Here we go (obama on gun control on fox right now)

[stewart]

[zteknik]

Should be the bill of lefts...

[sellersm]

Should be the bill of lefts...

LOL!

[hollohas]

I missed this before, but 9news is reporting this will all cost $500 million. So much for cutting spending...but we all forgot about all that economic mess anyway, so no biggie.

[Teufelhund]

I missed this before, but 9news is reporting this will all cost $500 million. So much for cutting spending...but we all forgot about all that economic mess anyway, so no biggie.

Small potatoes. We'll just get the rich people to pay for it! Unless they work in the entertainment industry. . . or belong to a union. . . or contributed to the 2012 campaign. . .

[Pancho Villa]

Stop whining. $500 million is a rounding error on the current budget and doesn't make a difference either way.

Its a lot of money to you and me, I think it keeps the federal govt running for a couple minutes at our current pace of spending.

Edit: I looked it up. Sorry, I was wrong. $500 million will keep the federal govt running for about 46 days out of the year.

It's still not that huge a deal in terms of its impact on the budget, even if it turns out to be true (and how you could estimate how much $ it would take to implement these things so quickly is beyond me.) Better to attack them through other ways.

[Rucker61]

Stop whining. $500 million is a rounding error on the current budget and doesn't make a difference either way.

Its a lot of money to you and me, I think it keeps the federal govt running for a couple minutes at our current pace of spending.

Edit: I looked it up. Sorry, I was wrong. $500 million will keep the federal govt running for about 46 days out of the year.

Did you mean 4-6 days? That's the number I'm coming up with.

[hollohas]

Stop whining. $500 million is a rounding error on the current budget and doesn't make a difference either way.

Its a lot of money to you and me, I think it keeps the federal govt running for a couple minutes at our current pace of spending.

Edit: I looked it up. Sorry, I was wrong. $500 million will keep the federal govt running for about 46 days out of the year.

It's still not that huge a deal in terms of its impact on the budget, even if it turns out to be true (and how you could estimate how much $ it would take to implement these things so quickly is beyond me.) Better to attack them through other ways.

Government spending is a problem. They just committed to more spending when they have NO money. $500M or $500T, it's a problem.

But as always Pancho, your post was a pleasure to read.

[Teufelhund]

Yeah, fuck it. What's half a billion when you're already insolvent to the tune of 16 trillion? If it saves just one life. . .

[Aloha_Shooter]

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 it widely 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 effective use of new gun safety technologies and challenge the private sector to develop innovative 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

15 and 16 are the ones that bug me the most. I'm kinda perturbed by #5 but the rest of it ... not sure I care too much.