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jimmy the one

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3. obama's executive order 14 on gun control research
Mon Jul 6, 2015, 11:42 AM
Jul 2015

Wasn't gun violence research included in Obama's list of maybe 23 gun control initiatives he did by executive order or executive actions (slt)? let me google.

pardon using right wing forbes for source, article otherwise is typical right wing propagunda: 23 executive orders/Obama: 14. Issue a Presidential Memorandum directing the Centers for Disease Control to research the causes and prevention of gun violence. http://www.forbes.com/sites/rickungar/2013/01/16/here-are-the-23-executive-orders-on-gun-safety-signed-today-by-the-president/

Evidently the House of unRepresentatives can do away with executive orders?

In 2013, some 34,000 Americans died from gunshot wounds. So Takeaway Washington Correspondent Todd Zwillich decided to ask House Speaker John Boehner why his party is trying to block research on gun violence.
“The CDC is there to look at diseases that need to be dealt with to protect public health,” Boehner said.. “I’m sorry, but a gun is not a disease. Guns don’t kill people — people do. And when people use weapons in a horrible way, we should condemn the actions of the individual and not blame the action on some weapon.”


Double double talk talk from a john boner.


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