BREAKING: President Readying Executive Orders on Gun Control
“Vice President Biden told White House allies in the gun control
fight Thursday that President Obama will be announcing new executive
actions on gun violence in the days after the Senate voted down a gun
violence bill,”
buzzfeed.com
reports. “On a conference call with ‘stakeholders,’ Biden told gun
control advocates that the fight is not over and that eventual action on
gun control will come. Press were not invited to the conference call; a
participant provided BuzzFeed with access.” The White House is already
walking back Biden’s promises. But here’s part of the transcript . . .
Look, I know you’re going to say that I’m just being an
optimist and I’m trying to put a good face on this. But, you know, I’ve
been around here a long time and we’ve already done, because of you,
some really good things. Number one, the president is already lining up
some additional executive actions he’s going to be taking later this
week.
Already we have put out notifications to all communities that if they
want school resource officers to use their portion of the COPS grant to
be able to deal with a school resource officer or someone in the school
who’s a counselor, or whatever they need.
Secondly, we also have pushed forward grants for new and available
funding for dealing with training teachers and dealing with alerting
them to high-risk, you know, kids in their communities and their school
that are signs that they’re going to have a real problem and may be the
very kids you need to get to now before they end up like an Adam Lanza.
We also are going to have a national mental health dialogue where we’re
going to vastly expand mental health availability under the Mental
Health Parity act as well as the Affordable Care Act.
OK that’s the bit that the White House says refers to
existing Executive Orders, signed between Newtown and yesterday’s Senate debate about background checks. And then there’s this . . .
We also are reviewing the list of prohibited purchasers
to maybe expand that list of prohibited purchasers. Granted, only 60% of
people who go for a purchase are doing it [background checks].
I wonder what that means. Or if it’s just “Double Barrel” Joe shooting his mouth off. Again.
About Robert Farago
Robert Farago is the Publisher of The Truth About Guns (TTAG). He
started the site to explore the ethics, morality, business, politics,
culture, technology, practice, strategy, dangers and fun of guns.
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