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Federal Gun Control Requires IT Overhaul
New submitter Matt Slaybaugh writes "John Foley at InformationWeek has an editorial saying that the missing piece in the new gun control legislation is adequate data management. 'President Obama introduced 23 executive orders on Jan. 16 aimed at reducing gun violence through a combination of tougher regulation and enforcement, research, training, education and attention to mental healthcare. Several of the proposed actions involve better information sharing, including requiring federal agencies to make relevant data available to the FBI's background check system and easing legal barriers that prevent states from contributing data to that system.' But concrete plans are needed now to improve the current poor system of data collection and sharing. Federal CIO Steven VanRoekel's Digital Government Strategy, introduced in May, 'defines an IT architecture and processes for sharing digitized content securely, using Web APIs and with attention to protecting privacy. ... Unfortunately, on top of the data quality issues identified by the White House, and the FBI's and ATF's outdated IT systems, there's a lack of transparency about the systems used to enforce federal gun-control laws.'"
This has absolutely zero to do with "entitlement to personal safety" (where the fuck are you even getting these words?). If somebody is in danger, we, as a society, protect him/her. If you call the police and say: "somebody is trying to kill me", you will have a whole bunch of police units coming to you to protect you. See witness protection, for examples.
The president lives under a constant threat, because he is a political figure and there are a lot of violent organizations or just lunatics who would love to kill him just for kicks. This has absolutely zero to do with who exactly he is (Obama, Bush, Clinton -- whoever) and has everything to do with him being a president. This, obviously, calls for more security, than your average Joe Schmo needs.
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is Ammunition (and ammunition making equipment, like reloaders) control. Nowhere does any of these proposals address that. Simply put, a gun with no bullets is as deadly is a brick. And if it was as hard to buy bullets as it is to buy prescription narcotics, then we would not have nearly the number of gun related deaths we have now.
Republican leadership = Idiocracy
What the fuck do kings have to do with it?
It's because lots of people want to kill the President (like 90% of the people in the south). How many people want to kill you?
Sorry but people in the public eye are big fat targets, whereas, nobody knows or gives a shit about you.
Are agnostics skeptical of unicorns too?
Apparently my 9 year old is able to wrap his head around these simple concepts far better than politicians.
After listening to Sen. McCain's 10 minute, kindergarten-esque rant at the Hagel confirmation hearings, regarding something Chuck said about Israel some 14 years ago, I'm shamefully unsurprised.
I've met toddlers with more maturity and sense than the geriatric lunatics running this asylum.
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What I, and most other gun owners, have a problem with is this person who is so heavily protected by guns (paid for by our taxes) telling us that we have no right to protect ourselves with guns.
You are a fucking moron. You know why you are a moron? Because he never said that. And no, gun control is not the same as no guns for anyone. Quite frankly, your insistence on this strawman is really disturbing.
Those who can, do. Those who can't, sue.
Is it any surprise that the Federal govt. has knee-jerked and not thought through the repercussions, or the real-world applicability of their solutions?
What's shocking is that you think that this announcement is honest, or that they haven't thought through the consequences.
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