once denizens are comfortable with those steps, a few more steps are taken. This process continues, ultimately reaching the end goal at some point. A good recent example is homosexual marriages. Initially, the talking points here noted that legal rights were sought in the merger of masculine with masculine and feminine with feminine. There was a great deal of chatter on how "if we get those rights in the form of civil rights, all will be well." Well, the rights were given. Promises were made that this wasn't marriage and wouldn't be marriage. I sat back and waited and sure enough, the anticipated next step came… the cleaving of feminine with feminine (or masculine) to allegedly create one, in the form of so-called marriages. (I cannot call them marriages, sorry!)
We anticipate future behaviors of folks based on how they have behaved in the past. As past behavior politically is to take baby steps forward, I get how people anticipate that we are headed toward removal of gun rights.
I could live without my guns in a city filled with people who choose to live squished together, competing for money and other "resources." But out here, there's no way you are going to take my tools away. My ancestors settled this land… and we have our ways…. ways far different from you city people.
NAZI dictatorship. Same thing what Hitler done before He started killing or depopulating Germany Citizens. Taking peoples guns inslaving them and strip them of their guns to defend themselves from the oppression of their own Gov't that turn on them and strip them of their rights.
Only a fool thinks there is such a thing as "Gun Violence." There is Gang Violence, and Domestic Violence, and Armed Robbery, and Serial and Mass killings – but guns are just one of the tools they use – not the root cause. Only Liberals would be stupid enough to turn their backs on the social issues they supposedly champion in order to argue for something both ineffective and doomed to fail.
Those were not Executive Orders, they were Executive Actions. http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2013/01/obama-23-executive-orders-actions-gun-control.html
Thanks for this post. I think some of this could be solved with this year's fall arrest training, much like the one Calgary.
How does any of this do anything to curb gun violence in this country ? Noe of these people committing these crimes are buying guns at the gun store, they buy them off the street or steal them, no background check there. No one is going to trust their doctors at all now, I know I won't . Nor will they get the medications they need in fear of being labeled as mentally unstable. I don't see anything that is going to help here at all, just make it harder for good honest Americans to get the arms they have the right to have. This is like a dictator imposing his will on the people.
These Presidential dictates are interesting in an evil sense: they collectively seek to further clarify who is allowed to exercise a constitutionally guaranteed right by linking disparate databases to 'assure' an affirmative rejection… to purchase, possess or transfer said firearms.
I say evil because these policies (and others like them) are indeed evil.
Consider the following 'news' story:
Headline: 'The President Today Signed 23 Executive Orders to Improve Voting Safety Through Tracking Inappropriate Voters.'
Article: Databases from Google, Facebook, Twitter, (This Website), Bank of America, Visa, Mastercard, DMV and DHS are combined through these orders to track unsocial voting agitators (ie. terrorists).
Next month, Federal Authorities will begin the process of rendition whereby these illegal and anti-social agitators shall be rounded up for social re-education. Education resistant terrorists will be liquidated under previous NDAA provisions.
If the 2nd Amendment is 'too permissive' … so are the other Amendments.
and then there are mass stabbings with box cutters and bombs with ball bearings.
be thankfull your your not in NY.
be thankfull your not in NY
Will these new laws apply to the illegal guns that Obama let "slip through the cracks" during The Fast and the Furious? Will Obama be held accountable to the citizens for all of the guns he is purchasing with DHS?
What part of "SHALL NOT BE INFRINGED" are the liberals just too damn stupid to understand?
The government is preparing for a Second American Revolution? Are you?
I have always thought of Forbes as a legitimate source for correct information. This one article is so fraught with grammatical errors that my belief is now jeopardized. If you can't get simple English correct as a paid professional organization, how can we trust you to get the facts straight? Executive actions are merely a 'to do' list…nothing more. This is the process that he intends to follow to get his hands on your guns. It's not a good thing, but quit sensationalizing the rhetoric and creating unreal drama.
Admitting that this is the first column that I have read by liberal Rick Ungar, It was refreshing to see that the information containing the 23 executive orders was without liberal bias or comment, except for the one paragraph at the end. Don't you love it when news is reported and then the commentator reveals that he or she thinks us too stupid to understand what we just read so we are forced to suffer through paragraph after paragraph of opinion "clarifying" the facts?
Mr. Ungar's response to the comments at the end of the article are quite a different story. His references to "conservative troll brigades", "libertarian wind bag Rand Paul", "Apparently, you didn't get the conservative memo on this…", "one would think you have better ways of expressing your irrational anger", and "Didn't they teach you in hater school…" reveals a condescending attitude possibly triggered in some people by a severe inferiority complex. Truly professional writers learn, with experience, to grow a thick skin because criticism, earned or unearned, is part of the profession. Personal attacks are a tool of those who lack a substantial argument. The commenter, Common Man's criticism was valid.


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San Diego Hospice, the largest non-profit hospice in California and one of the largest in the nation, now seeking bankruptcy protection, may soon be combined with Scripps Health.
The four-hospital Scripps system on Wednesday sought bankruptcy court approval to rescue the organization. The hospice has been wrestling with a federal decision that it enrolled patients who weren't appropriately documented with terminal illness.
On Wednesday, SDH announced it would close.
Scripps is looking to acquire the assets of the 24-bed hillside acute care facility, which up until last fall took care of 900 patients at a time, most of them in their homes, with some 900 employees.
"I think there's a growing understanding of hospice care for society and it makes sense for us to have it within our system," says Scripps CEO Chris Van Gorder. "It's a sad day for San Diego Hospice, but I had doctors all over me suggesting that we step in and help. They just didn't know until today that we were doing just that."
Depending on the bankruptcy court's decision, he adds, "we will hire employees, many from San Diego Hospice, if they're interested in working with us, and I think many will be. And we will ramp up as patients sign up with us, and transition them over into our hospice."
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The Sierra Club and Chippewa County resident Larry Klein said the federal government did an inadequate job of analyzing the environmental impacts and investigating alternatives. But Marquette federal Judge R. Allan Edgar said the risk to local health was adequately considered.
The judge said Tuesday that mitigation projects would make up for any impact on wetlands. He also said that state and federal officials found no endangered species near the location.
Frontier Renewable Resources will break down wood into sugars that ferment and become ethanol. The plant would use about 560,000 tons of pulpwood a year from public and private lands. The U.S. Energy Department is providing $100 million.
Boys find mastodon bone in backyard
SHELBY TOWNSHIP — A researcher has confirmed that two 11-year-old boys found a mastodon bone over the summer while exploring a southeast Michigan yard.
Eric Stamatin of Macomb County's Shelby Township and his cousin Andrew Gainariu of Troy found the bone near a stream while exploring Eric's backyard, The Detroit News reported. Eric said it looked like a rock, but a hole made them think it was a bone.
A researcher at Cranbrook Institute of Science in Bloomfield Hills confirmed it was an axis bone from an extinct American mastodon, a relative of the elephant. Paleontologist John Zawiskie said the fossil is likely between 13,000 and 14,000 years old.


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Michael S. Reck, 38, 10 Wulff St., Cary, has been charged with two counts of predatory criminal sexual assault (a Class X felony), seven counts criminal sexual assault (Class 1 felony), and two counts aggravated criminal sexual abuse (Class 2 felony), according to a Cary Police Department press release.
On Jan. 6, police were notified of alleged incidents between Reck and the five victims, and immediately began an investigation. Police established the victims are both males and females, and all are related to or acquaintances of Reck's.
Reck is accused of committing numerous sexual acts with the victims over a six month period at his Cary home on Wulff Street, according to police.
Reck remains in custody at the McHenry County Correctional Facility on a $580,000 bond, police said.
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NORMAN — Otto Hansmeyer, 100, passed away Wednesday, Oct. 31, 2012 in Norman. He was born July 21, 1912 in Norman to August and Minnie (Frevert) Hansmeyer.
Otto was an insurance agent for Oklahoma Farmers Union retiring in 1992. He also was in the farming and ranching industry. He enjoyed working, reading the newspaper and socializing with his family and friends. His greatest enjoyment in life was spending time with his grandchildren and great grandchildren. He will be missed by all that knew and loved him.
Otto is survived by his son, Harold Hansmeyer and wife Diana; two daughters, Marilyn Sendelbach and husband Raymond and Kathryn Brown all of Norman; five grandchildren, Kimberly Baxter and husband Dustin Nunn of Norman, Clifton Brown and wife Bethany of Norman, Sandra Lundmark and husband Brian of Norman, Stanley Sendelbach and wife Misty of Noble and Daniel Brown of Oklahoma City; and seven great grandchildren, Phillip Baxter of Oklahoma City, John Baxter of Norman, Emma Baxter of Norman, Tanner Sendelbach of Noble, Tori Sendelbach of Noble, Toni Sendelbach of Noble and Sara Lundmark of Moore. He is preceded in death by his parents; his wife, Ellanora Hansmeyer; his daughter, Esther Hansmeyer; four brothers and six sisters. Donations may be made to Trinity Lutheran Church, 603 Classen Blvd., Norman, OK 73071.
Visitation will be held 1 to 8 p.m., Sunday, Nov. 4, 2012 and 9 a.m. to 8 p.m., Monday, Nov. 5, 2012 with the family greeting friends from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. at Havenbrook Funeral Home. Funeral services will be at 10 a.m., Tuesday, Nov. 6, 2012 at Trinity Lutheran Church with interment following in I.O.O.F. Cemetery of Norman.
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Johnstown Symphony Orchestra has announced its 85th concert season for 2013-2014, "Great Music for a Great City."
The symphony will mark the 125th anniversary of the city of Johnstown with a yearlong celebration highlighting how much it has become an integral part of the city.
"It is with great anticipation that I look forward to the next season of Johnstown Symphony Orchestra," said Maestro Istvan Jaray, music director. "It contains the diversity, thrill and appeal of new works that will satisfy any audience. There will be some new pieces and some very pleasant familiar family works. Each concert will be a touching and memorable show that will tap into the human emotion of our community."
All concerts will be held at 7:30 p.m. Saturdays at Pasquerilla Performing Arts Center on the campus of Pitt-Johnstown in Richland Township, except for the Halloween Spooktacular Concert, which will be held at 2:30 p.m. Oct. 26 at Richland High School auditorium.
Concerts for the "Great Music for a Great City" season will include:
Oct. 19: "A Heroic Opening."
Oct. 26: "Halloween Spooktacular."
Nov. 16: "A Night with Amadeus."
Dec. 14: "Joyful Holiday Celebration."
March 8: "Behind the Mask."
April 5: "Our Young Talents and Shining Brass."
May 3: "Happy 125th Anniversary Johnstown."
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