Trey Wright
1-16-13
Obama Assault Weapons Ban
Wait before you start anything remember to read before doing anything just remember that. A lot of ignorant folks are use to trusting people so much that they don't look up the facts for themselves. Today I heard a man said that "Fox news told him that gun violence was down since 1920", Also He said "Mexicans are taking over America" First off people Fox News have been lies for a long time. Now that Obama is President they Lie a lot more. The uneducated White Americas are willing to believe anything they hear because they see an African American at a higher Power. With the crazies Listing to Glen Beck, Alex Jones, Rand Paul, Ted Nugent, Chuck Norris and Hank Williams Jr. These people are getting the white uneducated racist Americans to start a civil war over some gun that kill people. Kentucky and North Dakota are getting there guns ready for a civil war something that's not evening necessary. You don't need a machine gun for protection I'm okay with a hand gun. The story in Georgia about a women who shot a robber to defend her kids she had a hand gun and shot it 4 times it was a revolver. Not a AK-47, M16, or Amd-63. The NRA are using that as an excuse to have more gun I'm okay with a hand gun but not a Machine gun. Gov. Andrew Cuomo sign the nation's first 's gun control bill since the Sandy Hook shooting.
58% of the nation want the gun band this not Obama saying this himself he has more than half the nation behind him.
http://news.discovery.com/human/life/resistance-to-assault-weapons-bad-130116.htm
Since 1966, there have been 90 school shootings in the U.S., with 231 fatalities
Of the 11,000 to 12,000 gun murders each year, more than half involve
both black killers and black victims, mostly in urban areas and mostly
gang-related. The No. 1 cause of preventable death for young black men
is not auto accidents or accidental drowning, but homicide
Obama wants
every single gun owner to go through a proper background check, so it
can be determined whether they have a criminal history or diagnosed
mental illness. He wants Congress to close the gun show loophole that
allows people at gun shows, and private buyers of used weapons, to avoid
getting checked. He will also, through executive action, urge private
sellers to conduct background checks, even if they aren’t mandatory.
2. Improving state reporting of criminals and the mentally ill.
While all states are required to report to the National Instant
Criminal Background Check System (NICS) people who should not have
access to guns, some states are sluggish about putting the data into the
system. Obama will put more money into the hands of the states so that
they can improve their reporting systems, and issue stronger guidelines
to let states know when they should report people. Obama will also,
through Presidential Memorandum, work to make sure agencies are
regularly entering data into NICS.
3. Banning assault weapons. This is likely the most
difficult battle Obama will undertake. He wants to reinstate the 1994
Assault Weapons Ban, which outlaws military-grade weapons, like the
AR-15
used by Newtown gunman Adam Lanza and by Aurora Theater gunman James
Holmes. Obama wants Congress to pass the ban, and close some of the
loopholes identified in its 1994 iteration.
4. Capping magazine clip capacity at 10 bullets. A
military-grade weapon is dangerous, but so are its accessories: Obama
proposes banning all extended magazine clips that hold over 10 bullets.
Huge magazine clips allow a gunman to fire off hundreds of rounds
without having to stop, even once, to reload. The high-capacity magazine
ban was also part of the 1994 Assault Weapons Ban.
5. Purging armor-piercing bullets. The sale of armor
piercing ammunition has been banned for quite some time, but is still
legal to posess such bullets. Obama is calling on Congress to outlaw
ownership and transfer of these bullets, instead of just the sale. Those
who oppose any gun laws
try to spin
a ban on armor piercing bullets as a ban on deer hunting ammunition,
but such ammo has the ability to penetrate bullet-proof vests, and is
more colloquially known as “cop killer bullets.”
6. Funding police officers. Obama wants Congress to
reverse its course of austerity for public employees by approving $4
billion to fund police enforcement around the country.
7. Strengthening gun tracking. In order to track
weapons that are used for crimes, Obama will issue a memorandum
mandating that all agencies trace back firearms. This means that any
agency in the country must trace guns used in crimes back to their
original owners, as a way to help collect data on where criminal weapons
are coming from. Obama will also ask Congress to allow law enforcement
to do background checks on guns seized during investigations.
8. Supporting research on gun violence. Obama hopes
to be able to gather more information on gun violence and misuse of
firearms, and use that data to inform the work of law enforcement. He
also wants to restart research, which has been
long blocked by the National Rifle Association,
on how video games, the media, and violence affect violent gun crimes.
The Centers for Disease Control will immediately begin these efforts,
but Obama also is calling on Congress to add $10 million to the pot of
funding for such research.
9. Encouraging mental health providers to get involved.
In order to make sure that those with homicidal thoughts are unable to
access the weapons with which to kill, Obama seeks to encourage mental
health professionals to alert authorities to such people. He will
clarify that doing so is not in violation of patient privacy laws. He
also wants to dispel the idea that Obamacare
prevents doctors from talking to patients about guns.
10. Promoting safe gun ownership. The administration
will start a “responsible gun ownership” campaign to encourage gun
owners to lock up their firearms. He will also work with the Consumer
Product Safety Commission to make sure safes and gun locks on the market
are effective. He’s also calling on the justice department to help him
come up with new gun safety technology.
11. Funding school counseling. Obama is calling on
Congress to fund the positions of 1,000 news school counselors. The
funding will come both through the already-existent COPS Hiring Grant,
and through a new Comprehensive School Safety program that Congress will
need to sign off on. The latter would put #150 million into funding for
new counselors and social workers in schools.
12. Encouraging safe, anti-bullying school environments.
Over 8,000 schools could receive new funding — $50 million — under
Obama’s plan to encourage safer school environments. Obama wants to help
at-risk students by creating a “school climate survey” that will
collect data on what services students need, and to remedy any problems
by putting professionals into schools. The administration will also
issue guidelines on school discipline policies.
13. Recognizing the mental health needs of low-income Americans.
Medicaid recipients already qualify for some mental health services,
but Obama would like to expand that service so that low-income Americans
have the same access to professional help as those who have money to
pay for it on their own. Obama will issue a directive to heads of state
health programs, enforcing “mental health parity” — the idea that mental
health should be treated as a priority as important as physical health.
