Obama unveils gun-control proposals
President Obama on Wednesday formally proposed the most expansive gun-control policies in generations and initiated 23 separate executive actions aimed at curbing what he called “the epidemic of gun violence in this country.”
While no legislation can prevent every tragedy, he said in announcing the proposals, “if there is even one thing we can do to reduce this violence, if there’s even one life that can be saved, then we’ve got an obligation to try.”
Obama called on Congress to swiftly pass legislation to ban assault weapons and high-capacity ammunition magazines for civilian use and to require universal background checks for all gun buyers. Obama’s proposals include mental health and school safety measures, as well as a tough new crackdown on gun trafficking.
Obama spoke in a White House ceremony to formally unveil the proposals and to sign executive orders and paperwork initiating immediate administrative actions, including steps to strengthen the existing background-check system, promote research on gun violence and provide training in dealing with “active shooter situations.”
Taken together, the gun-control proposals rank among Obama’s most ambitious legislative projects, along with his fiscal stimulus package, his health-care law and Wall Street regulations — all achieved when Democrats controlled both houses of Congress. Administration officials said Wednesday that the proposals do not represent specific legislation. But they said that in the coming weeks, the White House would be working with members of a divided Congress to develop bills to implement as much of the package as possible.
I guess I slept through another Obama speech this morning. I hear Hairplug Joe made a few remarks too. Oh well.
This don’t make no sense. As of next week Obama is officially a lame-duck. Historically, second-term presidents don’t have much luck passing anything ambitious as far as new legislation. Gun control is still unpopular. There are some tough budget battles coming up.
So why is Obama wasting his ammo on this issue?
I know! It must be squirrel season! And gun control is a big, fat, furry squirrel.
(You didn’t really think Obama was taking a bold stand based on deeply held principles, did you?)
Go ahead, make my day!
The Crawdad Hole 
I like the skeptical expression on the face of the little girl in red.
Where are the Asian and Hispanic kids?
lol …. first thing I noticed too 😀
Obama’s 23 new Imperial Decrees:
Vodkapundit summarizes:
the bit about cdc research is creepy, imo.
My next door neighbor is the regional grand pooh bah of the NRA (sorry, not familiar with the chain of command), trains Seals to shoot, holds clinics for women, and has an arsenal to outfit a third world army in his garage. AND, a really, really nice, normal guy. His response to all this? Meh. Bread and Circuses. 😀
exactly.
Wow. That’s a whole lotta nuthin’.
It’s actually rather incredible how much Bronco can not do.
Bronco doesn’t have the Democratic votes in the Senate for anything stronger, and he knows it. Today was all politics, trying to blame NRA and Repubs in advance of 2014, hoping no one knows his own Senate Dems aren’t with him, either.
Notice there’s no mention of violence in games or movies?
How come gun buyers have to go though background checks but presidents don’t?
Because shut up is why, you racist.
I agree. I really resent them talking about how “some people” use guns for massacres because let’s just say it Some young men use guns for massacres. You can easily get a profile of they type of person who is likely to go on a shooting spree and women are not involved. Maybe we should put an extra tax on men to provide security for society.
I am also disgusted that the media will not even consider what effect violent “entertainment” has on the issue of massacres. Because God forbid they should have their first amendment rights infringed. But no problem for them infringing on the second amendment rights of others as long as their children are in schools with armed guards.
Studies and reviews. What government does best. 😯
Why is he signing his speech??? 🙂
That was the only thing typed up before it was fed into the teleprompter. Before that it was on a Ipad and he couldn’t sign that unless it was a receipt for cigarettes.
😆 😆
The king has no clothes Yet people keep commenting on how dapper he looks. 😆
yeah and how cool he is…
What strikes me as kind of funny in a bitter, cynical way, is that none of this squirrel fluff makes the least bit of difference. It’s all completely impotent…..if your goal is to reduce gun violence in this country.
The Sandy Hook shooter didn’t have legal guns anyway, so increasing background checks will do nothing but force legal law abiding citizens to jump through more hoops. He didn’t consult with the Feds before planning his horror, most bad guys don’t!
The whole thing is such garbage, you really do have to laugh. Provide law enforcement with training for active shooter situations?? Like, duh, I wonder why nobody else ever thought about training cops in how to handle armed suspects? Oh wait, we already do that.
Obamaguns is the kinda thing Wally from Dilbert would come up with.
Do nothing while give the appearance of doing something.
Brit Hume said it’s all about laying traps for the republicans. PIck a sensitive issue that he doesn’t really give a crap about, hype it up in the media then set up the whole thing so it’s a huge loss for the GOP no matter what they do.
I think he just gets a kick out of perverse power plays. It’s probably as simple as that for a petulant narcissist. And it’s not just the republicans. Barry can’t even stop himself from flipping his finger at the vile progs or at his drooling syncophants in the media. I think he’s just a sick pup.
The Republicans can win some points with the voting public by assaulting the media which everyone hates. Give media consumers some rights so we can choose only the cable channels we want to watch, to receive and pay for, and the violent “entertainment” immediately loses it’s subsidy and becomes far more expensive and less common. But of course Republicans are not going to take on Media as they prostitute themselves to media companies also.
Will he be a lame duck if he just uses executive orders to do whatever he wants? He’s also seizing on it, because he knows it’s a good issue to grandstand on (his favorite thing) for political purposes instead of actually doing something about the economy which is BO-RING to him.
All vanity, all the time.
Well this is disgusting. Apparently good ole Jimmy Carter tried to kill a little Jack Russell with a bow saw in front of his family & treated the “help” like sh*t. We don’t really know these pols at all.
Mark Hemingway@Heminator
Ok, that’s terrifying. RT @asymmetricinfo: I never actively disliked Jimmy Carter, until now: http://bit.ly/13EsL7c
http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2013/01/16/The-Law-Reid-Amendment-Prevents-Using-Doctors-To-Compile-Gun-Registry
now this is interesting, in obama care reid put an amendment preventing drs from compiling gun registry
almost as if he knew this would happen under backtrack.
what is the difference between “executive action” and executive order”? I know impeachment was threatened over executive orders, is this a way to get around that??
http://theulstermanreport.com/2013/01/16/republican-insider-obama-livid-over-gun-rights-backlash/
backtrack not happy over gun rights backlash
Really if Obama would have said he wanted to look at ways to limit violence against innocent citizens in our society rather than saying he wants to restrict gun violence then people like me would support the effort. He needed to look at violent “entertainment” and lack of mental health facilities as well as restrictive gun laws.
http://weaselzippers.us/2013/01/16/msnbc-token-rino-joe-scarborough-outraged-by-ignorance-of-americans-who-think-they-have-a-constitutional-right-to-bear-arms/
joe scarborough spews garbage again
Joe and Mika got their talking points from MSNBC management, who got them overnight from the White House in advance of The One’s big public moment.
True story.
the times they are a changin
http://thehill.com/blogs/floor-action/house/277585-gop-lawmaker-doctors-have-no-business-asking-patients-about-guns
doctors have no business asking patients about guns
Maybe if they are treating a gunshot wound.
http://weaselzippers.us/2013/01/16/new-nra-ad-the-msm-speaks-for-elites-america-speaks-for-itself/
another NRA ad. pretty good
http://weaselzippers.us/2013/01/16/report-rand-paul-to-push-legislation-nullifying-emperor-obamas-executive-orders-on-guns/
do not know how far it will go
http://cnsnews.com/blog/gregory-gwyn-williams-jr/nationwide-ammo-shortages-police
maybe the cops could buy some from the feds. they bought billions of bullets under backtrack
http://www.michaelzwilliamson.com/blog/item/dismantling-the-mouthbreather-in-chief-s-gun-policies
this guy pulls no punches
Myiq
i think you would like this guy