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Background Checks on Gun Sales:
"Addressing unnecessary legal barriers in HEALTH LAWS that prevent some states from making information available about those prohibited from having guns”
“Improving incentives for states to share information with the system”
“End the freeze on Gun Violence Research”
“Preserve the rights of doctors to protect their patients and communities from Gun violence”
“The Administration is clarifying that no federal law in any way prohibits doctors or other health care providers from reporting their patients’ threats of violence to the authorities”.
“Making school safer - opportunity to hire 1000 resources to ‘act’ as school psychologists, counselors”
“Create Safer School Climates”
“The Department of Education will collect and disseminate best practices on school discipline polices and help school districts develop and equitably implement their policies”.
“Improving Mental Health Services”
“Make sure students with signs of mental illness get referred (by teachers) to treatment:
“Ensure coverage of mental health treatment”
“Ensuring that insurance plans cover mental health benefits at parity with other benefits”
I also believe most gun owners agree that we can respect the Second Amendment while keeping an irresponsible, law-breaking few from inflicting harm on a massive scale. I believe most of them agree that if America worked harder to keep guns out of the hands of dangerous people, there would be fewer atrocities like the one that occurred in Newtown.
That’s what these reforms are designed to do. They’re commonsense measures. They have the support of the majority of the American people.
Second, Congress should restore a ban on military-style assault weapons, and a 10 round limit for magazines.
The type of assault rifle used in Aurora, for example, when paired with high capacity magazines has one purpose: to pump out as many bullets as possible as quickly as possible, to do as much damage using bullets often designed to inflict maximum damage.
Originally posted by butcherguy
Where is the ACLU on all of this?
This is just the sort of thing that they SHOULD be fired up about.
Originally posted by aryaputhra
Next – (the real big kahuna)
“Preserve the rights of doctors to protect their patients and communities from Gun violence”
Sounds nice, doesn’t it? Well you didn’t read the fine print moran. It says:
“The Administration is clarifying that no federal law in any way prohibits doctors or other health care providers from reporting their patients’ threats of violence to the authorities”.
Oh, so that means doctors will be coerced to REPORT to “authorities” (who’s authority – I thought they were public servants?) if you are considered mentally unstable.
Originally posted by butcherguy
Where is the ACLU on all of this?
This is just the sort of thing that they SHOULD be fired up about.
reply to post by ThirdEyeofHorus
The ACLU is a leftist front group with an interest in collective rights, not in individual rights. They always go for the leftist agendas.
The origins of the American Civil Liberties Union are deeply entangled with Communism. Not the idealistic “liberals in a hurry” stuff of fellow-travelling fairy tale, but the bloody-minded sedition and revolutionary terror of hard historical reality.
[ACLU founder Roger] Baldwin’s radicalism caught the eye of the FBI, which quoted him in a 1924 report as having said: “The right to advocate a violent revolution, assassination, and proletarian Red guard, are all clearly within scope of free speech …”
The ACLU founder traveled to Stalin’s Russia in 1927 and wrote a book titled “Liberty Under The Soviets” the following year, which defended the Lenin’s and Stalin’s repression of dissent because they “are weapons in the transition to socialism.”
Most gun owners are responsible and law-abiding, and they use their guns safely. ThePresident strongly believes that the Second Amendment guarantees an individual rightto bear arms. But to better protect our children and our communities from tragic massshootings like those in Newtown, Aurora, Oak Creek, and Tucson, there are fourcommon-sense steps we can take right now.
A 2010 survey by the Police Executive ResearchForum found that more than one-third of police departments reported an increase in criminals’ use of assault weapons and high-capacity magazines since the prohibition on high-capacity magazines and assault weapons expired in 2004. To protect lawenforcement and enhance public safety, we must redouble our efforts to:
Finish the job of getting armor-piercing bullets off the streets:
It is alreadyillegal to manufacture and import armor-piercing ammunition except formilitary or law enforcement use. But it is generally still not illegal to possess or transfer this dangerous ammunition. Congress should finish the job ofprotecting law enforcement and the public by banning the possession of armor-piercing ammunition by, and its transfer to, anyone other than the military and law enforcement.
4) ban 'em all day long - if anyone wants armor piercing ammo, they can have it with just a couple hours work in the workshop. No, I'm not going to tell how, but it doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure it out. What a "ban" does is remove the ability to track armor piercing rounds, since they then become home workshop projects that aren't listed in inventory any where.