{"id":56992,"date":"2016-01-07T05:00:45","date_gmt":"2016-01-07T11:00:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=56992"},"modified":"2016-01-06T15:12:07","modified_gmt":"2016-01-06T21:12:07","slug":"much-ado-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=56992","title":{"rendered":"Much Ado"},"content":{"rendered":"

Joe Doakes from Como Park emails:<\/p>\n

President Obama supposedly issued some Executive Orders relating to guns.\u00a0 Both sides are in an uproar.\u00a0 But wait \u2013 what did he actually do?<\/p>\n

The White House has a website, naturally.\u00a0 It lists all Executive Orders.\u00a0 There are no new orders relating to guns<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Okay, well, maybe the orders were issued but staff is slow updating the website?\u00a0 No, his speeches and remarks are right up-to-date<\/a>.<\/p>\n

So maybe they\u2019re not technically Executive Orders, maybe they\u2019re some other Presidential Action?\u00a0 Doesn\u2019t look like it.\u00a0 The only new Presidential Action relating to guns is a memo directing the AG and the Army<\/a> telling them to put together a research proposal to investigate the possibility of inventing some future technology that might make guns safer someday.<\/p>\n

The White House did post a FACT SHEET about guns<\/a>.\u00a0 It refers to Executive Actions.\u00a0 Is that the same as Executive Orders?\u00a0 Apparently not.\u00a0 Looking through the Actions, we find:<\/p>\n

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  1. ATF is finalizing a rule clarifying who needs an FFL to sell a gun.\u00a0 The federal rule-making process is a well-established procedure for making administrative law, this isn\u2019t a spontaneous action by the President<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n
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    1. The Attorney General sent a letter telling states to follow the law and also held a conference call.\u00a0 That\u2019ll take a bite out of crime.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n
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      1. The FBI will hire more people to do background checks.\u00a0 Good, they\u2019ll need help processing all the applications generated by panic over the media\u2019s reporting of the President\u2019s unconstitutional power grab \u2013 which doesn\u2019t seem to have happened, yet.\u00a0 Keep reading.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n
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        1. Democrats want to spend more money, $500 million for mental health care. \u00a0This is, in fact, the right place to spend money because the mental health system is a disgrace that all too often leads to tragedy; but considering the history of Democrat spending, I\u2019m not convinced any of the money actually will reach the mentally ill.\u00a0 Instead, I fear it\u2019ll end up being block grants to mental health advocacy groups who will hold picket signs and issue press releases demanding . . . another $500 million.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n
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          1. Social Security will begin the rulemaking process to strip seniors of their right to self-defense, if they mis-manage their finances. Rulemaking takes forever and mis-managing your finances isn\u2019t the same as posing a danger to yourself of others.\u00a0 I doubt that proposal will go anywhere.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n
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            1. DHS is finishing up rulemaking to clarify that HIPPA does not prevent shrinks from reporting psychos to the background check folks.\u00a0 Rulemaking, again, not bold new initiatives to make playgrounds safer.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n
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              1. ATF is proposing a rule to outlaw gun trusts used to hold title to machine guns, which have been used to kill exactly zero children and will do precisely nothing to make Americans safer. \u00a0More rulemaking, wait and see.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n
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                1. ATF issued a final a rule that gun dealers who lose a gun in transit must report it.\u00a0 Not controversial, everybody supports that.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

                  Frankly, I don\u2019t see that the President did anything today.\u00a0 This looks more like a publicity stunt to rally the base and deflect attention away from other administration failures, at home and abroad.\u00a0 This Presidency started with vacuous promises of hope and change but it\u2019s ending with tearful press conferences about memos and conference calls.\u00a0 It\u2019d be funny if it weren\u2019t so sad.<\/p>\n

                  Joe Doakes<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

                  It does indeed look to be shaping up that way.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

                  Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: President Obama supposedly issued some Executive Orders relating to guns.\u00a0 Both sides are in an uproar.\u00a0 But wait \u2013 what did he actually do? The White House has a website, naturally.\u00a0 It lists all Executive Orders.\u00a0 There are no new orders relating to guns. Okay, well, maybe the orders […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30,64,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-56992","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","category-president-obama","category-victim-disarmament"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56992","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=56992"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56992\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56993,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56992\/revisions\/56993"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=56992"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=56992"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=56992"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}