Politics & Rants

The Furer's Edicts.

Our Dear Leader has listed his "23 point plan:"

1. Issue a Presidential Memorandum to require federal agencies to make relevant data available to the federal background check system.

2. Address unnecessary legal barriers, particularly relating to the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act, that may prevent states from making information available to the background check system.

3. Improve incentives for states to share information with the background check system.

4. Direct the Attorney General to review categories of individuals prohibited from having a gun to make sure dangerous people are not slipping through the cracks.

5. Propose rulemaking to give law enforcement the ability to run a full background check on an individual before returning a seized gun.

6. Publish a letter from ATF to federally licensed gun dealers providing guidance on how to run background checks for private sellers.

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

8. Review safety standards for gun locks and gun safes (Consumer Product Safety Commission).

9. Issue a Presidential Memorandum to require federal law enforcement to trace guns recovered in criminal investigations.

10. Release a DOJ report analyzing information on lost and stolen guns and make it widely available to law enforcement.

11. Nominate an ATF director.

12. Provide law enforcement, first responders, and school officials with proper training for active shooter situations.

13. Maximize enforcement efforts to prevent gun violence and prosecute gun crime.

14. Issue a Presidential Memorandum directing the Centers for Disease Control to research the causes and prevention of gun violence.

15. Direct the Attorney General to issue a report on the availability and most effective use of new gun safety technologies and challenge the private sector to develop innovative technologies.

16. Clarify that the Affordable Care Act does not prohibit doctors asking their patients about guns in their homes.

17. Release a letter to health care providers clarifying that no federal law prohibits them from reporting threats of violence to law enforcement authorities.

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

19. Develop model emergency response plans for schools, houses of worship and institutions of higher education.

20. Release a letter to state health officials clarifying the scope of mental health services that Medicaid plans must cover.

21. Finalize regulations clarifying essential health benefits and parity requirements within ACA exchanges.

22. Commit to finalizing mental health parity regulations.

23. Launch a national dialogue led by Secretaries Sebelius and Duncan on mental health.


We are having our resident lawyer, scholar, evil-black-hearted-assault-weapon-owner, and resident patriot J.M.B. examine where these delightful laws could take us, and later on today we shall present his findings.

Update I: The Purveyor of Hemp Rope and Streetlights Chimes in:

Courtesy of J.M.B., our resident legal-eagle, we have some positively delightful projections on the sort of utopia our God-King wishes construct for us feeble peasants:

1. Issue a Presidential Memorandum to require federal agencies to make relevant data available to the federal background check system.

- What this means:
This will set the stage for medical records getting reviewed by the various agencies of the federal government.

2. Address unnecessary legal barriers, particularly relating to the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act, that may prevent states from making information available to the background check system.

- What this means:
A: Remove state barriers to sharing medical records with the various agencies of the federal government.
B: Opening a path for insurance companies to require special plans for gun owners. Sounds expensive.

3. Improve incentives for states to share information with the background check system.

- What this means:
Bribe states to provide medical records to the various agencies of the federal government. Wavers, grants, you name it - they'll use tax-dollars creatively.

4. Direct the Attorney General to review categories of individuals prohibited from having a gun to make sure dangerous people are not slipping through the cracks.

- What this means:
All that information they will be collecting in sections 2-3? This will be used to part as many people as possible from their second amendment privileges.

5. Propose rule-making to give law enforcement the ability to run a full background check on an individual before returning a seized gun.

- What this means:
If the authorities take possession of a weapon, they can check medical records to discover reasons to never return it.

6. Publish a letter from ATF to federally licensed gun dealers providing guidance on how to run background checks for private sellers.

- What this means:
"Encourage" the sporting goods chains and big-box stores to consult these newly collected records for reasons to deny a sale. Expect "Guidance" to become "Require" shortly after the next shooting.

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

- What this means:
Your tax dollars will be used to manufacture a publicly funded Anti-NRA.

8. Review safety standards for gun locks and gun safes (Consumer Product Safety Commission).

- What this means:
Lean on producers of gun locks and gun safes. This will make them more expensive. Recall that many states have regulations w/regards to weapon storage. The idea is to increase the up-front expense of owning a firearm.

9. Issue a Presidential Memorandum to require federal law enforcement to trace guns recovered in criminal investigations.

- What this means:
The various federal agencies will use this as an excuse to pilfer the records of FFL license holders when a weapon they sold is used in a crime. De-facto registration.

10. Release a DOJ report analyzing information on lost and stolen guns and make it widely available to law enforcement.

- What this means:
You lost your AR-15 in a tragic boating accident and reported it stolen? Now they can easily check if you are in violating USC, Title 18, Section 1001.

11. Nominate an ATF director.

- What this means:
I'm positive Obama will select a true champion of gun rights.

12. Provide law enforcement, first responders, and school officials with proper training for active shooter situations.

- What this means:
Unless they are going to arm groups 2-3, don't expect much here beyond suspensions for playing cowboys and Indians. It's not in their interest to meaningfully stop gun-violence.

13. Maximize enforcement efforts to prevent gun violence and prosecute gun crime.

- What this means:
Expect every trivial violation of federal gun law to be pursued with all the forgivness, mercy, compassion, and tenderness of a bull shark.

14. Issue a Presidential Memorandum directing the Centers for Disease Control to research the causes and prevention of gun violence.

- What this means:
Concoct a list of every possible medical condition, drug, or mental health issue that can be used as rational to deny sale of /seize weapons.

15. Direct the Attorney General to issue a report on the availability and most effective use of new gun safety technologies and challenge the private sector to develop innovative technologies.

- What this means:
Pressure to coerce firearm manufacturers into neutering products. May be a framework for mandatory regulations down the road. Might also be a womb for litigation should the companies ignore these "suggestions."

16. Clarify that the Affordable Care Act does not prohibit doctors asking their patients about guns in their homes.

- What this means:
Re-writing the Affordable Care Act to remove language inserted by Harry Reid w/regards to health records. This should not be possible through executive order. Unless congress will impeach, and senate will convict, will happen regardless.

17. Release a letter to health care providers clarifying that no federal law prohibits them from reporting threats of violence to law enforcement authorities.

- What this means:
Informing doctors they have permission to ignore the law. Should make for plenty of fun litigation down the road. Any Dr. taking this advice had better have insurance up to date and attorney on speed-dial.

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

- What this means:
Unless these "officers" are armed, consider them nothing more than feel-good C.Y.A anti-gun propagandists. As well as mandatory reporters if they can coax a child into talking about parental firearms.

19. Develop model emergency response plans for schools, houses of worship and institutions of higher education.

- What this means:
C.Y.A. Dog squat. Will provide a nice excuse to militarize the various federal agencies though. Expect more RFP's for Dept. Edu Remington 870's.

20. Release a letter to state health officials clarifying the scope of mental health services that Medicaid plans must cover.

- What this means:
Expand medical coverage to a positively dazzling number of mental health ailments. Which will be recorded, and used as a reason to deny/seize firearms.

21. Finalize regulations clarifying essential health benefits and parity requirements within ACA exchanges.

- What this means:
Provides a pretext to implement 1, 2, 3, 16, 17, 20, 23. Legality questionable. Will be challenged the second someone has proper standing. In several years.

22. Commit to finalizing mental health parity regulations.

- What this means:
See 21.

23. Launch a national dialogue led by Secretaries Sebelius and Duncan on mental health.

- What this means:
Demonize and propagandize a wide swath of mental issues, illnesses, and medications to squelch the outcry when they start disarming people.


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Un-fucking-believable. We shall EAGERLY await the no-doubt monstrous list of reasons our masters are going to concoct to strip us of our constitutionally incorporated civil rights.

To parrot that quisling sackless mewing quim Allahpundit, we shall ask an "exit question" of our own: "Did we just witness the end of mental health care for any 2nd amendment proponents?"

Sure as shit many of us here at Deth H.Q. will NEVER consider visiting a shrink again. Or a goddamned doctor for that matter. At least the kinds that won't accept payments in silver or cash under the table. The Police State just fucking deputized our health care providers.

We wonder... will the upgrade come with brown scrubs?