Obama spends millions to prevent gun violence

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Obama spends millions to prevent gun violence
12/17/14 03:35 PM—Updated 12/18/14 09:19 AM
By Michele Richinick


President Barack Obama on Wednesday committed to spending tens of millions of dollars on preventing gun violence, by signing a measure into law.

The bill, the Omnibus Appropriations Act, includes several funding increases for curbing gun violence. The law calls for $73 million to help prevent felons, fugitives, and domestic abusers from buying guns by improving state submissions of prohibited people into the National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS). The price tag is the highest amount ever allocated to the system.

The new measure also requires the FBI to report how well states are performing in submitting records to NICS, and includes $75 million for a national school safety initiative and $6 million to the U.S. Department of Justice for community-based efforts, such as public health programs.


“As we head into 2015 we are more inspired than ever that the voice of the American people will prevail over the interests of the corporate gun lobby and the ranks of lapdog politicians who do its bidding,” said Dan Gross, president of the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence.

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http://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/obama-spends-millions-prevent-gun-violence


....thank you, Mr. President
 

With all the new technology. It's probably been thought of and studied, but my idea was to mandate to the gun manufacturers the requirement to insert a GPS tracking chip within the gun somewhere. They could track the gun like OnStar does your car. It would open up all kinds of possibilities for law enforcement. Or have I been watching too much TV?
 
Thats a very good idea, SOP, but getting gun manufacturing to go for it is another matter.
 

Thats a very good idea, SOP, but getting gun manufacturing to go for it is another matter.
Good point but I think that S&W, Browning, Winchester, Colt,,,etc. Could be convinced to comply since most of their income comes from military arms sales. They're not a TV cable company and can thumb their noses at the Golden Goose. How did the government mandate to the mobile phone makers to put a GPS in?
 
This amount has been in the budget for 10-15 years. There is nothing new here. The FBI loses something like 300 (illegal sales when someone puts a yes on the 4733 form thus lying) gun checks every day and there is 2 state inquiries every second to the FBI. As the gun actually commits the crimes it is going to work real well knowing where it is and not the person committing it,
that is real genius. it wouldn't, work any way the criminals would take out the gps. Better stick with the NSA so I know where to go to get my hard drive redone if it goes down
 
I'll bet your the guy who sold the idiot Holder the batteries (another problem when they start going dead) when DOJ put the gps in the guns they sold to the Mexican cartels in Fast and Furious.
 
Letter from the BATF to each gun owner. Dear sir we have noticed the batteries are dead on your gun, would you please install new ones -- It Christmas not April fools!
 
I'll bet your the guy who sold the idiot Holder the batteries (another problem when they start going dead) when DOJ put the gps in the guns they sold to the Mexican cartels in Fast and Furious.

I'm sorry I didn't waste 2 hours of my life watching F&F. I have more meaningful pursuits like watching 'Storage Wars and Pawn Stars'. I guess we should just give up trying to control the criminals and build higher walls around our doomsday bunkers. It was just a thought anyway, since they're putting chips in everything nowadays I wondered why not? And the NSA reference was meant as sarcasm.

Keep forgetting that us seniors take everything so literally, leaving little room for humor.
 
Fast and Furious was the official DOJ name for the operation Holder was held in contempt of Congress and resigned. Sorry I missed the tongue in cheek. Still do not understand what the military contracts have to do with criminals.
 
[h=1]Holder slams Republicans after being cleared in ‘Fast and Furious’ investigation[/h]http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/09/...ng-cleared-in-fast-and-furious-investigation/

By David Ferguson
Wednesday, September 19, 2012 15:07 EDT

An internal Department of Justice investigation cleared Attorney General Eric Holder of wrongdoing in the “Fast and Furious” operation, a program that came under fire in an investigation led by California congressman Rep. Darrell Issa (R), who alleged that Holder’s negligence had botched the operation. According to Talking Points Memo, Holder released a statement slamming the investigation as a “baseless” waste of time and resources.

“It is unfortunate that some were so quick to make baseless accusations before they possessed the facts about these operations – accusations that turned out to be without foundation and that have caused a great deal of unnecessary harm and confusion,” Holder said. “I hope today’s report acts as a reminder of the dangers of adopting as fact unsubstantiated conclusions before an investigation of the circumstances is completed."

.....just another Republican witch hunt that fell flat.
 
politicans been trying for years to do this and they all failed. and so will this one. waste a good money
 
I will be sending your message to the border patrolman who was killed and the to some of the families in Mexico who were and still being killed by the guns Holder used in his plan. Holder was not cleared, and was held in contempt for blocking a congessional hearing. I'm not Repblican by any means but I would certainly like to thank who ever it was for stopping those clowns. I just guess they found a witch.
 
I will be sending your message to the border patrolman who was killed and the to some of the families in Mexico who were and still being killed by the guns Holder used in his plan. Holder was not cleared, and was held in contempt for blocking a congessional hearing. I'm not Repblican by any means but I would certainly like to thank who ever it was for stopping those clowns. I just guess they found a witch.

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It's amazing that you what quote the accused person exhonarting themselves,what do you expect? But to the point you have made no basis for Obama increasing spending other than this posturing article which doesn't contain the breakdown on any percentages or if any increases over previous spending.
 
Even Holder states that people didn't have the facts and he was the one holding them back. Double talk at it's best.
 
These kinds of "Feel Good" measures will do very little in reducing the gun violence in this country. 99.99% of the people who purchase firearms legally and follow the rules will Never use their weapons in a criminal manner.

In virtually every case of the highly publicized murders in recent years, the perpetrator has had a long history of Mental Problems. Yet, our mental health treatment capacity has been decimated over the past several decades. If a person has a problem that requires extensive care, such care is virtually non-existent, anymore. It has become "Politically Incorrect" to label anyone Mentally Ill, and consequently, these people and their families are left to cope the best they can. The Sandy Hook massacre is probably the best example of this massive hole in our nations health care system. 6 million dollars for "public health programs" is just a pittance compared to what is Really needed.

Secondly, the vast majority of murders take place in our inner cities, and are drug and street gang related. These thugs do not buy their guns legally, nor go through any Background Checks. They steal their guns, or have some other person buy their weapons for them. If "gun control" wants to limit anything, it should have Huge penalties for anyone who makes a "straw purchase" for one of these thugs.

Gun Control is, and always will be, an emotional issue....and unfortunately, emotion, rather than good common sense, drives most attempts to limit gun violence.
 
I agree with Don, most of the gun violence will not be addressed with these measures. I don't have a problem with the average responsible citizen having to go through a background check to buy a gun, but that should be the extent of it. Most shootings and gun violence are by criminals or street gangs, who get their guns on the streets. That is what needs to be addressed, IMO.

Also, the larger 'mass' shootings are often done by mentally ill people who are under the influence of prescription pharmaceutical drugs. They perhaps have bounced from drug to drug and dose to dose for years and years, or aren't being properly monitored by their physicians. In my opinion, these drugs shouldn't even be used the way they are today, it's a known fact that they cause either homicidal or suicidal tendencies.

• Eric Harris age 17 (first on Zoloft then Luvox) and Dylan Klebold aged 18 (Columbine school shooting in Littleton, Colorado), killed 12 students and 1 teacher, and wounded 23 others, before killing themselves. Klebold's medical records have never been made available to the public.

• Jeff Weise, age 16, had been prescribed 60 mg/day of Prozac (three times the average starting dose for adults!) when he shot his grandfather, his grandfather's girlfriend and many fellow students at Red Lake, Minnesota. He then shot himself. 10 dead, 12 wounded.

• Cory Baadsgaard, age 16, Wahluke (Washington state) High School, was on Paxil (which caused him to have hallucinations) when he took a rifle to his high school and held 23 classmates hostage. He has no memory of the event.

• Chris Fetters, age 13, killed his favorite aunt while taking Prozac.

• Christopher Pittman, age 12, murdered both his grandparents while taking Zoloft.

• Mathew Miller, age 13, hung himself in his bedroom closet after taking Zoloft for 6 days.

• Kip Kinkel, age 15, (on Prozac and Ritalin) shot his parents while they slept then went to school and opened fire killing 2 classmates and injuring 22 shortly after beginning Prozac treatment.

• Luke Woodham, age 16 (Prozac) killed his mother and then killed two students, wounding six others.

• A boy in Pocatello, ID (Zoloft) in 1998 had a Zoloft-induced seizure that caused an armed stand off at his school.

• Michael Carneal (Ritalin), age 14, opened fire on students at a high school prayer meeting in West Paducah, Kentucky. Three teenagers were killed, five others were wounded..

• A young man in Huntsville, Alabama (Ritalin) went psychotic chopping up his parents with an ax and also killing one sibling and almost murdering another.

• Andrew Golden, age 11, (Ritalin) and Mitchell Johnson, aged 14, (Ritalin) shot 15 people, killing four students, one teacher, and wounding 10 others.

• TJ Solomon, age 15, (Ritalin) high school student in Conyers, Georgia opened fire on and wounded six of his class mates.

• Rod Mathews, age 14, (Ritalin) beat a classmate to death with a bat.

• James Wilson, age 19, (various psychiatric drugs) from Breenwood, South Carolina, took a .22 caliber revolver into an elementary school killing two young girls, and wounding seven other children and two teachers.

• Elizabeth Bush, age 13, (Paxil) was responsible for a school shooting in Pennsylvania

• Jason Hoffman (Effexor and Celexa) – school shooting in El Cajon, California

• Jarred Viktor, age 15, (Paxil), after five days on Paxil he stabbed his grandmother 61 times.

• Chris Shanahan, age 15 (Paxil) in Rigby, ID who out of the blue killed a woman.

• Jeff Franklin (Prozac and Ritalin), Huntsville, AL, killed his parents as they came home from work using a sledge hammer, hatchet, butcher knife and mechanic's file, then attacked his younger brothers and sister.

• Neal Furrow (Prozac) in LA Jewish school shooting reported to have been court-ordered to be on Prozac along with several other medications.

• Kevin Rider, age 14, was withdrawing from Prozac when he died from a gunshot wound to his head. Initially it was ruled a suicide, but two years later, the investigation into his death was opened as a possible homicide. The prime suspect, also age 14, had been taking Zoloft and other SSRI antidepressants.

• Alex Kim, age 13, hung himself shortly after his Lexapro prescription had been doubled.

• Diane Routhier was prescribed Welbutrin for gallstone problems. Six days later, after suffering many adverse effects of the drug, she shot herself.

• Billy Willkomm, an accomplished wrestler and a University of Florida student, was prescribed Prozac at the age of 17. His family found him dead of suicide – hanging from a tall ladder at the family's Gulf Shore Boulevard home in July 2002.

• Kara Jaye Anne Fuller-Otter, age 12, was on Paxil when she hung herself from a hook in her closet. Kara's parents said ".... the damn doctor wouldn't take her off it and I asked him to when we went in on the second visit. I told him I thought she was having some sort of reaction to Paxil...")

• Gareth Christian, Vancouver, age 18, was on Paxil when he committed suicide in 2002, (Gareth's father could not accept his son's death and killed himself.)
• Julie Woodward, age 17, was on Zoloft when she hung herself in her family's detached garage.

• Matthew Miller was 13 when he saw a psychiatrist because he was having difficulty at school. The psychiatrist gave him samples of Zoloft. Seven days later his mother found him dead, hanging by a belt from a laundry hook in his closet.

• Kurt Danysh, age 18, and on Prozac, killed his father with a shotgun. He is now behind prison bars, and writes letters, trying to warn the world that SSRI drugs can kill.

• Woody __, age 37, committed suicide while in his 5th week of taking Zoloft. Shortly before his death his physician suggested doubling the dose of the drug. He had seen his physician only for insomnia. He had never been depressed, nor did he have any history of any mental illness symptoms.

• A boy from Houston, age 10, shot and killed his father after his Prozac dosage was increased.

• Hammad Memon, age 15, shot and killed a fellow middle school student. He had been diagnosed with ADHD and depression and was taking Zoloft and "other drugs for the conditions."

• Matti Saari, a 22-year-old culinary student, shot and killed 9 students and a teacher, and wounded another student, before killing himself. Saari was taking an SSRI and a benzodiazepine.

• Steven Kazmierczak, age 27, shot and killed five people and wounded 21 others before killing himself in a Northern Illinois University auditorium. According to his girlfriend, he had recently been taking Prozac, Xanax and Ambien. Toxicology results showed that he still had trace amounts of Xanax in his system.

• Finnish gunman Pekka-Eric Auvinen, age 18, had been taking antidepressants before he killed eight people and wounded a dozen more at Jokela High School – then he committed suicide.

• Asa Coon from Cleveland, age 14, shot and wounded four before taking his own life. Court records show Coon was on Trazodone.

• Jon Romano, age 16, on medication for depression, fired a shotgun at a teacher in his New York high school.
Missing from list... 3 of 4 known to have taken these same meds....

• What drugs was Jared Lee Loughner on, age 21...... killed 6 people and injuring 14 others in Tuscon, Az?

• What drugs was James Eagan Holmes on, age 24..... killed 12 people and injuring 59 others in Aurora Colorado? (ZOLOFT)

• What drugs was Jacob Tyler Roberts on, age 22, killed 2 injured 1, Clackamas Or?

• What drugs was Adam Peter Lanza on, age 20, Killed 26 and wounded 2 in Newtown Ct?
 
These kinds of "Feel Good" measures will do very little in reducing the gun violence in this country. 99.99% of the people who purchase firearms legally and follow the rules will Never use their weapons in a criminal manner.

In virtually every case of the highly publicized murders in recent years, the perpetrator has had a long history of Mental Problems. Yet, our mental health treatment capacity has been decimated over the past several decades. If a person has a problem that requires extensive care, such care is virtually non-existent, anymore. It has become "Politically Incorrect" to label anyone Mentally Ill, and consequently, these people and their families are left to cope the best they can. The Sandy Hook massacre is probably the best example of this massive hole in our nations health care system. 6 million dollars for "public health programs" is just a pittance compared to what is Really needed.

Secondly, the vast majority of murders take place in our inner cities, and are drug and street gang related. These thugs do not buy their guns legally, nor go through any Background Checks. They steal their guns, or have some other person buy their weapons for them. If "gun control" wants to limit anything, it should have Huge penalties for anyone who makes a "straw purchase" for one of these thugs.

Gun Control is, and always will be, an emotional issue....and unfortunately, emotion, rather than good common sense, drives most attempts to limit gun violence.

Well, you can call it "a feel good" measure if you like, I'll call it common sense. Polls have shown that the majority in this country want gun control.
 
Gun Sales Skyrocket on Black Friday


Gun sellers had a huge Black Friday according to the FBI, which said requests for background checks were coming in at three per second.
More than 144,000 background checks will need to be performed after the the Friday sales, CNN reported Friday. The three-requests-per-second number is three times the daily average. Some 600 FBI and contract call center employees now must work 17-hour workdays to complete the background checks in three business days, as required by law, FBI spokesman Stephen Fischer said.
"Traditionally, Black Friday is one of our busiest days for transaction volume," Fischer told CNN.
On average, more than 500 gun background checks a day fail because of incomplete information required for a decision, according to the FBI's National Instant Criminal Background Check System, which is responsible for checks on firearm purchases from federally licensed shops.
"We are averaging three checks per second," he said. "The challenge is to have staff keep up with this volume. We do that by limiting personal leave, asking employees to work extra shifts and re-utilizing former ... employees to serve in NICS during this busy period."

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