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mick silver
5th January 2016, 08:11 AM
White House Will Require Background Checks at Gun Shows and Online
By ARLETTE SAENZ 7 hours ago Good Morning America (http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/)
President Obama to Address Nation About His Gun Control Plans
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President Obama Takes on Gun Control With Executive Action
The White House announced new executive actions on gun control (http://abcnews.go.com/topics/news/issues/gun-control.htm) Monday, including a requirement for those "in the business of selling firearms" -- including online or at gun shows -- to register as a licensed gun dealer.
As a result of the move, the background checks (http://abcnews.go.com/topics/news/issues/universal-background-checks.htm) would be required for individuals purchasing firearms in those ways. There is currently no licensing requirement for private sellers online or at gun shows, and only licensed dealers are required to conduct background checks on individuals.
"Just because you shop for guns with your mouse and not your feet doesn't mean you should be able to avoid background checks," White House Senior Advisor Valerie Jarrett (http://abcnews.go.com/topics/news/whitehouse/valerie-jarrett.htm) said in a conference call Monday.
The new proposal aims to narrow the so-called gun show loophole and circumvents Congress, which has previously voted against initiatives to expand background checks. The new executive action clarifies the current rules by defining who qualifies as a gun dealer, but Attorney General Loretta Lynch was unable to provide an estimate for how many sellers would be impacted or how many additional background checks will now be conducted.
In addition to requiring background checks at gun shows and online, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives is finalizing a rule that will require individuals attempting to purchase firearms through a trust or corporation to undergo background checks. The FBI will also overhaul its background check system and add more than 230 additional examiners to process these background checks.
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In addition, the White House is working to bolster mental health treatment by proposing a $500 million to increase access to mental health care, which will need Congressional approval, and wants to increase the use of mental health information in conducting background checks.
Attorney General Loretta Lynch has also written a letter asking states to update their criminal record files, which are used in background checks, to include information on people who are disqualified from purchasing weapons due to mental illness and domestic abuse. The Department of Health and Human Services is also finalizing a new rule that would remove legal barriers which prevent people from sharing information about individuals who have mental health issues that would prohibit them from buying weapons.
After a months-long review process conducted by the administration, the president is set to formally announce the executive actions Tuesday. He’ll continue his gun control push on Thursday when he participates in a live CNN town hall discussing the plans.
"These are not only recommendations that are well within my legal authority and the executive branch, but they’re also ones that the overwhelming majority of the American people including gun owners support and believe in,” the president said after meeting with Attorney General Loretta Lynch (http://abcnews.go.com/topics/news/whitehouse/loretta-e.-lynch.htm), FBI (http://abcnews.go.com/topics/news/us/federal-bureau-of-investigation.htm) Director James Comey (http://abcnews.go.com/topics/news/whitehouse/james-b.-comey.htm), and other law enforcement officials earlier in the day. He added the proposals are also “entirely consistent with the Second Amendment (http://abcnews.go.com/topics/news/us/second-amendment.htm) and people’s lawful right to bear arms.”
“This is not going to solve every violent crime in this country. It’s not going to prevent every mass shooting. It’s not going to keep every gun out of the hands of a criminal,” he said. “It will potentially save lives in this country and spare families the pain and the extraordinary loss that they’ve suffered as a consequence of a firearm being in the hands of wrong people.”
mick silver
5th January 2016, 08:13 AM
I love that even when they're making it up as they go, it doesn't sound realistic. The only firearms you can purchase online without a license are those federally considered "antiques" which is any one that uses percussion caps, or a long gun made before 1898. Haven't heard of any mass shootings involving blackpowder pistols or muskets.
The real joke of this whole idea is that if their nonsense new laws require any organization by the government, they'll never get off the ground. As a California resident, I watch this happen every few years when the commies pass a new law in Sacramento. CA DOJ has to actually implement said laws, and they don't generally know how. It takes a lot of people getting angry for them to learn the new things THEY pushed on us and make it all work like it's supposed to. Now imagine that on a federal level? Laughable.
Horn
5th January 2016, 08:40 AM
Its discrimination against crazy people...
The creation of laws regarding "crime" being recorded and effectual for life in society only creates career criminals and mental patients in society. Obama preys for a criminally insane society.
palani
5th January 2016, 08:49 AM
Inquiring minds would like to know .... precisely how many mass murders from the past would these new regulations have prevented?
And how about that federal exercise a few years back that shipped guns into Mexico?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ATF_gunwalking_scandal
Feds who live in glass houses need to be careful about casting stones.
Horn
5th January 2016, 09:00 AM
Many gun dealers probably secretly lobby for these laws too, cause their badge gets shinier.
monty
5th January 2016, 09:48 AM
Inquiring minds would like to know .... precisely how many mass murders from the past would these new regulations have prevented?
And how about that federal exercise a few years back that shipped guns into Mexico?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ATF_gunwalking_scandal
Feds who live in glass houses need to be careful about casting stones.
who in government wants to prevent mass murders? Never let a good crisis go to waste.
Ares
5th January 2016, 09:50 AM
Under what authority can the president declare that people selling firearms at gun shows require a gun dealer license?
This action is completely unenforceable.
Looks like the House Appropriations committee is also warning the DOJ to back off and not enforce that idiots executive order:
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http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-01-05/republican-threatens-doj-budget-over-obamas-tyrannical-gun-control-action
monty
5th January 2016, 09:53 AM
Federal laws are in full force and effect in the District of Columbia, in the territories, in Puerto Rico and in theinsular possessions. Executive orders apply to the executive branch, perhaps in some other areas of federal jurisdiction,
monty
5th January 2016, 09:54 AM
Under what authority can the president declare that people selling firearms at gun shows require a gun dealer license?
This action is completely unenforceable.
The federal firearms act is also uenforceable in the fifty union states
Ares
5th January 2016, 10:03 AM
The federal firearms act is also uenforceable in the fifty union states
I've actually seen that happen second hand. Someone online was being charged with having a fully automatic weapon without a tax stamp. He turned around and filed a claim against the attorney using this:
" i: a man; require the UNITED STATES OF AMERICA to show up and verify his/her claim against me so i may cross examine my accuser (the plaintiff must appear) and compensate him/her for any harm i may have caused. If this man/woman that goes by the name 'UNITED STATES OF AMERICA' cannot show up to verify his/her claim, i require this matter immediately discharged. It is my belief there is no man/woman named 'UNITED STATES OF AMERICA' who can verify this claim by uttering with his/her voice I've done wrong or caused him/her personal harm, injury, or loss, therefore pressing it upon the record in open court. It is also my belief, that someone is filing complaints (false claims) on behalf of this entity known as the 'UNITED STATES OF AMERICA' in an attempt to unjustly enrich themselves and the 'UNITED STATES OF AMERICA' (whoever those individuals may be) and deprive me of my property without due process of law. If this matter is not immediately discharged, i will be requiring leave of court so i may bring a proper and verifiable claim before the court to address this trespass against me in the proper venue-a court of record (trespasses being: filing false claims, barratry, malicious prosecution, unjust enrichment, theft, robbery, etc.), in which i will be requiring compensation for the trespasses and wasting my valuable time, money, and resources having to deal with this complaint, as i do not have time to answer complaints without compensation at this time. If there is an actual verifiable claim before the court, i will be more than happy to show up free of charge and address any proper and verifiable claim against me. i also require and order the immediate restoration of my property."
The charges were immediately dropped and he had his weapon returned to him.
mick silver
5th January 2016, 10:29 AM
not a word out of his mouth about gangs drug dealers ..... not a word
Horn
5th January 2016, 10:37 AM
The charges were immediately dropped and he had his weapon returned to him.
I think it were that last line where he required compensation for his valuable time that sunk them, great stuff.
Wonder if its true?
mick silver
5th January 2016, 10:37 AM
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WASHINGTON (Sputnik) — People involved in trading firearms in the United States will be required to obtain special licenses and carry out background checks of their customers, President Barack Obama said on Tuesday in announcing an executive action on gun control.“Anybody in the business of selling firearms must get a license and conduct background checks or be subject to criminal prosecutions,” Obama stated.
According to Obama, the US government is implementing measures to improve the existing background check system to prevent criminals from purchasing arms.
“We are also taking steps to make the background check system more efficient,” Obama stated. “We are going to hire more folks to process applications faster, and we are going to bring the outdated background check system into the 21 century.”
Moreover, the United States will augment its background check system by guaranteeing mental health records are sent to the weapons background probes.
“We are going to ensure that [US] federal mental health records are submitted to the background check system and remove barriers that prevent states from reporting relevant information,” Obama stated in his announcement at The White House.
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Gun-Free Zones 'Catastrophe' – US Presidential Candidate Trump (http://sputniknews.com/us/20151029/1029263571/Gun-Free-Zones-Trump.html)Donald Trump called to abolish gun-free zones in the country during the third Republican debate. (http://sputniknews.com/us/20151029/1029263571/Gun-Free-Zones-Trump.html)
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mick silver
5th January 2016, 10:42 AM
00:10 22.10.20152 (http://sputniknews.com/us/20151022/1028901418.html#comments)393
More Than Half of US Citizens Oppose Stricter Gun Control Laws - Poll (http://sputniknews.com/us/20151022/1028901418.html)A new CNN/ORC poll reveals that fifty-two percent of Americans do not want the US government to implement stricter gun control laws despite mass shooting incidents that claim lives and injure people. (http://sputniknews.com/us/20151022/1028901418.html)
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13:21 19.10.20151 (http://sputniknews.com/us/20151019/1028738868/gun-control-us-against-rise.html#comments)105
Number of US Citizens Urging Tighter Gun Control Sees 8% Rise (http://sputniknews.com/us/20151019/1028738868/gun-control-us-against-rise.html)Over 50 percent of US citizens answering a questionnaire believe that the country should tighten its gun control laws, a distinct increase since last year’s number, a pollster revealed Monday. (http://sputniknews.com/us/20151019/1028738868/gun-control-us-against-rise.html)
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13:18 12.10.20151 (http://sputniknews.com/radio_as_if/20151012/1028389270/shootings-gun-control.html#comments)434
Have You Ever Wanted to Shoot Someone? (http://sputniknews.com/radio_as_if/20151012/1028389270/shootings-gun-control.html)Having a gun means you don’t need to work out. You got pecs, I got Tecs! (http://sputniknews.com/radio_as_if/20151012/1028389270/shootings-gun-control.html)
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21:42 11.10.20153 (http://sputniknews.com/us/20151011/1028366996/september-saw-record-gun-sales-after-oregon-shooting.html#comments)332
September Saw Record Gun Sales Following Oregon Shooting - FBI (http://sputniknews.com/us/20151011/1028366996/september-saw-record-gun-sales-after-oregon-shooting.html)It’s been a blazing-hot summer for gun sales which in September hit a record high for the fifth month in a row. (http://sputniknews.com/us/20151011/1028366996/september-saw-record-gun-sales-after-oregon-shooting.html)
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16:09 08.10.20152 (http://sputniknews.com/radio_the_bradcast/20151008/1028210179/NRA-gunman-shooting-Oregon.html#comments)130
Shredding the NRA's 'Good Guy With a Gun' Myth (http://sputniknews.com/radio_the_bradcast/20151008/1028210179/NRA-gunman-shooting-Oregon.html)On today's show Brad is joined by The Nation's Joshua Holland to discuss his article "Combat Vets Destroy the NRA's Heroic Gunslinger Fantasy". Examining yet another enduring NRA myth in the wake of the Oregon massacre at Umpqua Community College; the GOP race for U.S. House Speaker could get very interesting and more. (http://sputniknews.com/radio_the_bradcast/20151008/1028210179/NRA-gunman-shooting-Oregon.html)
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10:41 05.10.2015 0 (http://sputniknews.com/us/20151005/1028025648/clinton-propose-tighter-gun-regulations.html#comments)141
Hillary Clinton to Propose Tighter Gun Regulations on Monday (http://sputniknews.com/us/20151005/1028025648/clinton-propose-tighter-gun-regulations.html)According to media reports, US Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton is set to announce on Monday her plans to enact tighter regulations on sales at gun shows if she is elected the US president. (http://sputniknews.com/us/20151005/1028025648/clinton-propose-tighter-gun-regulations.html)
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14:08 04.10.20152 (http://sputniknews.com/columnists/20151004/1027995756/mass-killing-american-way.html#comments)1726
Mass Killing is the American Way (http://sputniknews.com/columnists/20151004/1027995756/mass-killing-american-way.html)Another week and another mass shooting in the United States. The latest atrocity was at a college in Oregon, where at least 10 people were killed when a lone gunman went on a shooting spree. Several others were critically maimed. This year alone, there have been 300 such mass shootings across the US. Almost one every day. (http://sputniknews.com/columnists/20151004/1027995756/mass-killing-american-way.html)
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21:13 03.10.2015 0 (http://sputniknews.com/us/20151003/1027977915/oregon-sheriff-had-shared-sandy-hook-conspiracy-theories-on-facebook.html#comments)4125
Sheriff Investigating Shooting Posted Sandy Hook Conspiracy Theory (http://sputniknews.com/us/20151003/1027977915/oregon-sheriff-had-shared-sandy-hook-conspiracy-theories-on-facebook.html)Following Thursday’s shootings at Oregon’s Umpqua Community College that claimed the lives of 13 people, the Douglass County sheriff in charge of the investigation is once again being placed under scrutiny. (http://sputniknews.com/us/20151003/1027977915/oregon-sheriff-had-shared-sandy-hook-conspiracy-theories-on-facebook.html)
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03:16 03.10.20156 (http://sputniknews.com/us/20151003/1027949513.html#comments)545
US Gun Violence Spirals Out of Control: The Shocking Numbers, Again (http://sputniknews.com/us/20151003/1027949513.html)In his comments reacting to Thursday’s college campus shooting massacre in Oregon - the 15th time he’s had to address the nation following a mass shooting this year alone - US President Barack Obama asked the country’s media to publish statistics comparing US death tolls from terrorism and gun violence. (http://sputniknews.com/us/20151003/1027949513.html)
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04:00 16.09.201516 (http://sputniknews.com/us/20150916/1027054160.html#comments)2824
Report: More Killed by Guns in US Since 1989 Than in All Wars in US History (http://sputniknews.com/us/20150916/1027054160.html)The number of gun deaths in the United States since 1989 is greater than the number of American combat fatalities in wars and military conflicts throughout all of US history, a new report shows. (http://sputniknews.com/us/20150916/1027054160.html)
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21:40 09.09.20152 (http://sputniknews.com/us/20150909/1026794997/gun-safety-measures-in-us-david-hemenway.html#comments)284
Guns N’ Safety Measures: US Must Work to Bring in Stricter Gun Handling Rules (http://sputniknews.com/us/20150909/1026794997/gun-safety-measures-in-us-david-hemenway.html)As the United States has become embroiled in gun violence, something must be done to fix the problem, David Hemenway, Professor of Health Policy at Harvard University, told Radio Spunik’s BradC
Read more: http://sputniknews.com/tags/keyword_gun_control/#ixzz3wOQ9tT6K
mick silver
5th January 2016, 10:42 AM
17:48 07.09.20158 (http://sputniknews.com/radio_thom_hartmann_show/20150907/1026700357.html#comments)830
Time to Start Treating Guns Like Abortions (http://sputniknews.com/radio_thom_hartmann_show/20150907/1026700357.html)It's time we start regulating guns like we regulate abortions. Because it just makes sense that we regulate these individual rights in the same way. (http://sputniknews.com/radio_thom_hartmann_show/20150907/1026700357.html)
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21:31 28.08.20155 (http://sputniknews.com/us/20150828/1026318360/gun-violence-roanoke.html#comments)1590
Levels of Gun Violence in US Unlike Those of Any Other Developed Country, Period (http://sputniknews.com/us/20150828/1026318360/gun-violence-roanoke.html)Radio Sputnik syndicated radio host Brad Friedman, outraged over the US government's "cowardly" inaction over extremely high levels of gun violence in America, even in the midst of shocking mass shootings like the one in Roanoke, Virginia on Wednesday, asked whether anything will ever be done as such tragedies continues. (http://sputniknews.com/us/20150828/1026318360/gun-violence-roanoke.html)
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01:46 17.08.20156 (http://sputniknews.com/us/20150817/1025819167.html#comments)490
Bullets and the Bible: Alabama Church Opens Gun Range (http://sputniknews.com/us/20150817/1025819167.html)Ever wanted to fire off some rounds in the name of the lord? You can do so at a church in Alabama, which has opened a gun range. (http://sputniknews.com/us/20150817/1025819167.html)
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21:09 16.08.20151 (http://sputniknews.com/us/20150816/1025814861/study-gun-ownership-police-deaths.html#comments)164
Study: High Gun Ownership Areas Have Highest Rate of Police Officer Deaths (http://sputniknews.com/us/20150816/1025814861/study-gun-ownership-police-deaths.html)A new study suggests that police officers are three times more likely to die in the line of duty in states with the highest rates of registered gun ownership as opposed to states with the lowest rates. (http://sputniknews.com/us/20150816/1025814861/study-gun-ownership-police-deaths.html)
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13:54 07.08.2015 0 (http://sputniknews.com/radio_looking_forward/20150807/1025495303.html#comments)265
How Contagious is Gun Violence? (http://sputniknews.com/radio_looking_forward/20150807/1025495303.html)Scientists have found that killing sprees and school shootings in the United States may inspire others to commit similar acts of violence for an average of 13 days after the initial tragedy. (http://sputniknews.com/radio_looking_forward/20150807/1025495303.html)
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23:56 28.07.20151 (http://sputniknews.com/us/20150728/1025152586.html#comments)228
US Gun Lobby Preventing National Laws on Background Checks - NGO (http://sputniknews.com/us/20150728/1025152586.html)The founder of the activist group Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America claims that the strength of the US gun lobby has prevented lawmakers from requiring comprehensive background checks on gun buyers. (http://sputniknews.com/us/20150728/1025152586.html)
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01:37 27.07.201513 (http://sputniknews.com/art_living/20150727/1025076514.html#comments)3912
8 Facts You Should Know About Guns and Mass Shootings in US (http://sputniknews.com/art_living/20150727/1025076514.html)Mass gun violence is gathering momentum in the US. (http://sputniknews.com/art_living/20150727/1025076514.html)
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00:34 19.07.20152 (http://sputniknews.com/us/20150719/1024791906.html#comments)2165
'The War Is Here': Unnamed Armed Vigilante Stood Guard at Recruitment Base (http://sputniknews.com/us/20150719/1024791906.html)An anonymous Virginia resident was guarding a recruitment base with a rifle to protect unarmed officers. He claimed the personnel met him with gratitude, bringing lunch and cookies, local TV reported. (http://sputniknews.com/us/20150719/1024791906.html)
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03:30 11.07.20155 (http://sputniknews.com/us/20150711/1024483642.html#comments)2369
Bernie Sanders Surprises Audience by Defending Gun Owners and Manufacturers (http://sputniknews.com/us/20150711/1024483642.html)Bernie Sanders, the 2016 presidential candidate, defended his actions when it comes to gun control in the US Senate (http://sputniknews.com/us/20150711/1024483642.html)
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mick silver
5th January 2016, 10:44 AM
23:04 08.07.2015 0 (http://sputniknews.com/us/20150708/1024388875.html#comments)1383
Armed in the USA: Guns Sales Skyrocket in June (http://sputniknews.com/us/20150708/1024388875.html)As the nation recovers from yet another mass shooting, this time in a Charleston Church in South Carolina where a white man shot and killed nine black churchgoers, new data from the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) reveals this past June saw the highest number of background checks for gun sales in the United States in over two decades. (http://sputniknews.com/us/20150708/1024388875.html)
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19:57 24.06.2015 0 (http://sputniknews.com/us/20150624/1023798958.html#comments)126
Wisconsin Governor Sees More Guns as Solution to Charleston Shooting (http://sputniknews.com/us/20150624/1023798958.html)According to media reports, Scott Walker plans to cancel the two days waiting period for those looking to purchase a firearm and to allow ex cops to carry weapons at schools. (http://sputniknews.com/us/20150624/1023798958.html)
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22:31 20.06.20152 (http://sputniknews.com/us/20150620/1023641931.html#comments)1017
Author: ‘Anti-Intellectualism is Killing America’ (http://sputniknews.com/us/20150620/1023641931.html)An author and activist, in an essay posted on Psychology Today, blames a culture of ‘anti-intellectualism’ on the violence in the United States. That includes “hate” and “racism.” (http://sputniknews.com/us/20150620/1023641931.html)
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19:23 07.06.201514 (http://sputniknews.com/us/20150607/1023061957.html#comments)4756
White Texas Open Carry Activists With Loaded Guns Defy Police, Are Let Go (Video) (http://sputniknews.com/us/20150607/1023061957.html)After concealed-carry activists in Texas took their firearms onto private property, they were approached by police carrying assault rifles leading to a tense standoff caught on video. (http://sputniknews.com/us/20150607/1023061957.html)
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17:36 31.05.20153 (http://sputniknews.com/us/20150531/1022780315.html#comments)1401
House Bill Would Force Gun Owners to Buy Insurance or Pay $10,000 (http://sputniknews.com/us/20150531/1022780315.html)A new bill could force gun owners to carry liability insurance. Gun owners who do not buy the insurance would be fined $10,000. (http://sputniknews.com/us/20150531/1022780315.html)
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00:53 24.05.2015 0 (http://sputniknews.com/us/20150524/1022500010.html#comments)1320
Open-Carry Law Passes in Texas Days After Waco Biker Gang Shootout (http://sputniknews.com/us/20150524/1022500010.html)In the wake of a Waco, Texas shootout that left nine dead and eighteen injured, the Texas state legislature on Friday passed a bill that would allow citizens licensed for concealed-carry firearms to reveal their holstered handguns. (http://sputniknews.com/us/20150524/1022500010.html)
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18:44 08.04.20151 (http://sputniknews.com/us/20150408/1020628252.html#comments)139
Over 10% of US Firearms Owners Have History of Mental Instability (http://sputniknews.com/us/20150408/1020628252.html)More than ten percent of US residents that possess guns have a record of anger issues or impulsive behavior, a report published Wednesday in the journal Behavioral Sciences and the Law said. (http://sputniknews.com/us/20150408/1020628252.html)
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23:51 03.04.2015 0 (http://sputniknews.com/us/20150403/1020457379.html#comments)137
US to Prosecute Juveniles With Firearm Offenses Same as Adults (http://sputniknews.com/us/20150403/1020457379.html)"We need juveniles in our state to understand that carrying a gun has real consequences," said the attorney general of Delaware, commenting on the decision by the US Department of Justice to prosecute minors with firearm offenses same as adults. (http://sputniknews.com/us/20150403/1020457379.html)
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20:43 25.03.2015 0 (http://sputniknews.com/us/20150325/1020006228.html#comments)378
FBI Manipulates Mass Shooting Data to Help Obama’s Democrats – NGO Chief (http://sputniknews.com/us/20150325/1020006228.html)Exaggerating the increase in mass shootings in the United States aims to alarm people and increase general panic in the country, the president of the Crime Prevention Research Center (CPRC) told Sputnik. (http://sputniknews.com/us/20150325/1020006228.html)
16:01 18.03.2015 0 (http://sputniknews.com/europe/20150318/1019666315.html#comments)151
Serbs Asked Not to Toss Grenades Into Garbage Cans (http://sputniknews.com/europe/20150318/1019666315.html)Serbia's interior ministry on Wednesday urged citizens to hand over grenades rather than leave them in garbage cans as it seeks to cut down on illegal weapons left over from the 1990s Balkans wars. (http://sputniknews.com/europe/20150318/1019666315.html)
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mick silver
5th January 2016, 10:45 AM
02:29 16.03.2015 0 (http://sputniknews.com/us/20150316/1019533898.html#comments)735
Armed Activists Gather in PA Town to Protest Gun Restrictions (http://sputniknews.com/us/20150316/1019533898.html)Several dozen armed gun-rights advocates gathered in a Philadelphia suburb park today to protest a local town ordinance regulating firearms. They are calling on the district attorney to take legal action against the town. (http://sputniknews.com/us/20150316/1019533898.html)
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03:52 12.03.2015 0 (http://sputniknews.com/us/20150312/1019376364.html#comments)505
New Iowa Gun Law Threatens Public Safety - US Advocacy Group (http://sputniknews.com/us/20150312/1019376364.html)The Coalition to Stop Gun Violence Director of Communications says that a new proposed gun law in the US state of Iowa endangers public safety and should be alarming to every citizen. (http://sputniknews.com/us/20150312/1019376364.html)
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21:04 24.02.2015 0 (http://sputniknews.com/us/20150224/1018702433.html#comments)426
Documents Show Sandy Hook Shooting a Cash Cow for NRA (http://sputniknews.com/us/20150224/1018702433.html)The Sandy Hook shooting is counted among the most horrendous acts of violence in US history, and the deaths of 20 children infuriated the entire nation. But new financial records show that in the fallout, the NRA was able to harness fears about gun control reforms, and effectively used the massacre to increase its revenues by nearly $100 million (http://sputniknews.com/us/20150224/1018702433.html)
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madfranks
5th January 2016, 10:46 AM
And now all the republican candidates are promising that they will overturn Obama's executive order, because "an executive order can be rescinded just as easily as it was issued." But, how many here actually believe that any republican president will actually overturn this? Anyone?
Horn
5th January 2016, 11:02 AM
They dont need to be elected President they can overturn from congress, or the Court can.
Is just a campaign point or dictator reinforcementship.
obama is just playing dictator for his last year in office, maybe repugs are capitulating and bowing to dictatorship for a year, so that they can be dictators in the future?
Some jew somewhere probably setup that guaranteed Republican presidential victory swap deal up. "Let the people think Pres. has his own say"
Ares
5th January 2016, 11:27 AM
I think it were that last line where he required compensation for his valuable time that sunk them, great stuff.
Wonder if its true?
That guy posted on popularliberty.com (seems to be in an archive mode now and is difficult to search) and said he had been fighting that charge for a little while until he filed that claim I posted above. Right after that, charges were dismissed and his property restored. He didn't appear to be posting from prison lol, but again I don't have first hand knowledge of the case, I wish I did though.
EE_
5th January 2016, 11:29 AM
And now all the republican candidates are promising that they will overturn Obama's executive order, because "an executive order can be rescinded just as easily as it was issued." But, how many here actually believe that any republican president will actually overturn this? Anyone?
Only one, Trump!
Only one will build the wall, Trump!
Only one will stop immigration and Muslim refugees, Trump!
Only one will end Political Correctness, Trump!
Only one is rich enough to tell the others to "get fucked", Trump!
Ares
5th January 2016, 11:30 AM
And now all the republican candidates are promising that they will overturn Obama's executive order, because "an executive order can be rescinded just as easily as it was issued." But, how many here actually believe that any republican president will actually overturn this? Anyone?
I'm still interested in seeing how they plan on enforcing an unenforceable executive order on the populace.
Shami-Amourae
5th January 2016, 11:30 AM
You made Obama cry, GSUS. Why aren't you giving up your guns?!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i3DSWIqHgoc
Ares
5th January 2016, 11:37 AM
You made Obama cry, GSUS. Why aren't you giving up your guns?!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i3DSWIqHgoc
Gee I don't know? Maybe because that same guy let weapons walk across the boarder into Mexico arming drug cartels where they shoot up woman, children and public officials all the time using those same weapons yet the very same dumbass never shed a tear about those people did he?
Fuck Obama
Horn
5th January 2016, 11:42 AM
and now it will be happening twice as much on the streets of Chicago by criminals fighting over the weapons themselves,
a testament to your own stupidity Obama.
Soon we all be so dirt poor as to not be able to afford weapons.
JohnQPublic
5th January 2016, 11:50 AM
Will this actually impact any gun shows in 2016? Will they just ignore this loud mouthed fascist asshole and do business as usual? Will ATF agents be carousing gun shows asking for licenses? And if they are not present, what will they do?
madfranks
5th January 2016, 12:00 PM
Will this actually impact any gun shows in 2016? Will they just ignore this loud mouthed fascist asshole and do business as usual? Will ATF agents be carousing gun shows asking for licenses? And if they are not present, what will they do?
They know it's unenforceable 100% across the board, but they will sneak in undercover agents here and there, arrest a few people and throw the book at them to scare the rest of us. And each time a honest hard working American sells a gun in violation of the EO and gets caught, the media will lapdog it as a potential terrorist who just got stopped, thanks to Obama!
Horn
5th January 2016, 12:08 PM
It only effects authorized dealers to my understanding,
the chances now sales circumvent authorized dealers and into private street sales are in the many.
The price of a street gun will go up and wars for them will escalate. He's doing his controlled part on depopulation agenda.
JohnQPublic
5th January 2016, 12:17 PM
It only effects authorized dealers to my understanding,
the chances now sales circumvent authorized dealers and into private street sales are in the many.
The price of a street gun will go up and wars for them will escalate. He's doing his controlled part on depopulation agenda.
Street guns are usually untraceable. This effects dealers who legally purchased serialized guns from manufacturers, no? Maybe this will create a market for "craft" gun manufacturers, "3D printed guns", etc, as well as a use for PMs, bitcoin, etc.
madfranks
5th January 2016, 12:23 PM
It only effects authorized dealers to my understanding,
the chances now sales circumvent authorized dealers and into private street sales are in the many.
The price of a street gun will go up and wars for them will escalate. He's doing his controlled part on depopulation agenda.
My understanding is he's re-defining it, so the average Joe who goes to a gun show and sells a gun to another average Joe is now "in the business" of selling guns and is required to be a licensed & authorized dealer.
Horn
5th January 2016, 12:50 PM
My understanding is he's re-defining it, so the average Joe who goes to a gun show and sells a gun to another average Joe is now "in the business" of selling guns and is required to be a licensed & authorized dealer.
Was referring to your reference of private gun sales, or hard working americans. Yes, it forces everyone who makes a living that way into authorized or less publicized forms.
Cross state online and gun shows will go up in flames for them (not that I think there were too many to begin with) or private sales were already to authorized gun dealers or middlemen. Everything brought back down to local classifieds or private street sales. Where prices will rise and battles rage.
Background checks at gun shows will just kill gun shows, online only with background check dealers, not dangerous street sales those will triple.
brosil
5th January 2016, 01:08 PM
I would never sell anyone a firearm. I'll just trade them for useless industrial metal or maybe some barbaric relics.
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5th January 2016, 01:56 PM
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5th January 2016, 02:13 PM
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5th January 2016, 03:27 PM
Obama, NRA on collision course
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The National Rifle Association (NRA) is set to mobilize against President Obama’s plan to tighten gun control via executive authority, setting the stage for a new battle between the administration and what may be Washington’s most powerful lobbying group.
The NRA, which defeated similar legislative efforts to expand background checks on gun sales three years ago, is publicly opposing the president’s latest push for gun reform and is widely expected to challenge the executive orders in court.
“President Obama failed to pass his anti-gun agenda though Congress because the majority of Americans oppose more gun-control,” NRA spokeswoman Jennifer Baker told Fox News in a statement. “Now he is doing what he always does when he doesn’t get his way, which is defy the will of the people and issue an executive order.”The NRA did not respond to requests for comment on this story.
Though it has beaten back previous attempts to expand background checks on gun sales, the group must contend this time around with heightened concerns over gun violence.
The calls for reform have only grown louder following recent high-profile mass shootings in San Bernardino, Calif., Colorado Springs, Colo., and at an African-American church in Charleston, S.C.
With Congress showing no signs of a willingness to act on gun reform, Obama in October announced his intention to take executive action.
He met Monday with Attorney General Loretta Lynch to discuss the logistics of his plan. The centerpiece of the plan is guidance meant to require more gun sellers to conduct background checks.
Though gun groups are certain to attack the action on legal grounds, some experts said they believe Obama will prevail in court.
The NRA is likely to argue that Obama’s executive action on guns not only violates the spirit of the Second Amendment but is an “unreasonable interpretation” of existing gun law, said Adam Winkler, a constitutional law professor at the University of California, Los Angeles and author of “Gunfight: The Battle Over the Right to Bear Arms in America.”
“Unfortunately for the NRA, the courts are not likely to agree,” said Winkler. “There is not much the NRA can do. It’s mostly political rhetoric. They can go to court, but they won’t win.”
The gun lobby could also press for legislation that would roll back the president’s executive orders, though this approach is even less likely to succeed, he said.
While the NRA has yet to reveal its plan of attack, the group Gun Owners of America (GOA) has already threatened a lawsuit and is pushing for legislation that would defund the portion of the budget for the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives that would be used to enforce the executive orders.
“It’s all on the table for us,” said Erich Pratt, GOA’s newly minted executive director.
Gun rights groups have no shortage of experience in fighting gun control efforts.
The Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting in December 2012 ushered in the last major wave of calls from activists for universal background checks.
Under mounting pressure for congressional action, Sens. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) and Pat Toomey (R-Pa.) introduced a bipartisan bill that would have expanded background checks to gun shows and online sales.
Toomey’s support in particular gave gun control activists a glimmer of hope, given his A-rating at the time from the NRA.
The gun background check bill sped through the Senate but was narrowly defeated on the floor in April of the following year in large part due to lobbying efforts by the NRA, which spent hundreds of thousands of dollars on a campaign to stop the efforts and put lawmakers on notice that it was scoring the vote.
“Expanding background checks at gun shows will not prevent the next shooting, will not solve violent crime and will not keep our kids safe in schools,” the NRA wrote in a statement a week before the vote.
The NRA’s threat was successful; only four Republicans defied the gun lobby by voting to expand background checks, while five Democrats broke party ranks and voted against the bill.
collector
5th January 2016, 11:03 PM
How does the federal government have jurisdiction over citizens of individual states when they are engaging in local commerce with each other, involving a product that is specifically overseen as a state issue ??
palani
6th January 2016, 04:39 AM
How does the federal government have jurisdiction over citizens of individual states when they are engaging in local commerce with each other, involving a product that is specifically overseen as a state issue ??
The way the feds see it anything having to do with interstate commerce is fair game. That is why rifles and handguns older than 1899 are excluded having been deemed never engaged in commerce. Funny in a way ... as if commerce started in 1899. You can always complete your 80% lower, buy the rest of the components and assemble your own and the end result is something of your own creation. I suspect you could even take this across state lines as well since it is private property. You would probably want to create your own manufacturers statement of origin and give the item matching serial numbers.
Then the next issue is ammo 'cause likely you plan on engaging in commerce when you select the ammo for your piece. You can always create your own caliber and casings. The thing is ... avoid commerce and you can ignore the feds .... although they will likely test you on this topic.
madfranks
6th January 2016, 07:40 AM
How does the federal government have jurisdiction over citizens of individual states when they are engaging in local commerce with each other, involving a product that is specifically overseen as a state issue ??
Because they do whatever they want and f&$* the constitution.
collector
6th January 2016, 07:45 AM
Very true !
Maybe it has something to do with where it was manufactured, although this bill was about 2nd hand sales.
Tennessee comes to mind. Didn't they pass a law that says any firearm manufactured in the state, sold to a state resident would not need to go through a federal background check as it's a state matter?
I agree that this thing is totally unconstitutional but then we all know so is Obamacare and that seemed to be able to stand
palani
6th January 2016, 08:05 AM
Because they do whatever they want and f&$* the constitution.
No constitutional issues exist while the (un)civil war remains unsettled.
madfranks
6th January 2016, 09:52 AM
No constitutional issues exist while the (un)civil war remains unsettled.Or maybe they're all just a bunch of assholes for all the difference it makes to us.
mick silver
6th January 2016, 10:14 AM
Real Reason for Gun Control
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Dominant Social Theme: Once we get guns out of the hands of the people we can worry about knives ... and fists.
Free-Market Analysis: The story is all over the news. More gun control. This time, Barack Obama is initiating it via executive orders.
Let's examine reasons this argument in the US over gun control is continually evolving amidst a good deal of vitriol and media noise. Then let's suggests some other reasons why this may be taking place.
One of the most controversial measures is Obama's idea that the act of selling even a single gun effectively makes you a gun dealer and subject to federal registration.
We're not quite sure the executive office can promulgate directives for individuals. Surely there are questions about all of it, beginning with the following statement:
A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.
Here is Merriam Webster's definition of "infringe."
To wrongly limit or restrict (something, such as another person's rights)
In 2008 the Supreme Court declared that the right to carry a gun was a personal right. (One wonders what took them so long given that literature surrounding the development of the Second Amendment is apparently fairly clear.)
But the Court also said the following: "Like most rights, the right secured by the Second Amendment is not unlimited." In other words, the government could impose "reasonable regulation."
A normal person looking at the Second Amendment would probably conclude that it means what is says – that government cannot stop people from buying, selling, owning and using weapons.
But in introducing the caveat "reasonable regulation," the Court probably left the argument as muddy as before.
And Obama, late in his second term, is not one to miss an opportunity. Here's more from the Politico article:
President Barack Obama wept openly Tuesday as he delivered a forceful defense of new executive actions on gun violence, a set of modest proposals to tighten loopholes that likely face quick legal challenges and could be vulnerable to reversal by a Republican White House. The president ran through a list of mass shootings that have happened during his time in office, and teared up as he recalled the schoolchildren gunned down in Newtown, Connecticut in 2012.
... Obama brushed off criticism that he did not respect the Second Amendment, citing his past as a constitutional law professor. "No matter how many times people try to twist my words around, I taught constitutional law, I know a little bit about this. I get it," he said. "But I also believe that we can find ways to reduce gun violence consistent with the Second Amendment."
How is "reasonable regulation" consistent with "rights shall not be infringed." Regulation ALWAYS infringes on rights. Here is the definition of "regulation" from Merriam Webster:
An official rule or law that says how something should be done.
One finally realizes that "laws" and "regulations" are merely talking points until powerful social facilities mandate them. And in realizing this, one must accept that these facilities are "right" because they are powerful. In other words, though it is somehow fashionable to maintain that Western nation-states are "societies of laws," the question that lingers is "who provides them with power?"
Other questions that are being increasingly raised in the 21st century include those that have to do with the legitimacy of the Constitution itself: Why is it, for instance, that untold hundreds of millions are bound to the legalisms of a 250-year-old piece of parchment?
The larger argument in modern times has become so debased that we no longer discuss whether rights should be restricted in advance of criminal actions. In other words, if one does something wrong, one ought to be punished, presumably, by the innocent parties themselves or by the larger community on which the deed has had an impact.
But gun control, like so many other matters, has devolved into an argument over who MIGHT use a gun in malicious ways. As it is impossible to determine who MIGHT do something in advance of the occurrences, the issue is bound to remain contentious like so many others.
One could argue, and increasingly in this Internet era (http://www.thedailybell.com/definitions/params/id/2195/) people are, that Western jurisprudence long ago took a wrong turn. The legal and legislative system would be a good deal simpler and more effective if it restricted itself to actions actually taken.
There are many moral and constitutional arguments that militate against gun grabbing. But the argument, as we have seen, involves power (who has it and who can wield it) as much as it involves logic, or even more so.
One can even argue that those behind the constitutional facilities of the US government are happy to see the argument continually raised and even expanded.
At the end of the Politico article there are some very lucid feedbacks that point out Obama's executive orders are both mild and easily reversible given that they are executive, not legislative ones.
Even the Politico article itself acknowledges that, stating, "Likewise, the actions rolled out on Tuesday are not expected to have a huge impact."
The National Rifle Association and others reacted to Obama's announcement by claiming that he was acting to deflect attention from the administration's lack of success in creating a cogent national plan to defeat "terror" domestically as well as abroad.
In fact, the article informs us that the NRA is running ads nationwide that warn of "a government that would disarm us during the age of terror."
And yet another cogent Politico feedback contains the following insight:
There are over 300 million handguns in the hands of the population already, does he think this will make a difference? All it will do is to explode sales once again, as every time he opens his mouth about guns, millions more are sold and so is ammunition. He has become the greates weapons salesman in the USA. [sic]
The language used in the Second Amendment seems fairly clear (but then again, we're not lawyers). Obviously, there are groups that want gun grabbing to continue and to expand regardless of the language of the US founding document.
Additionally, Obama's announcement seems fairly mild when it comes to gun grabbing. And unless this administration or another is prepared to CONFISCATE guns, the reason to put forward more gun control legislation seems dubious at best. There are plenty of guns around.
One can venture to propose, therefore, that the real reason for US gun control is to keep the proverbial "pot boiling." With so many legitimate issues to deal with and discuss, the national conversation has once more degenerated into a vicious, futile argument over who is going to remove what from whom.
Conclusion: Beware, the dysfunction of the US legislative system is getting worse. An even more controversial observation: It often seems as if it is planned that way.
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mick silver
6th January 2016, 10:25 AM
Obama Neglects Constitution by Avoiding Congress on Gun Control Measures© REUTERS/ Kevin Lamarque
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Obama issued executive orders on Tuesday that are intended to expand background checks for some gun purchases and toughen enforcement of existing laws regulating firearms.
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WASHINGTON (Sputnik) – President Barack Obama continues to ignore the US Constitution by avoiding lawmakers to implement gun control measures, US House Representative Billy Long said in a press release on Wednesday.“After 7 years, it's certainly not a surprise that President Obama continues to treat the Constitution and the legislative powers it grants Congress as mere suggestions that he doesn’t need to follow,” Long stated. “As a former law professor he knows it's not his prerogative to change the law to bypass Congress and the will of the American people."
Obama has unsuccessfully sought more sweeping gun-control measures from Congress, especially after a 2012 massacre of school children in the US state of Connecticut.
Opponents typically cite the Second Amendment of the US Constitution, which gives private individuals the right to own guns.
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6th January 2016, 10:26 AM
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President Barack Obama’s executive actions on gun control accomplish nothing new since his proposals are for the most part entrenched in US law, GeorgiaCarry.org Executive Director Jerry Henry told Sputnik on Tuesday.
WASHINGTON (Sputnik) — Earlier on Tuesday, Obama unveiled measures that will require individuals involved in trading firearms to obtain special licenses and carry out background checks of their customers. The US government would treat failure to comply by firearms salespeople as a criminal matter.
"The things he [Obama] proposed today are by and large, already law in place," Henry said.
Obama also pledged to increase funding for treating mental health, as well as support research on gun safety technology. The president underscored that the measures will not violate US citizens’ constitutional right to bear and keep arms, but many are skeptical.
Henry explained that firearms must be bought from a US federally licensed dealer regardless of where they are sold.
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Even if a gun is sent to someone’s doorstep, Henry added, a background check will need to be completed upon that buyer receiving their weapon.
On Tuesday, advocacy group Coalition to Stop Gun Violence Communications Director Ladd Everitt told Sputnik that Obama’s gun control measures will have an impact on US gun violence, so long as there is aggressive enforcement.
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Horn
6th January 2016, 10:48 AM
"If it is at a gun show, on line sales, flea market or even in his personal home, he/she must run a background check or face federal criminal penalties."
Someone stretching it there, thought it were just requiring online or gun show to be done thru a middleman dealer?
If true, they are saying you can only purchase thru a licensed dealer, the buyer would also be criminal when purchasing elsewhere.
If so its a huge transgression, there will be blood in the streets from criminals trying to obtain elsewhere. A huge black market for firearms will develop in the U.S. with all the weapons contained in it.
madfranks
6th January 2016, 12:04 PM
Someone stretching it there, thought it were just requiring online or gun show to be done thru a middleman dealer?
If true, they are saying you can only purchase thru a licensed dealer, the buyer would also be criminal when purchasing elsewhere.
If so its a huge transgression, there will be blood in the streets from criminals trying to obtain elsewhere. A huge black market for firearms will develop in the U.S. with all the weapons contained in it.
Mark my words though, the undercover agents trying to get someone to sell them a gun off the books will not be prosecuted.
midnight rambler
6th January 2016, 12:05 PM
Someone stretching it there, thought it were just requiring online or gun show to be done thru a middleman dealer?
If true, they are saying you can only purchase thru a licensed dealer, the buyer would also be criminal when purchasing elsewhere.
If so its a huge transgression, there will be blood in the streets from criminals trying to obtain elsewhere. A huge black market for firearms will develop in the U.S. with all the weapons contained in it.
Yeah, making drugs illegal has been an extraordinary success.
Horn
6th January 2016, 12:35 PM
Is this true or not? Cause I'm sure there's tons of enthusiasts who would be outraged.
How many of us haven't cycled through guns and sold others to friends neighbors and such?
I dont know where the guy in Mick's article says its already in place.
mick silver
6th January 2016, 09:23 PM
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During a public address from the White House on Tuesday, President Barack Obama laid out a comprehensive plan to enact tighter gun control laws in the U.S. Core to the debate of gun control is the second amendment, which the president evoked more than once during his speech.
"I believe in the second amendment, that guarantees a right to bear arms," Obama said in the televised address. "I believe that we can find ways to reduce gun violence consistent with the second amendment." He continued by reminding his audience that as a former teacher of constitutional law, he knows "a thing or two" about it. Beyond that, Obama said he believes in and is fighting for "ways to reduce gun violence consistent with the second amendment."
"We can find ways to reduce gun violence consistent with the Second Amendment." -@POTUS: http://go.wh.gov/StopGunViolence #StopGunViolence
"A majority of gun owners agree that we can respect the Second Amendment while keeping an irresponsible...few from inflicting harm" -@POTUS
Reacting to the news on Twitter, many came out in support of both Obama's statements and his approach to mention of the second amendment, among them democratic frontrunner and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.
@POTUS is right: We can protect the Second Amendment while protecting our families and communities from gun violence. And we have to.
"I believe in the Second Amendment. It's there written on paper" - Obama on #guncontrol executive action
Please actually read the second amendment before you "think" your rights are being violated! #GunControl #savealife I support @POTUS
Thank Mr.President @POTUS for your stand on #GunControl #GunSafety & #GunViolence yet understanding the #2ndAmendment -We need change.
Others reacting on Twitter, among them conservative politicians, discounted and rejected the president's statements outright.
From day one, the president has never respected the right to safe and legal gun ownership. http://spkrryan.us/1Sxzn1k #2A
Protecting the Second Amendment ' Jeb Bush https://youtu.be/ouiYXwsawAA via @YouTube Jeb Bush will PROTECT the 2nd Amendment so we can be safe!
Pres. Obama's "Executive Action On Gun Control" is a red herring and #Progressive measure toward the restriction of #SecondAmendment rights.
Obama claims he's all about the Second Amendment, then just applauded gun dealers who have stopped selling semi-automatic weapons, what?
From amnesty to gun control, I will continue to say "no" to the President's out-of-control executive fiats. #SecondAmendment
In his opening remarks, Obama mourned the sheer number of times he's had to address the nation in response to a mass shooting, evoked Gabby Gifford (http://www.biography.com/people/gabrielle-giffords-20550593) and shared that fact that each year, more than 30,000 Americans "have their lives cut short by guns," as a result of gang violence, accidents, domestic abuse or other affronts.
"Hundreds of thousands of Americans have lost brothers and sisters," Obama said on Tuesday. "Many have had to learn to live with a disability. Or learn to live without the love of their life."
"A number of those people are here today," he added. They can tell you some stories."
The president continued by acknowledging that the U.S. is not the only advanced country in the world that's suffering from mass gun violence, but said that the frequency of mass gun violence in America is higher than elsewhere.
"Somehow we've become numb to it and we start thinking this is normal," Obama said. "Instead of thinking about how to solve the problem this has become one of our most polarized partisan debates."
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Source: Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images (http://www.gettyimages.com/)Obama pointed to past presidents and lawmakers, across political parties, who have supported things like background checks, and argued that requiring background checks for firearms does not equate a dismantaling of the second amendment.
Perhaps as proof of partisanship and the complexity of the debate regarding tightening fun legislation, Obama quoted the 40th president of the U.S., Ronald Reagan, who, in 1991, expressed his support (http://www.nytimes.com/1991/03/29/opinion/why-i-m-for-the-brady-bill.html) for the Brady Bill, a piece of legislation that would have increased gun laws at the time, saying that even if the bill's passage were to reduce the level of gun violence in America minimally, "it would be well worth making it the law of the land."
Reinforcing his position on Tuesday, Obama said inaction and excuses for heightened gun violence in America were not longer tolerable.
"People are dying and the constant excuses for inaction no longer do, no longer suffice," Obama said, adding, "I reject that thinking."
From the White House, here's a summary of today's policy announcement on tightened gun control, which include a plan to develop and update gun tracking technology much like what's currently available for tracking mobile devices and tightening background check standards and regulations.
"Anybody in the business of selling firearms must get a license and conduct background checks"
mick silver
7th January 2016, 07:41 AM
Gun control is one thing, but what about bullets? by By Beth Schwartzapfel, The Marshall Project (https://www.themarshallproject.org/?utm_campaign=partners&utm_source=cnnmoney&utm_medium=referral&utm_term=cabullets#.8Wtk917PZ) @CNNMoney (https://twitter.com/intent/user?screen_name=CNNMoney) January 7, 2016: 8:19 AM ET
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Under federal and many state laws, the same people prohibited from buying guns are prohibited from buying bullets. But virtually no systems are in place to enforce that. In 46 states, anyone can walk into a store -- or click on a website -- and buy bullets, no questions asked. Earlier this week President Obama announced a series of executive actions on gun control -- a frank acknowledgment of the political impossibility of getting even the most modest gun background check bills through Congress. The idea that states could enforce background checks for those buying bullets seems far-fetched.
Not so in California. "If someone isn't allowed to possess ammunition, we should probably make sure they can't buy it," says Yashar Hedayat, a spokesman for Lt. Gov. Gavin Newsom, a Democrat, who is spearheading a new effort on ammunition purchases.
That effort, the Safety for All Act (http://safetyforall.com/), would require a background check for anyone seeking to buy bullets, using the same system as the existing one for guns. The proposed new law includes several other gun control provisions, including new regulations for ammunition dealers. The state -- plus 44 others and the federal government -- currently has no licensing or regulation for those who sell bullets.
"We're not being hyperbolic when we say that a daycare center could sell ammunition," Hedayat says.
The ballot initiative is currently being reviewed by the state's Attorney General. In the next few months the campaign will begin gathering the requisite signatures to put the initiative before voters in the fall.
Tightening gun restrictions through traditional legislative channels has been a frustrating dead end for gun-control proponents. In the years since the mass school shooting in Newtown, Conn., far more laws have been passed to loosen gun regulations than to strengthen them. But the Safety for All Act bypasses the state legislature by going directly to voters. A similar tack worked in Washington state in 2014, when a ballot initiative to close that state's gun show loophole passed with almost 60 percent of the vote.
Gun rights supporters essentially conceded that contest, contributing only $500,000 to fight the initiative in the face of at least $6 million in spending by Everytown for Gun Safety and other gun control groups. Proponents of the Safety for All Act say they are gearing up to spend more than that this time around.
The opposition is also planning a sizable, and expensive, fight in California. "Gavin Newsom seriously underestimated the fervor of opposition," says Mark Selmi, a spokesman for Michel & Associates, the law firm that represents the National Rifle Association in California. "There will be a consolidated opposition, including a large number of county sheriffs and a record voter turnout." Fundraising has already begun on Second Amendment social media accounts.
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California has some of the nation's strictest gun control laws, and the state is something of a bellwether for how far gun-control advocates can push before they are beaten back, in the courts or elsewhere. On the issue of regulating ammunition, gun-control proponents point to ordinances in Sacramento and Los Angeles that require ammunition sellers to maintain records of people who buy bullets and to make those records available to police. (Law enforcement has since begun to use the logs in investigations and prosecutions of those prohibited from owning bullets who bought them anyway.)
Gun rights advocates, meanwhile, point to a successful court challenge of a law that would have applied these provisions statewide.
A small group of gun-control advocates have, for years, been making the case that bullets are as good, if not better, a target for regulation than guns. Without bullets, they point out, a gun is a useless piece of metal. And unlike guns, bullets must continually be replaced. "If I buy a firearm, I take good care of it, it can last a lifetime," says Garen Wintemute, an emergency physician and Director of the Violence Prevention Research Program at the University of California, Davis. "The larger share of the market is in the consumables, like ammunition."
But this is a fledgling idea in a landscape where 37 states don't require background checks to purchase a handgun -- let alone a box of ammo. "In most states, we're actually starting from even further behind," says Ari Freilich of the Law Center to Prevent Gun Violence, a think tank that worked with Newsom to formulate the policy ideas in the Safety for All Act. "Before they can impose ammunition background checks, they also have to talk about firearms background checks as well."
Four states and the District of Columbia require a license to buy ammunition, and getting that license requires passing a background check. But once you have the license, "you have it until it expires," Freilich says. "There are processes to revoke the license, but generally speaking, it's hard to do that."
The proposed new system in California would require a background check at every purchase, and would draw on the database of prohibited purchasers, updated in real time, that the state already uses for gun sales.
In 2013, New York state passed the SAFE Act, a similar law that would have required ammunition buyers to pass a background check at the point of purchase. But unlike California, which has stricter rules than the federal government's and maintains its own prohibited gun buyers database, New York relies on the federal background check system (https://www.fbi.gov/about-us/cjis/nics), known as NICS. Federal officials said the Brady Act — which established the system of firearm background checks — does not allow NICS to be used for bullets. The SAFE Act is now in limbo until the state police can develop its own statewide database. "New York does face administrative hurdles in putting a new, comprehensive background check database together," Freilich says — "though I do believe political opposition has hindered the process."
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mick silver
7th January 2016, 08:16 AM
New dangers found in latest Obama gun orders'Is the groundwork being laid for branding American 'dissidents' as mentally ill?'Published: 12 hours ago
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Among the provisions of what Barack Obama calls “common sense” measures to stop “gun violence” – which critics condemn as the president’s latest unconstitutional end-runs around Congress – one controversial new rule (http://www.politico.com/story/2016/01/obama-gun-control-rule-mental-illness-217340#.jedbrnp:JE8t) empowers health-care providers to report the names of mentally ill patients to a FBI firearms background check system.
Providers will no longer need to obtain the patient’s consent before sharing such information.
Obvious problems with this measure have been cited, such as the effect of discouraging battled-scarred military veterans from seeking mental health care for fear of losing their right to possess a firearm.
But journalist David Kupelian, author of the influential new book, “The Snapping of the American Mind,” (http://superstore.wnd.com/books/The-Snapping-of-the-American-Mind?promocode=MSTORY) even questions whether Obama’s far-left administration might possibly be tempted to use this new rule to target “dissidents” – outspoken critics, conservatives, Christians, constitutionalists and the like – as mentally impaired or unstable, and, therefore, unfit for gun ownership.
“Don’t laugh,” Kupelian said. “The left – which in today’s America dominates not only government, but also psychology and the social sciences – has a proven track record throughout modern history of demonizing and pathologizing conservatism and Christianity.”
In fact, as Kupelian noted, he predicted this very sort of thing in “The Snapping of the American Mind.” (http://superstore.wnd.com/books/The-Snapping-of-the-American-Mind?promocode=MSTORY) In that recently released book, he wrote:
“Under Obama, the U.S. government has seen fit to target ‘dissidents’ in a variety of ways, from Homeland Security profiling conservatives as potential ‘extremists,’ to the IRS notoriously discriminating against tea-party groups, to the legal prosecution of Christians for declining to participate in homosexual wedding ceremonies. How big a leap might it be from these forms of persecution to ‘diagnosing’ members of the same groups as ‘mentally ill,’ ‘disordered,’ or ‘impaired?’ (That would certainly be a handy way to deny firearms ownership to such newly minted ‘mental-health risks.’)”
There is ample precedent for this, as Kupelian notes. In the Soviet Union, brave dissidents who spoke out against communism were diagnosed with invented conditions like “philosophical intoxication” and “sluggish schizophrenia” and were confined in psychiatric hospitals for “treatment.”
Even today in America, conservatives are constantly slammed with labels that imply some sort of mental disorder. Kupelian writes in his book:
“Consider: Those who complain their once-great country is being overrun with illegal immigrants are branded ‘xenophobic,’ a pathologizing label implying one has a phobia (a mental disorder). Opponents of radically redefining marriage are ‘homophobic,’ a made-up pathologizing label. Those objecting to Islamist subversion of the United States are ‘Islamophobic,’ another made-up pathologizing label. Same with ‘biphobia,’ for people who don’t like to be around bisexuals, and ‘transphobia,’ for people uncomfortable around transgendered people.
“Those questioning ‘catastrophic man-caused global warming’ are ‘climate-change deniers,’ an epithet designed to convey not merely pathological denial, but moral equivalence to ‘Holocaust deniers’ – in other words, dangerous derangement.”
Clearly, not everyone is worried about government abuse of the mental health system. As Politico reported: (http://www.politico.com/story/2016/01/obama-gun-control-rule-mental-illness-217340#.jedbrnp:JE8t)
“Paul Gionfriddo, chief executive of the mental health rights advocate Mental Health America, said he believes the White House strikes the right balance between the need to have this information shared with the FBI’s background check system and protecting individuals’ privacy.
“Current law allows HIPAA exclusions for law enforcement purposes, but it’s a broad exclusion.
“‘That could be a barn door opened quite wide if an administration really wanted to open it, and they didn’t,’ Gionfriddo said.”
Kupelian scoffed at what he sees as Gionfriddo’s naiveté.
“Once the ‘barn door’ is opened even a little, what will stop it from being opened all the way in the future?” Kupelian asked. “Nothing, as history proves.”
Veteran news and opinion writer Cheryl Chumley, like Kupelian, is deeply uncomfortable with the new rule on mental health and gun control.
“This is a wolf in sheep’s disguise,” said Chumley, author of “Police State USA.” (http://superstore.wnd.com/Police-State-USA-How-Orwells-Nightmare-is-Becoming-our-Reality-Autographed-Hardcover?promocode=MSTORY) “Republicans have been saying for years the problem with gun-related violence has nothing to do with the guns themselves – as guns are inanimate objects and cannot operate absent a shooter. But rather, the problem of gun-related violence is one of mental health. And on that, Obama’s turned a blind eye and deaf ear, preferring instead to make emotion-filled pleas on the heels of gun-related acts of violence for more restrictive curbs to the Second Amendment.
“But those have failed. So, in the face of failure upon failure of pressing more comprehensive gun controls through Congress, now comes Obama with executive orders to curb the Second Amendment and – surprise, surprise – his administration is simultaneously pressing for more government oversight of the mental health sector, to make sure the mentally ill don’t have easy access to guns. Are we really supposed to applaud this? Are we that stupid?”
Chumley, whose forthcoming book is titled “The Devil in DC,” believes this new rule is actually a clever political ploy. Many Republicans and gun groups will oppose it, and Obama will accuse them of not wanting any gun regulations, even those dealing with mental health.
“The problem with this rule is the same as the problem with Obama’s other idea of denying guns to those who are on federal no-fly lists: It puts a government authority (because Obamacare has made health care governmental, not private) in charge of deciding which names make the list,” she argued.
“The Second Amendment doesn’t allow for that, pure and simple. The American people ought to react with rapid backlash to this proposed rule, and flood the comment period with messages that demand its quick death.”
Marc Fitch, on the other hand, has a different perspective. The author of “Shmexperts: How Ideology and Power Politics are Disguised as Science” (http://superstore.wnd.com/books/New-Arrivals/Shmexperts-How-Ideology-and-Power-Politics-are-Disguised-as-Science-Hardcover?promocode=MSTORY) has worked in the mental health field for seven years and sees another problem with the new rule.
“What I find most interesting is that the HIPAA laws are going to be suspended for the mentally ill for law enforcement, but not for families,” Fitch told WND. “As it currently stands, we can’t tell a patient’s family anything about them unless they sign a waiver saying we can talk with their family or caregiver. This can be nearly impossible with psychotic, paranoid, manic and delusional patients. In effect, we are saying that the FBI can have access to find out more about a patient’s condition than their own family and loved ones.”
The answer, according to Fitch, is to amend HIPAA so that families, not the government, have greater access to information about their mentally ill loved ones.
Fitch also questions whether the new rule will actually be used against patients with only mild symptoms. If it’s not, then the rule doesn’t add anything to current law, he reasoned.
“If it is necessary that the patient be reported to the FBI, then they should probably be involuntarily committed to an inpatient unit, which would automatically prevent them from obtaining a firearm under current law,” he said.
What’s more, Fitch said increased reporting of mentally ill patients to the background check database would not do much to prevent mass shootings because many mentally ill mass shooters are experiencing a break for the first time. So they may have broken no laws until their commission of the mass shooting, and current law prohibits their families from forcing them into treatment unless they break a law.
“If you wanted to get people help and treatment early, families should be empowered to force the patient to get help and be able to monitor their progress as they receive treatment,” Fitch argued. “Many of these shooters had never been involuntarily committed or committed any crime before their rampage, so increased reporting of involuntary commitment wouldn’t change much in those situations.”
The way Fitch sees it, the new rule does not give doctors any powers outside their normal duties as psychiatrists. What it does do is open privacy laws to the federal government when the families of mentally ill patients are the ones who could truly make a difference.
“If you want to improve the mental health system and prevent the ill from obtaining firearms, we have to make the ability for families to get help for their loved one, whether that individual wants it or not,” Fitch declared. “Families are ground zero for the mental health system; the government is the last in a long line of possible preventions, but sees itself as more important and consequential to the care of both the mentally ill and society – that is a mistake.”
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7th January 2016, 08:19 AM
Soros group: Americans don't really use guns for self-defenseBut NRA responds: 'This so-called study is rubbish'Published: 06/19/2015 at 8:49 PMimage: http://www.wnd.com/files/2012/09/Aaron-Klein_avatar.jpg
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http://www.wnd.com/files/2014/09/gun_fire.jpgA George Soros-financed anti-gun advocacy group is implying Americans don’t need weapons, citing its own statistics purportedly showing gun owners rarely actually use their firearms for self-defense.
Instead, the Violence Policy Center contends, guns are used far more in criminal gun homicides.
“In 2012, for every justifiable homicide in the United States involving a gun, guns were used in 32 criminal homicides,” states the study, (http://www.vpc.org/studies/justifiable15.pdf) released on Wednesday.
The report used FBI data to conclude that in 2012, across the nation there were 259 “justifiable homicides,” meaning homicide for self-defense, while that same year saw 8,342 criminal gun homicides.
See the multitude of Second Amendment resources at the WND Superstore, from “The Future of the Gun” and “Hands Off My Gun” to “The Heller Case” and “Armed Response.” (http://superstore.wnd.com/Search?search=gun)
The Violence Policy Center, however, did not cite any data on how many crimes were prevented that year by the use of firearms.
“We hope legislators in every state will stop believing the self-defense myth and look at the facts,” Julia Wyman, executive director of States United to Prevent Gun Violence, told The Hill in response to the study. “Guns do not make our families or communities safer.”
However, the National Rifle Association (NRA) releasing a statement questioning the data.
“This ‘so-called’ study, which was paid for and promoted by gun control advocates is rubbish,” NRA spokeswoman Jennifer Baker stated. “VPC fails to note that only a fraction of defensive firearm homicides are reported to the FBI and the study doesn’t account for the many crimes deterred by a firearm that do not result in a homicide. Recent polling shows that most Americans believe exercising their constitutional right to self-protection makes them safer and this is just another transparent attempt to push gun control.”
The Violence Policy Center, or VPC, is heavily funded by Soros’ Open Society Institute. The Open Society also funded numerous individual VPC initiatives and studies.
The VPC is also funded by the Joyce Foundation, an anti-gun advocacy group.
President Obama served on the Joyce Foundation’s board from July 1994 until December 2002.
While funding numerous other anti-gun groups, Soros is also an investor in GEO Group Inc., a private firm that operates 59 U.S. prison facilities, including maximum, medium and minimum security prisons and immigration detention centers under contract with the U.S. government.
WND previously found (http://www.wnd.com/2014/04/bill-gates-soros-profit-from-jailing-illegals/) that Soros purchased 105,354 shares of GEO Group Inc. between Dec. 31, 2007, and March 31, 2008.
With research by Brenda J. Elliott.
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mick silver
7th January 2016, 08:20 AM
The Violence Policy Center, or VPC, is heavily funded by Soros’ Open Society Institute. The Open Society also funded numerous individual VPC initiatives and studies.
The VPC is also funded by the Joyce Foundation, an anti-gun advocacy group.
President Obama served on the Joyce Foundation’s board from July 1994 until December 2002.
While funding numerous other anti-gun groups, Soros is also an investor in GEO Group Inc., a private firm that operates 59 U.S. prison facilities, including maximum, medium and minimum security prisons and immigration detention centers under contract with the U.S. government.
WND previously found (http://www.wnd.com/2014/04/bill-gates-soros-profit-from-jailing-illegals/) that Soros purchased 105,354 shares of GEO Group Inc. between Dec. 31, 2007, and March 31, 2008.
mick silver
7th January 2016, 12:19 PM
Smith & Wesson stocks peak, gun sales rise amid Obama’s actions on firearms Published time: 6 Jan, 2016 02:11
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Shares in gun maker Smith & Wesson reached their highest value ever amid President Obama’s executive action on arms control. The company expects greater sales in 2016, as the rush for its guns has been “stronger than originally anticipated.”
One of America’s largest gun-makers, the firearms manufacturer’s stock price soared by over 11.08 percent and reached $25.86, the highest the company has ever traded on Nasdaq since 1999. Earlier in the day it skyrocketed to $26.54, also setting a record for intraday value.
Shares peaked during President Obama’s speech at the White House, as he officially announced plans to extend background checks for gun buyers and impose more restrictions on arms sellers.
Smith & Wesson’s shares have been shooting up for the second day in row.
The rise in the company’s shares followed its update on revenue and positive sales expectations for the final fiscal quarter, while also coinciding with Obama’s tighter gun restrictions.
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On Monday, Smith & Wesson put its revenue for the quarter ending January 31 as high as $180 million, which is 16 percent higher than the forecast given in December. Previously, the company had expected sales between $150 million and $155 million. Now, for the fiscal year ending April 30, the company expects net sales to reach between $650 million and $660 million, up from the $625 million it forecasted before.
“The company indicated that the sell-through rate of its products at distribution has been stronger than originally anticipated, resulting in reduced distributor inventories of its firearms,” the company said in a press release announcing its quarterly results on Monday.
Simply stated, this means that Americans are buying guns faster than distributers can restock store shelves.
Stock for another gun manufacturer, Sturm Ruger, also rose nearly 7 percent, reaching $66.26 at its peak intraday value.
Calls for stricter gun control intensified after the San Bernardino shooting that left 14 people dead and 22 wounded.
mick silver
7th January 2016, 02:34 PM
Having a gun in your home is 'like bringing a time bomb into your house'
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In announcing (http://www.businessinsider.com/obama-gun-control-speech-cries-tear-2016-1) his new executive actions on gun control on Tuesday, US President Barack Obama made the frequency of suicide via firearms a sticking point in his argument for why his initiatives are necessary. "We have tens of thousands of people every single year who are killed by guns," he said. "We have suicides that are committed by firearms at a rate that far exceeds other countries."
As of 2012, the US had the 50th highest suicide rate per 100,000 citizens in the world, according to the World Health Organization (http://apps.who.int/gho/data/node.main.MHSUICIDE?lang=en). When compared to fellow advanced countries, the US was in the top 10 worldwide.
Breaking down the suicide rates by state, there is a positive correlation between states with stronger gun-control laws and a lower suicide rate. Of course, this relationship does not prove (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Correlation_does_not_imply_causation) that stronger gun control prevents or even reduces suicides, but it does show that the two are linked in a potentially important way.
'Gun friendly' states, gun ownership, and suicideIn the states ranked in the top 25 most friendly for gun owners in 2015 by Guns & Ammo Magazine (http://www.gunsandammo.com/network-topics/culture-politics-network/best-states-for-gun-owners-2015/), the suicide rate per 100,000 people was nearly 16. That number was closer to 13.5 in the 25 least gun-friendly states from the same list, according to 2014 data from the (https://www.afsp.org/content/download/13514/228430/file/Suicide%202015%20Facts%20and%20Figures.pdf)America n Foundation for Suicide Prevention (https://www.afsp.org/content/download/13514/228430/file/Suicide%202015%20Facts%20and%20Figures.pdf) (AFSP). In the 12 states deemed the least gun-friendly, that number falls to 11 per 100,000.
More than 50% of suicides are carried out with guns, according to the AFSP. The next most common method is suffocation, which accounts for about 25% of suicides.
There also appears to be a link between state rates of gun ownership and suicide.
Wyoming, Montana, and Alaska — the states with the three highest gun-ownership rates — have the three highest suicide rates in the country, according to a 2012 study (http://www.annualreviews.org/doi/abs/10.1146/annurev-publhealth-031811-124636?journalCode=publhealth&) by researchers at the Harvard School of Public Health. And those three states are also among the top 11 most gun-friendly, as ranked by Guns & Ammo.
"The literature suggests that having a gun in your home to protect your family is like bringing a time bomb into your house," Dr. Mark Rosenberg, an epidemiologist who helped establish the CDC's National Center for Injury Prevention and Control, told The New York Times in 2013 (http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/14/us/to-lower-suicide-rates-new-focus-turns-to-guns.html). "Instead of protecting you, it's more likely to blow up."
In a 2006 effort to curb suicide attempts among soldiers, the Israeli Defense Force changed a policy that allowed soldiers to take their weapons home with them on weekends. In the following two years, the number of soldiers killing themselves on the weekend dropped 70%, according to a 2010 study (https://www.researchgate.net/publication/47632945_Decrease_in_Suicide_Rates_After_a_Change_ of_Policy_Reducing_Access_to_Firearms_in_Adolescen ts_A_Naturalistic_Epidemiological_Study), and overall suicide rates among soldiers dropped 40%.
"These data clearly emphasize the effectiveness of decreasing access to firearms on suicide prevention; the 40% decrease in rates of suicide is an achievement unparalleled by any other means of suicide prevention," the study said.
Also, researchers did not see an uptick in suicides by other means, such as suffocation or overdose, contrary to claims some people have made (http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/14/us/to-lower-suicide-rates-new-focus-turns-to-guns.html) that this would happen if guns were unavailable.
Veterans make up more than 22% of all suicides in the US, according to the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention (https://www.afsp.org/content/download/13514/228430/file/Suicide%202015%20Facts%20and%20Figures.pdf), while veterans and active military members make up just north of 7% of the overall population, according to FiveThirtyEight.com (http://fivethirtyeight.com/datalab/what-percentage-of-americans-have-served-in-the-military/).
"The results of this study indicate that decreasing access to firearms can significantly decrease rates of suicide among adolescents, a finding that should encourage policy makers to decrease access to firearms," the study said.
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'Gun friendly' states, gun ownership, and murderThere is also a correlation between gun ownership, gun friendliness, and murder (https://www.fbi.gov/about-us/cjis/ucr/crime-in-the-u.s/2014/crime-in-the-u.s.-2014/tables/table-4), although it is not quite as strong as it is between gun ownership, gun friendliness, and suicide.
In the top 25 most gun-friendly states, the murder rate per 100,000 people in 2014 was 4.76, whereas it was 3.36 in the 25 most restrictive states. But the state with the lowest murder rate (New Hampshire) actually has the 10th most lenient gun laws in the nation. Also, the second most restrictive state for guns (New Jersey) has a significantly higher murder rate than the state that's the second most lenient (Vermont).
The states with the four highest murder rates do fall inside the top 25 best states for gun owners, as do 10 of the top 12.
And roughly 70% of murders involve a firearm, according to 2011 data from the National Institute of Justice (http://www.nij.gov/topics/crime/gun-violence/pages/welcome.aspx).
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Whether its via suicide, murder, or accidental firing, guns kill roughly 89 Americans each day and nearly 34,000 each year, according to estimates from the CDC (http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/nvsr/nvsr64/nvsr64_02.pdf).
"We can prevent a lot of these deaths and maimings," Norah Vawter, who was shot in 1984 by a stranger, wrote in The Washington Post blog "Post Everything" on Thursday (https://www.washingtonpost.com/posteverything/wp/2016/01/07/this-is-what-its-like-to-be-a-victim-of-everyday-gun-violence/). Her mother was shot by the stranger as well, and she died years later due to her injuries. "We can prevent pain and heartache. We just have to try."
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mick silver
8th January 2016, 11:47 AM
Justin Amash: Let’s Close Loophole That Lets U.S. Sell Guns to Syrian Rebels
Libertarian Congressman responds to President Obama's executive order on guns.
By Robby Soave January 07, 2016 "Information Clearing House (http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/)" - "Reason (https://reason.com/blog/2016/01/05/justin-amash-lets-close-loophole-that-le)"- While numerous skeptics (https://reason.com/blog/2016/01/05/administration-officials-say-its-impossi) of the idea that stronger gun control would meaningfully curb mass shootings or reduce murders have assailed President Obama's proposed executive action on guns as foolhardy, Rep. Justin Amash formulated a different criticism of the plan. He tweeted:
So, the guy who sells guns from our government to radical Syrian rebels lectures law-abiding Americans about selling guns to each other.
— Justin Amash (@justinamash) January 5, 2016 (https://twitter.com/justinamash/status/684418763358367745) Perhaps an overlooked loophole in the gun debate is the one that permits the federal government to sell weapons to Syrian rebels without an up-to-date declaration of war against the opposing forces of ISIS and Bashar al-Assad.
As for violence in the U.S., Amash wrote (https://twitter.com/justinamash/status/684456889090990084) that the government should focus on "conditions that lead to violence: mental health issues, lack of economic opportunity, unfair criminal justice system," rather than gun control.
Read Brian Doherty's February 2016 cover story on gun control and statistics here (https://reason.com/archives/2016/01/05/you-know-less-than-you-think-a).
Robby Soave is a staff editor at Reason.com.
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mick silver
8th January 2016, 12:13 PM
January 8, 2016 The Exultation of Lethal Violence in American Culture (http://www.counterpunch.org/2016/01/08/the-exultation-of-lethal-violence-in-american-culture/)
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The issue of gun control in America has exposed the inherent weaknesses of US democracy and the extent to which the Old Testament vies with the nation’s constitution for supremacy when it comes to the law.
The sight of President Obama shedding tears at his recent press conference, where he announced he was taking executive action, bypassing Congress, in order to tighten gun control, was a seminal moment in his presidency. The tears were genuine, his frustration over the lack of action on this particular issue is authentic, and the weaknesses of the US political system and constitution are inarguable when it comes to the ability of any administration to govern effectively.
When it comes to gun ownership the United States is a victim of the myths that sustain it and have corrupted its society and body politic. In this regard the Second Amendment to the nation’s constitution, mandating gun ownership as a right, has along with the First Amendment upholding the right of free speech, assumed the status of one of the Ten Commandments; considered inviolable and eternally sacrosanct, a guarantor of the freedom of the American people.
Given the exalted status of the Second Amendment and the right to bear arms, let us take a moment to examine it in detail. Its actual wording is: “A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.”
The debate that has ensued ever since it was ratified and enshrined in law in 1791 is over whether it refers to the collective right to bear arms or the individual right to bear arms – in other words, was it designed in order to sanction the right of state militias to bear arms in order to protect and uphold state’s rights or was it, as commonly believed today, designed to sanction the right of individuals to bear arms in order to protect themselves and their property?
Significantly, the wording of the amendment is sufficiently ambiguous to be interpreted as both. However what cannot be denied is the lunacy of treating an amendment that was written in 1791 as equally relevant today as it was then. The vast changes in US society that have taken place, its urbanization, and the overall development of the country between then and now refutes utterly the idea that the Second Amendment should remain as sacrosanct as its adherents argue it should. Unlike the First Amendment the Second Amendment was not created as an end in itself, but rather as a means to an end – i.e. in order to protect rights, such as the right to free speech, from being denied or interfered with by those in power.
Here we come to another major societal problem that pervades in the so-called land of the free – the conspiratorial mistrust of Washington and central government. Combined with the frontier mindset of many who consider owning deadly assault weapons as being tantamount to liberty, and combined with an unhealthy attachment to God as an entity of divine retribution and punishment instead of love and goodwill, this conspiratorial disdain for the government and its institutions has served to undermine social cohesion and the ability of the government to govern effectively. Checks and balances, when taken too far, lead to the kind of political paralysis that has been a feature of Obama’s two terms in office.
But when it comes to Obama’s focus on gun violence hypocrisy reigns. For almost unremarked by the President has been the sheer number of unarmed men and women who’ve been gunned down by police officers in recent years. A disproportionate number of those gunned down by cops have been black people – 336 according to the US website Mapping Police Violence, with 101 of those victims clearly identified as unarmed at the time. The most shocking stat is that only eight of the police officers involved have faced any criminal charges.
Up to now Obama has shed no public tears for the victims of police violence, whether black, Hispanic, white, or any other. Moreover, when others have championed the right of the victims of police violence to justice, they have come under sustained attacked from the right wing media establishment and the powerful police unions. Consider how the filmmaker Quentin Tarantino was threatened with a nationwide boycott of his movies by police unions across the States after he attended a Black Lives Matter march and rally in New York towards the end of last year.
The exaltation of lethal violence that suffuses American culture adds another dimension to the crisis. The nation’s view of itself as a muscular and invincible global power, which brooks no dissent or resistance to its writ, is reflected in society at home. Its legal system, under which over half the entire world’s prison population is incarcerated, is notoriously harsh, especially when it comes to the poor: a disproportionate number of whom, as with the victims of police violence, happen to be black.
We are talking a society and a nation that is in crisis, polarized between the super rich and everybody else, and also along racial lines. Seen in this light, Obama’s were not only for the victims of gun crime in America but America itself.
In the United States in 2016 injustice not freedom reigns.
John Wightis the author of a politically incorrect and irreverent Hollywood memoir –Dreams That Die (http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/184694712X/counterpunchmaga)– published by Zero Books. He’s also written five novels, which are available as Kindle eBooks. You can follow him on Twitter at @JohnWight1
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mick silver
8th January 2016, 12:34 PM
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A majority of Americans oppose President Obama's use of executive powers to enact new gun control initiatives — and they don't believe the controversial move will reduce the number of mass killings that have rocked the nation in recent months,
According to the poll of 1,000 likely U.S. voters, 58 percent say the government should only do what the president and Congress agree on in gun control matters.
Only 34 percent of those surveyed believe the commander-in-chief should take action alone if Congress does not approve the initiatives he has proposed.
Rasmussen also found only 21 percent believe Obama's executive order, which extends federal government oversight of gun sales, will reduce the number of mass shootings. Another 59 percent disagree, and 20 percent said they are not sure.
Those polled were quizzed on the need for additional gun control — and the results were sharply divided. Some 45 percent believe the United States needs stricter gun control laws, but 50 percent disagree.
In past surveys, voters tended to oppose further gun control laws — except during the chaotic periods following mass killings like the ones at Virginia Tech and Sandy Hook Elementary School in Connecticut.
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The new poll also found 79 percent of voters believe it is more important for Congress and the president to work together to achieve what's best for the country rather than to stand for what they believe in.
But they are also far more likely to blame Congress than the president for preventing that from happening.
Women and those under 40 continue to favor additional gun control more than men and older voters do. But most women and younger voters still oppose the president going it alone on gun control, Rasmussen found.
Additionally, 73 percent of Democrats believe the nation needs stricter gun control, but 76 percent of Republicans and 54% of voters not affiliated with either major party disagree.
In other findings:
83 percent of GOP voters and 59 percent of unaffiliated voters believe the government should only do what the president and Congress agree on when it comes to gun control.
Democrats by a 56 percent to 34 percent margin believe the president should take action alone on gun control if Congress does not approve the initiatives he has proposed.
65 percent of voters who favor stricter gun control say the president should take action on his own if necessary.
87 percent of voters who oppose additional gun control think the government should only do what the president and Congress agree on.
The poll's margin of sampling error is +/- 3 percentage points with a 95 percent level of confidence.
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Texas Governor Introduces Groundbreaking Plan to Override Obama’s TyrannyOutspoken governor calls for Constitutional Convention to restore Rule of Law, take back states' rights Adan Salazar | Infowars.com - January 8, 2016 5 Comments (http://www.infowars.com/texas-governor-introduces-groundbreaking-plan-to-override-obamas-tyranny/#disqus_thread)
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Texas Governor Greg Abbott made good on his promise to challenge President Obama’s gun control initiatives Friday, calling for a Constitutional Convention of US states to create several new amendments aimed at reasserting states’ rights.
Among nine proposed amendments, “The Texas Plan” aims to prohibit Congress from regulating activity that occurs wholly within one state. Another amendment requires Congress to balance its budget, and another allows a two-thirds majority of states to override a US Supreme Court decision.
“Congress is unable to control itself. So the people must impose control,” Governor Abbott said during a speech before the Texas Public Policy Foundation.
Abbott explained that federal lawmakers were out of step with the “Constitutional principles” our Founders put in place, and urged other states to join Texas in helping to “fix the cracks in our Constitution.”
“The increasingly frequent departures from Constitutional principles are destroying the Rule of Law foundation on which this country was built,” Abbott said (http://gov.texas.gov/news/press-release/21829?utm_medium=social&utm_source=t.co&utm_campaign=20160108_txgov-p-restoringtheruleoflaw_01082016_twitter&utm_content=txgov), specifically citing President Obama’s recent executive authorizations infringing on the Second Amendment.
“We are succumbing to the caprice of man that our Founders fought to escape. The cure to these problems will not come from Washington D.C. Instead, the states must lead the way. To do that I am adding another item to the agenda next session. I want legislation authorizing Texas to join other states in calling for a Convention of States to fix the cracks in our Constitution.”
Abbott’s declaration and 92-page proposal (http://gov.texas.gov/files/press-office/Restoring_The_Rule_Of_Law_01082016.pdf) follows an appearance by the president in a televised town hall-style meeting hosted by CNN, in which the Commander-in-Chief attempted to convince Americans that executive orders infringing on the Second Amendment were a good idea.
Responding to the announcement, Abbott – a strong advocate for gun rights – promised, “Texas will take every action to protect the Second Amendment rights of law-abiding citizens.”
“The Bill of Rights was added as a specific safeguard to prevent the federal government from denying Americans those guaranteed rights,” Abbott said in a press release (http://gov.texas.gov/news/press-release/21803) Tuesday. “Today, the President trampled the purpose and substance of the Bill of Rights by unilaterally imposing Second Amendment restrictions.”The outspoken Republican governor made his intent to disobey executive orders imposed by the president clear over the weekend in a pointed tweet, challenging Obama to “Come and take it.” (http://www.infowars.com/texas-governor-challenges-obama-on-gun-control-come-and-take-it/)
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8th January 2016, 01:51 PM
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Users on Twitter are speculating that Obama’s tears during a press conference on gun control were faked as a way to pander to the emotions of Americans on gun violence.
mick silver
8th January 2016, 01:55 PM
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