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The 23 Executive Orders On Gun Safety Signed Today By The President

5:05 pm - 01/17/2013


Gun Violence Reduction Executive Actions:







7. Launch a national safe and responsible gun ownership campaign.




11. Nominate an ATF director.







18. Provide incentives for schools to hire school resource officers.




22. Commit to finalizing mental health parity regulations.




kaelstra 18th-Jan-2013 03:19 am (UTC)
Yeah, people at my SO's workplace are buying assault rifles in droves in a panic.
littlelauren86 18th-Jan-2013 05:08 am (UTC)
makes me sick to my stomach that dead children and/or gun safety measures = more $$$$$ for gun manufacturers.
wrestlingdog 18th-Jan-2013 06:07 pm (UTC)
It's pretty horrific, isn't it?
dustbunny105 18th-Jan-2013 07:34 am (UTC)
Same at my Wal*Mart. We have no assault rifles or ammunition left on the shelves.
keeperofthekeys 18th-Jan-2013 02:26 pm (UTC)
Yeah, my bf says prices on the gun trading/selling website he spends on time on have been way inflated. I majorly side-eyed him when he told me he had invested in high-round clips just to sell them at inflated prices when this gun control stuff started to go down.

Those are the gun people who scare me. The ones who NEED to have a 30-round clip because of, idk, reasons. I know they'd get them anyway, but I'd prefer if my bf wasn't the one selling them.

I come from a hunting family, I hunt, have been shooting guns since I was 9. I really wouldn't give a shit if they banned everything over a 10 round clip and any semi-automatic gun. I don't know why these people think they need these things.
nikoel 18th-Jan-2013 02:38 pm (UTC)
This is why I can't understand why the "responsible gun owners" I know aren't behind the president on banning the big magazine clips. These are people who I would otherwise describe as rational, reasonable, responsible people yet they're jumping on this "slippery slope" bandwagon. Then they turn around and blame Dems for having a knee-jerk emotional reaction leading to this type of ban. In reality, it's the gun enthusiasts who are getting so emotional over their hobby they're calling for no restrictions on deadly weapons! It makes absolutely no sense to me.
keeperofthekeys 18th-Jan-2013 03:03 pm (UTC)
Yeah, I don't even know what they think they'd be using those clips for anyway. Many gun ranges don't allow rapid fire, and they limit how many rounds you can have in your clip. There are private ranges, my parents have their own range on their property, but I've never felt any sort of intense need to load up with a 30 round clip.

There are competitions that use 30-round clips, but I'm pretty sure these people aren't all competitive shooters. Maybe it's all entitlement. They believe they should be able to have these things so they need to have them.
nikoel 18th-Jan-2013 03:19 pm (UTC)
Yeah, I think it's entitlement plus hobbying, which i totally get having a hobby and wanting to collect as much cool shit as you can within that hobby, but if these people are really as reasonable as they claim, they won't have a problem complying to reasonable restrictions after multiple legal gun owners shoot up a bunch of people. There's all this talk about 'criminals' getting the guns illegally, but these mass shootings were done by people who procured their guns following their local laws. It's just so infuriating that gun enthusiasts are digging their heels in, blaming the problem on "mental health" and saying that it's not their problem. SMH.
angelofdeath275 18th-Jan-2013 03:26 pm (UTC)
buying assault rifles in droves in a panic.

in a panic.
celtic_thistle 18th-Jan-2013 09:23 pm (UTC)
My dad teaches firearm safety and he has been SWAMPED with work lately.
nikoel 18th-Jan-2013 03:27 am (UTC)
Like, seriously? How is that even possible? Not one person with any semblance of power has uttered any such thing. Ugh!!
zhiva_the_mage 18th-Jan-2013 09:18 am (UTC)
wouldn't be a bad thing, I think.
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