Link to full text of Obama's 23 executive orders for gun violence

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The full text of Obama's proposals, including some references to his recommendations to Congress:


http://www.scribd.com/doc/120650029

 

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Some of the more interesting parts I have read:

While no law or set of laws will end gun violence, it is clear that the American people want action. If even one child’s life can be saved, then we need to act. Now is the time to do the right thing for our children, our communities, and the country we love.

REQUIRE BACKGROUND CHECKS FOR ALL GUN SALES:
The single most important thing we can do to prevent gun violence and mass shootings, like the one in Newtown, is to make sure those who would commit acts of violence cannot get access to guns.

Eliminate restrictions that force the ATF to authorize importation of dangerous weapons simply because of their age:
ATF is required to authorize the importation of certain “curio or relic” firearms, and outdated regulations include all firearms manufactured more than 50 years ago in the definition of “curio or relic.”

But today, firearms manufactured more than 50 years ago include large numbers of semiautomatic military-surplus rifles, some of which are easily convertible into machine guns or otherwise appealing for use in crime. Congress should get rid of restrictions that prevent ATF from changing this definition,enabling ATF to ensure that firearms imported as curios or relics are actually of interest as collectibles, rather than letting these rules be used as a way to acquire fully functional and powerful military weapons.

Helping schools address pervasive violence:
Twenty-two percent of 14 to 17year olds have witnessed a shooting in their lifetime.

 

[SOLGardener]

From yahoo... (in bold are my particular concerns)

Today, the President announced 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 [Human Services Secretary Kathleen] Sebelius and [Education Secretary [Arne] Duncan on mental health.

Expect to be declared mentall unfit due to your interest in semi auto rifles

 

[jsquared]

EVERYONE should read the rest of the 15-page proposal, that list is just the high points.

 

[SMLEshooter]

Helping schools address pervasive violence:
Twenty-two percent of 14 to 17year olds have witnessed a shooting in their lifetime.

Holy ***!

Seriously?? That's almost one out of every four children!

Just pure statistics would imply that just about 100% of the kids in NY, Chicago, etc.. have seen a shooting. They would had to of in order for the average to be that high..

 

[jsquared]

Holy ***!

Seriously?? That's almost one out of every four children!

Just pure statistics would imply that just about 100% of the kids in NY, Chicago, etc.. have seen a shooting. They would had to of in order for the average to be that high..

Thats what I thought too, theres no freakin way thats possible.

Take the number of shootings per year (about 60,000 total, both non-fatal and fatal, according to the CDC, including suicides) and assume it has been the same for the last fifteen years (it has actually increased, so this should be lower), we can say there have been about 900,000 shootings in that time frame total.

Compared to those 900,000 shootings, there were approximately 75 million children ages 0-17 in America in 2012. Lets say every single one of those shootings for the last fifteen years was seen by at least one of those children aged 0-17 from last year, that would still only be 1.5% of the entire schoolchildren in the US.

I call total BS on this statistic.

 

[jsquared]

I did some research and found that this stat came from a DOJ survey conducted in 2008 that polled 4,500 children or their parents, or their caregivers. The statistic in question comes from one the questions under the "Exposure to community violence" chapter, specifically "...witnessing or hearing a shooting, bombing, or riot."

This is most certainly not the same thing as directly seeing someone get shot, but apparently its close enough to make a scary statistic.

https://www.ncjrs.gov/pdffiles1/ojjdp/227744.pdf