Obama Taking 23 Actions Aimed at Gun Violence

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Updated: 1/16 2:04 pm
WASHINGTON (AP) - President Barack Obama is taking 23 executive actions aimed at curbing gun violence that don't require congressional action, including measures to encourage schools to hire police officers, increase research on gun violence and improve efforts to prosecute gun crime.

The executive actions are part of an overarching package assembled by a task force led by Vice President Joe Biden. The measures come a month after the mass shooting in Newtown, Ct., that killed 20 elementary school children.

Obama is directing the Centers for Disease Control to research gun violence and is seeking rules to ensure that law enforcement conducts background checks before returning seized firearms.

He intends to nominate Todd Jones as director of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives. Jones is the agency's acting director.

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Raptor660 - 1/18/2013 11:15 AM
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Banning "assault" rifles has been tried and failed. Banning cocaine, meth, heroin is still being tried, and is failing. What part of this can't you people understand? The legislation only penalizes LEGAL gun owners. It doesn't affect criminals. Criminals don't take safety courses, or apply for permits. They don't buy their own guns at stores. So this whole 'action' has nothing to do with gun violence. It's a charade. Religion and goldie need to get some eduacation. These guns they want to ban are semi-automatic. So is my .22 cal rifle. And my .45 cal handgun. Semi-auto is semi-auto. Furthermore, do either of you know the #1 murder weapon in the USA is? Hammers and clubs. Of murders committed by firearm, do either of you know the percentage killed by 'assault' style weapons? Less than 2%. Again, this is all a charade, and won't lower the death numbers. For the record, I'm not a member of the NRA. I have no interest in owning an assault rifle. And yes, I am aware 20 children were shot to death. By an obama supporter, using a stolen assault rifle, in a gun free zone.

nomercy - 1/18/2013 10:33 AM
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it would be nice if some of the liberals quoting on this page actually could explain the diffence between an " assault rifle " and any other semi-auto rifle. please tell me how one is more deadly than the other??? idiots.

Golden Taint - 1/17/2013 12:23 PM
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Strange how everyone seems to be ignoring ReligionStinks' comment. I'm amazed how this, like every issue, seems to be catagorized as a left vs. right political issue. Don't you anti-liberal folks understand that this is the result of a bunch of children being murdered? If Romney were president right now, he'd be doing the same exact thing, kinda like Reagan did before. Your endless whining and complaing serves no purpose. Why don't you just quietly pray to God for solutions.

ReligionStinks - 1/17/2013 12:19 PM
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Honestly, some of you people are brain dead manipulated puppets of the NRA, which itself is just an arm of the gun manufacturing industry. Nobody is trying to take your hand guns away from you. If you are against banning assault weapons, you are just a crazed idiot.

nomercy - 1/17/2013 11:36 AM
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"Those who hammer their guns into plows will plow for those who do not." thomas jefferson.

Raptor660 - 1/17/2013 10:36 AM
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"This year will go down in history. For the first time, a civilized nation has full gun control. Our streets will be safer, our police more efficient, and the world will follow our lead into the future!" Adolf Hitler - 1935 So banning guns will take them off the streets? We should try banning heroin and meth too!

nomercy - 1/17/2013 10:23 AM
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the online pole sure did change from yesterday to today. yesterday over 70 percent for no gun control - today it is at 35 percent. some one must have told all of the liberal sheep to login and vote.

vote2012 - 1/17/2013 9:14 AM
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Amnesty for illegals. Obamacare. Same sex marriage. Higher taxes. Apologizing for America's greatness. Record debt. Record spending. High unemployment. Record food stamp spending. And now the Second Amendment. When will the madness stop!?

ReligionStinks - 1/17/2013 8:03 AM
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So, was Reagan a "communist"? He was for gun control. Discuss.

missy22 - 1/16/2013 5:06 PM
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When will we get a reprieve from this guys empty, vote-for-us theatrics? The economy ain't even close to being out of the woods, and this is all they have to do?
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