Ensure criminal data is forwarded to the NICS database from the states completely and promptly.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\nTalk, Talk, Talk<\/strong>: \u00a0Stuff the President can ask for, but needs Congressional approval and, most of all, funding:<\/p>\n\n- Funding for 200 new Keystone Kops. \u00a0Er, ATF agents. \u00a0Tomayto, tomahto.<\/li>\n
- 500 million in mental health funding.<\/li>\n
- Mining Social Security information for info about mental health.<\/li>\n
- Funding for “Smart guns”. \u00a0Good luck with that.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
Peace And Joy Through Memos<\/strong>: \u00a0Calls for sternly worded memos and announcements, including:<\/p>\n\n- Demanding the AGO write a letter to the states about coughing up mental health info<\/li>\n
- Telling the AGO to write a memo about domestic violence<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
Even A Blind Squirrel Can Find A Nut<\/strong>: \u00a0There are a few things buried in the proposal that aren’t actually stupid:<\/p>\n\n- Overhauling the background check system to make it open 24\/7, and cut down on bottlenecks. \u00a0This is especially important if Obama insists on constantly launching waves of panic-buying.<\/li>\n
- Investigating illegal online trafficking in guns. \u00a0Presumably excluding Eric Holder. \u00a0But still.<\/li>\n
- Defining responsibility for reporting thefts at the manufacturer\/carrier\/dealer level (might be good, provided it doesn’t merely serve as the basis for endless litigation)<\/li>\n
- Help for the mentally-ill.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
Have You\u00a0Really\u00a0<\/em>Thought About This?<\/strong>: \u00a0The President mentioons “removing the stigma” of mental illness – in the same metaphorical breath as he demands taking guns from people at slightest sign of it.<\/p>\nWould You Like Hobnails With Those Boots?<\/strong>: \u00a0These are proposals that are completely unacceptable, and pretty much stupid to boot, including:<\/p>\n\n- If the President really is trying to put firearms trusts in the hands of politicized local cops, this will be a big problem.<\/li>\n
- Denying guns to people whose finances are being a managed by Social Security, for no other reason.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
You First, Barry<\/strong>: \u00a0Things like:<\/p>\n\n- “Smart” guns”. \u00a0I’ll use them, Mr. President, when your Secret Service detail does.\n
\n- Not to mention the police, to say nothing of the military. \u00a0They won’t. \u00a0Either will I.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
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