Should the U.S. toughen its gun laws?

O'Liars 23 executive orders re; gun control
1. Issue a Presidential Memorandum to require federal agencies to make relevant data available to the federal background check system. * Oh, you mean do what the agencies have been supposed to be doing all along.
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. * The maze of laws and regulations belched out by Congress and the Executive branch each year, and which we underwhelmingly support, have a deleterious impact on background checks, as they do with accomplishing anything in this country.
3. Improve incentives for states to share information with the background check system.
* Fall in line States, or we will deprive you of Federal money.
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. * Barack Husseign Obama can start with the Fast and Furious gunrunning scheme to the Mexican drug dealers that he implemented.
5. Propose rulemaking to give law enforcement the ability to run a full background check on an individual before returning a seized gun. * In other words grant them a power they already have in every state.
6. Publish a letter from ATF to federally licensed gun dealers providing guidance on how to run background checks for private sellers. * File 13 awaits those letters.
7. Launch a national safe and responsible gun ownership campaign. * Put the NRA in charge of it. They have been running gun safety courses since the 19th century.
8. Review safety standards for gun locks and gun safes (Consumer Product Safety Commission). * A review in search of a problem. Guns are very safe, ill-trained or careless owners, not so much.
9. Issue a Presidential Memorandum to require federal law enforcement to trace guns recovered in criminal investigations. * Something routinely done in virtually every jurisdiction in the United States.
10. Release a DOJ report analyzing information on lost and stolen guns and make it widely available to law enforcement. * Something else for local cops to ignore. The paper churned out by the Feds to local law enforcement would take up a large part of their time if they actually paid attention to most of it, which they don’t.
11. Nominate an ATF director. * Having a permanent director as opposed to the interim director who has served since 2011 and who Obama has nominated will make all the difference in the world for that troubled agency...NOT!
12. Provide law enforcement, first responders, and school officials with proper training for active shooter situations. * Any “first responders” who already do not have plans to deal with a shooter should be fired on the spot. More useless training to provide a dog and pony show for the public.
13. Maximize enforcement efforts to prevent gun violence and prosecute gun crime. * This ranks with saying we are going to try really, really hard to do the job that we should have been doing all along.
14. Issue a Presidential Memorandum directing the Centers for Disease Control to research the causes and prevention of gun violence. * Moral and law enforcement problems transformed into a medical problem.
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 * We have had these devices called safeties and locked gun cabinets for a very long time Mr. Attorney General, so save yourself the work.
16. Clarify that the Affordable Care Act does not prohibit doctors asking their patients about guns in their homes. * Because we always look for advice on home defense from doctors or should they now be called federal snitches?
17. Release a letter to health care providers clarifying that no federal law prohibits them from reporting threats of violence to law enforcement authorities. * Something they already know, since they are covered by state mandatory reporting laws now.
18. Provide incentives for schools to hire school resource officers. * Yeah, that is the same proposal that liberals went berserk over when the head of the NRA made it a month ago! One-third of schools already have armed guards and/or cops in them.
19. Develop model emergency response plans for schools, houses of worship and institutions of higher education. * Maybe not advertising that they are gun free zones, (Free Kill Zones) so that every loon knows they will be a happy hunting ground?
20. Release a letter to state health officials clarifying the scope of mental health services that Medicaid plans must cover. * We will overlook the fact that most mass shooters have received mental health care that did not prevent their rampages.
21. Finalize regulations clarifying essential health benefits and parity requirements within ACA exchanges. * In the words of Rahm Emanuel, never let a crisis go to waste.
22. Commit to finalizing mental health parity regulations. * Did Rahm Emanuel write some of these 23 edicts?
23. Launch a national dialogue led by Secretaries Sebelius and Duncan on mental health. *Because they have been so successful at running Obamacare and the Department of Education that they have plenty of time to talk about better living through more liberal progressive head shrinking.

Summary of O'Liars 23 Edicts; Just more BS about reissuing laws that are already on the books & making government do their fu*king job following these laws that they were suppose to be doing in the first place.

In 1929, the Soviet Union established gun control. >From 1929 to 1953, about 20 million dissidents, unable to defend themselves, were rounded up and exterminated
In 1911, Turkey established gun control. From 1915 to 1917, 1.5 million Armenians, unable to defend themselves, were rounded up and exterminated.
Germany established gun control in 1938 and from 1939 to 1945, a total of 13 million Jews and others who were unable to defend themselves were rounded up and exterminated.
China established gun control in 1935. From 1948 to 1952, 20 million political dissidents, unable to defend themselves were rounded up and exterminated
Guatemala established gun control in 1964. From 1964 to 1981, 100,000 Mayan Indians, unable to defend themselves, were rounded up and exterminated.
Uganda established gun control in 1970. From 1971 to 1979, 300,000 Christians, unable to defend themselves, were rounded up and exterminated.
Cambodia established gun control in 1956. From 1975 to 1977, one million educated people, unable to defend themselves, were rounded up and exterminated.
Defenseless people rounded up and exterminated in the 20th Century because of gun control: 56 million. You won't see this data on the US evening news, or hear politicians disseminating this information. Guns in the hands of honest citizens save lives and property and, yes, gun-control laws adversely affect only the law-abiding citizens.

Take note my fellow Americans, before it's too late! The next time someone talks in favor of gun control, please remind them of this history lesson. With guns, we are 'citizens'. Without them, we are 'subjects'.During WWII the Japanese decided not to invade America because they knew most Americans were ARMED! If you value your freedom, please spread this antigun-control message to all of your friends. SWITZERLAND ISSUES EVERY HOUSEHOLD A GUN!SWITZERLAND'S GOVERNMENT TRAINS EVERY ADULT THEY ISSUE A RIFLE. SWITZERLAND HAS THE LOWEST GUN RELATED CRIME RATE OF ANY CIVILIZED COUNTRY IN THE WORLD!!! IT'S A NO BRAINER!DON'T LET OUR GOVERNMENT WASTE MILLIONS OF OUR TAX DOLLARS IN AN EFFORT TO MAKE ALL LAW ABIDING CITIZENS AN EASY TARGET. Spread the word everywhere you can that you are a firm believer in the 2nd Amendment!It's time to speak loud before they try to silence and disarm us.You're not imagining it, history shows that governments always manipulate tragedies to attempt to disarm the people.

Defense Authorization Act
this new bill, which passed the Senate with an alarming majority, allows the military to arrest American citizens on American soil and keep them without trial. It’s being called the “America the Battlefield” bill, because it treats your front yard like a battlefield — and every citizen like a potential enemy. It basically puts a giant asterisk next to the Bill of Rights saying, “unless we don’t feel like it,” and coupled with the Patriot Act disolves most of the bill of rights.

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Hayley...I always can tell when a liberal is commenting on one of my posts. Know how? They always start off with insults, swearing or attacks on my character. It's like they have a playbook or something that teaches them to start off that way to disorient. Well, let me start by saying that you don't know me. You have no idea, not even the slightest concept of the kind of human being that I am...so, your attack on my right to vote and/or freedom of speech is an embarrassment to you! Someone should have taught you not to judge people you don't know...or..at least to have some manners when addressing someone you don't know.

Now to the meat...if you would have read my post carefully you would have seen that I did not call Emperor Obama "Hitler" as many others have done...nor...did I even actually compare him to Hitler. All I said was that his using kids for the emotional/PR value to tug at heartstrings, and to distract people from his true agenda REMINDED me of old newreels of Hitler performing similarly as he was issuing edicts that eventually led to his becoming dictator.

Wise people have always warned that if we don't pay attention to the mistakes from the past...we are doomed to repeat them. Well, one of the first things that Hitler did when he took office was called for tight gun controls and gun registration...which in short order led to a nationwide seizure of those registered weapons so that the people could not resist his overthrowing the government. Maybe none of that would happen in America, but history shows that it has happened time and again!

Oh, and I don't know why liberals think that conservatives all listen to Fox News, Glenn Beck and Rush Limbaugh like mindless sheep when nothing could be further from the truth! I am fully capable of making my own mind up on the issues...thank you very much!