As world watches Boston, Today(Mod.. article from Jan) Obama signs 23 Executive Orders ..

[kathy88]

http://www.forbes.com/sites/rickungar/2013/01/16/here-are-the-23-executive-orders-on-gun-safety-signed-today-by-the-president/




President Obama has signed 23 executive orders designed to address the problem of gun violence in America. The following are the items addressed:

Gun Violence Reduction Executive Actions:

1. Issue a Presidential Memorandum to require federal agencies to make relevant data available to the federal background check system.

2. Address unnecessary legal barriers, particularly relating to the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act, that may prevent states from making information available to the background check system.

3. Improve incentives for states to share information with the background check system.

4. Direct the Attorney General to review categories of individuals prohibited from having a gun to make sure dangerous people are not slipping through the cracks.

5. Propose rulemaking to give law enforcement the ability to run a full background check on an individual before returning a seized gun.

6. Publish a letter from ATF to federally licensed gun dealers providing guidance on how to run background checks for private sellers.

7. Launch a national safe and responsible gun ownership campaign.

8. Review safety standards for gun locks and gun safes (Consumer Product Safety Commission).

9. Issue a Presidential Memorandum to require federal law enforcement to trace guns recovered in criminal investigations.

10. Release a DOJ report analyzing information on lost and stolen guns and make itwidely available to law enforcement.

11. Nominate an ATF director.

12. Provide law enforcement, first responders, and school officials with proper training for active shooter situations.

13. Maximize enforcement efforts to prevent gun violence and prosecute gun crime.

14. Issue a Presidential Memorandum directing the Centers for Disease Control to research the causes and prevention of gun violence.

15. Direct the Attorney General to issue a report on the availability and most effectiveuse of new gun safety technologies and challenge the private sector to developinnovative technologies.

16. Clarify that the Affordable Care Act does not prohibit doctors asking their patients about guns in their homes.

17. Release a letter to health care providers clarifying that no federal law prohibits them from reporting threats of violence to law enforcement authorities.

18. Provide incentives for schools to hire school resource officers.

19. Develop model emergency response plans for schools, houses of worship and institutions of higher education.

20. Release a letter to state health officials clarifying the scope of mental health services that Medicaid plans must cover.

21. Finalize regulations clarifying essential health benefits and parity requirements within ACA exchanges.

22. Commit to finalizing mental health parity regulations.

23. Launch a national dialogue led by Secretaries Sebelius and Duncan on mental health.

[Bruno]

What? No investigations into cause and effect of prescription drugs and mass killings? So surprised!

[sailingaway]

Violations of the Constitution galore.

This is sickening.

No means 'no'.

[seyferjm]

#16...SMH

[Anti Federalist]

Violations of the Constitution galore.

This is sickening.

No means 'no'.

This:


2. Address unnecessary legal barriers, particularly relating to the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act, that may prevent states from making information available to the background check system.

This is the end right there.

Once the precedent is set that the health care surveillance grid can tie into the criminal just-us grid, then there will be no stopping it.

Everybody will have a "policy" requiring access to your health records, and all manners of restrictions and prohibitions and job disqualifications will follow.

And, as usual, outside our merry little band of refuseniks, nobody gives a flying fuck at a rolling doughnut about it.

[pp0rker]

"12. Provide law enforcement, first responders, and school officials with proper training for active shooter situations."

And they'll even provide the active shooter.

[Warrior_of_Freedom]

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[WhistlinDave]

What? No investigations into cause and effect of prescription drugs and mass killings? So surprised!

Actually, yes... Well not really... They're looking at a mental health angle but it may not be a good thing:


As part of his administration’s sweeping response to the Newtown school shootings, President Obama is calling on Congress to fund a number of programs aimed at detecting and responding to mental illness among young people. A multipronged effort, Obama’s proposal includes $50 million to train 5,000 mental health professionals to work with young people in communities and schools; $55 million for Project AWARE (Advancing Wellness and Resilience in Education), which would empower school districts, teachers and other adults to detect and respond to mental illness in 750,000 young people; and $25 million for state efforts to identify and treat adolescents and young adults.

One of the key components of Obama’s plan, mental health first-aid training for adults and students, is starting to gain traction across the country. Incredibly, after taking a mere 12-hour course comprised of PowerPoint presentations, videos, discussions, role playing and other interactive activities, for instance, a participant can be certified “to identify, understand and respond to the signs of mental illness, substance use and eating disorders.”

While commendable in its stated goals, there’s a whiff of something not quite right about a program whose supporting data claims that “26.2 percent of people in the U.S. — roughly one in four — have a mental health disorder in any given year.” This is especially so at a time when government agencies seem to be increasingly inclined to view outspoken critics of government policies as mentally ill and in need of psychiatric help and possible civil commitment. But I digress. That’s a whole other topic.

Getting back to young people, Dr. Thomas Friedan, director of the CDC, has characterized the nation’s current fixation on ADHD as an over diagnosis and a “misuse [of ADHD medications that] appears to be growing at an alarming rate.”

More here:

http://canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/54348

In short, they are putting mechanisms in place to make sure MORE kids are put on psychotropic medications earlier, by labeling them with disorders. (Because surely this will curb the gun violence from people on psyche meds.)

[randpaul2016]

article from January

[MelissaWV]

article from January

Dammit. I thought it would take at least ten posts for someone to read the article. So close.

[kathy88]

Dammit. I thought it would take at least ten posts for someone to read the article. So close.

Oops.

[Anti Federalist]

Dammit. I thought it would take at least ten posts for someone to read the article. So close.

LOL, yeah I know, what a bunch of dumb asses around here, amirite?

Made the same point when it was posted back in January.

Made the same point in another thread about Toomey/Manchin removing HIPAA protections.

And the same point again when it was revealed that psychiatrists in NY state are getting subpoenaed to reveal health records of gun owners.

[Dogsoldier]

Well....But what BS did Obama pull today?You know the Government did something. History shows all kinds of shady things that have been done during or after "terrorists" attacks and scandals.