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The 23 Executive Actions That Obama Is Taking Immediately To Reduce Gun Violence
2013-01-16
  • Issue a Presidential Memorandum to require federal agencies to make relevant data available to the federal background check system.

  • 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.

  • Improve incentives for states to share information with the background check system.

  • 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.

  • Propose rulemaking to give law enforcement the ability to run a full background check on an individual before returning a seized gun.

  • Publish a letter from ATF to federally licensed gun dealers providing guidance on how to run background checks for private sellers.

  • Launch a national safe and responsible gun ownership campaign.

  • Review safety standards for gun locks and gun safes (Consumer Product Safety Commission).

  • Issue a Presidential Memorandum to require federal law enforcement to trace guns recovered in criminal investigations.

  • Release a DOJ report analyzing information on lost and stolen guns and make it widely available to law enforcement.

  • Nominate an ATF director.

  • Provide law enforcement, first responders, and school officials with proper training for active shooter situations.

  • Maximize enforcement efforts to prevent gun violence and prosecute gun crime.

  • Issue a Presidential Memorandum directing the Centers for Disease Control to research the causes and prevention of gun violence.

  • 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.

  • Clarify that the Affordable Care Act does not prohibit doctors asking their patients about guns in their homes.

  • Release a letter to health care providers clarifying that no federal law prohibits them from reporting threats of violence to law enforcement authorities.

  • Provide incentives for schools to hire school resource officers.

  • Develop model emergency response plans for schools, houses of worship and institutions of higher education.

  • Release a letter to state health officials clarifying the scope of mental health services that Medicaid plans must cover.

  • Finalize regulations clarifying essential health benefits and parity requirements within ACA exchanges.

  • Commit to finalizing mental health parity regulations.

  • Launch a national dialogue led by Secretaries Sebelius and Duncan on mental health.
  • Posted by:DarthVader

    #17  BTW I thought VPOTUS Biden said it was 19, NOT 23???
    Posted by: JosephMendiola   2013-01-16 23:34  

    #16  Meanwhile, D'JANGO Fans, those illegals sneaking into the US from Mexico are taking a well-earned siesta because their illegal comrades up in Canada are demanding "fair-n-equal time" [catch-up] wid Mexico as per covert penetration into the US.

    NO NEED FOR PRIVATE GUN OWNERSHIP ANYMORE BECAUSE THE CANADIANS WILL STOP'EM COLD JUST AS THEY STOPPED SEVERAL SOVIET ARMY GROUPS FROM INVADING ALASKA, CANADA, + UPPER US IN THE ORIGINAL "RED DAWN".
    Posted by: JosephMendiola   2013-01-16 23:32  

    #15  The training for active shooter response is long overdue. Only thing missing is giving teachers the firearm to fully carry out the full gamut of proper responses. Some of these are horrid CDC, consumer product safety, etc. but there are a few good things in there (surprised the hell out of me).
    Posted by: OldSpook   2013-01-16 23:25  

    #14  Better to ask if you own or operate a motor vehicle given the higher rate of deaths associated with the technology.

    Even better to ask if you had been in a hospital - An average of 195,000 people in the USA died due to potentially preventable, in-hospital medical errors in each of the years 2000, 2001 and 2002, according to a new study of 37 million patient records...
    Posted by: Procopius2k   2013-01-16 20:37  

    #13  ThereÂ’s actually a progession going on here.
    #6 :Is the setup for later gun regulations and backgroud checks on personal sales and gifts.
    -Remember, govt programs never go away, they just look for something to do.-
    #14 : The CDC study. Want to bet what they official result is? Health and safety risk.
    Which leads toÂ…
    #16 : Will these doctorÂ’s questions be official, or can you decline to discuss?
    And -ta-daÂ…
    #21 : Your health insurer and ACA supplier gets to ask specific questions regarding health risks, aka smoking, drinking, drugs. They add gun ownership to list, and want specific answers, as in type, serial numbers, and ammunition availability. TheyÂ’re not the govt, so no rights apply. Price of coverage would be based on the answers, coverage could be denied/cancelled based on answers or the lack thereof.

    Now tell me IÂ’m paranoid.
    Posted by: ed in texas   2013-01-16 20:27  

    #12  I wonder if when I go see my VA primary care physician whether they will ask me about weapons I possess.
    Posted by: Penguin   2013-01-16 20:10  

    #11  Nothing about providing firearms to our enemies in the Mideast either.
    Posted by: JohnQC   2013-01-16 16:47  

    #10  "The state must declare the child to be the most precious treasure of the people. As long as the government is perceived as working for the benefit of the children, the people will happily endure almost any curtailment of liberty and almost any deprivation."

    --- Adolph Hitler, Mein Kampf
    Posted by: Uncle Phester   2013-01-16 16:38  

    #9  Issue a Presidential Memorandum to require federal law enforcement to trace guns recovered in criminal investigations.

    And if they trace them back to those sold by DoJ in Fast and Furious after murdering Mexican citizens who's going to be prosecuted? /rhet question
    Posted by: Procopius2k   2013-01-16 16:32  

    #8  Could not agree more Doctor. That CDC crowd are are pathogens unto themselves. If you want reliably independent, valid research conducted, visit BMI in Columbus.
    Posted by: Besoeker   2013-01-16 16:05  

    #7  Besoeker: having the CDC involved has been a long-time dream/plan for the progressives. They want to use it for stealth regulation, the same way they've wanted the CDC to regulate tobacco, salt and sugar. I'm not kidding. If the CDC can 'study' it, they can come up with 'recommendations'. Remember, they want 'science' to drive the debate -- their science.
    Posted by: Steve White   2013-01-16 15:43  

    #6  Launch a national dialogue led by Secretaries Sebelius and Duncan on mental health.

    I guess it makes sense for crazy people to lead the discussion on craziness...
    Posted by: Glenmore   2013-01-16 15:05  

    #5  Issue a Presidential Memorandum to require federal law enforcement to trace guns recovered in criminal investigations.

    They don't do this already? It takes an EO? Why?
    Posted by: Glenmore   2013-01-16 15:03  

    #4  Launch a national safe and responsible gun ownership campaign.

    Redundant; NRA does it already.
    Posted by: Glenmore   2013-01-16 15:02  

    #3  give law enforcement the ability to run a full background check on an individual before returning a seized gun.
    So seizing a gun gives permission for a 'fishing expedition'? Was the gun seized 'for cause' of some kind, or just because a policeman saw it? Was it seized from the owner or from a gun shop or from someone who had stolen it?
    Posted by: Glenmore   2013-01-16 15:01  

    #2  No mention of the US government selling assault rifles to criminals.
    Posted by: airandee   2013-01-16 14:59  

    #1  Issue a Presidential Memorandum directing the Centers for Disease Control to research the causes and prevention of gun violence.

    Violence is now a disease? Hereditary, developmental, or acquired?
    Posted by: Besoeker   2013-01-16 13:55  

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