Wednesday, January 16, 2013

BARACK OBAMA: "CONEJO BLAS... ¿A DÓNDE VAS...?" O ENTRE LO MÁS Y LO MENOS, O VICEVERSA...


BARACK OBAMA: "CONEJO BLAS... ¿A DÓNDE VAS...?" O ENTRE LO MÁS Y LO MENOS, O VICEVERSA...


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fZTXI0uKDhE

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Hace tiempo, sin ánimo de infundir temor aseveré que una resortera puede representar peligro para un pájaro, mas un ave potencialmente puede ser letal para quienes tripulan un aeronave ergo, para los (las) pasajeros (as)... Nunca es bueno minimizar ciertos detalles...


La anarquía y las armas: potencial condena a muerte sobre la humanidad...*

http://www.ccardenass.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=173:ino-ino-definitivo-y-para-siempre-a-la-pena-de-muerte&catid=35:pronunciamientos&Itemid=56


It is not advisable to be pessimist and fatalistic, but do not forget Fukushima's tragedy...


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rvVs0muI-gU


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kntzQiaFzOQ
 
 
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Barack Obama@BarackObama"We should get tougher on people who buy guns with the express purpose of turning around and selling them to criminals." —President Obama Details 
40sGood job,but there are conflicts of interest among who supported some legislators in their campaigns. fideiius.blogspot.com/2013/01/barack
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Dear readers, let me ask you: Who will challenge the votes of the legislators who were financially supported in their political campaigns by the National Rifle Association (NRA)...?

Without doubt, there are a severe conflicts of interest because of some "dirty hands"...** This will be a constitutional issue, too ...

http://www.house.gov/content/learn/legislative_process/

http://www.rcfp.org/browse-media-law-resources/news-media-law/news-media-and-law-summer-2011/legislators-votes-are-not-p

http://www.theatlanticwire.com/politics/2013/01/whats-nra-really-packing/61141/

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DzjqzL-X2sc


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OjrthOPLAKM


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R1JI7aMtazY


http://www.mybitforchange.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/Malala2.jpg


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=opixexdz4PY


"We the people of the United States, in order to form a more perfect union, establish justice, insure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare, and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America."

http://www.law.cornell.edu/constitution/preamble


Do not forget, they had a dream...
 

Andrea Bocelli interpreta 'Te extraño', de Armando Manzanero.
 

I Went After Guns. Obama Can, Too.

I was elected prime minister in early 1996, leading a center-right coalition. Virtually every nonurban electoral district in the country — where gun ownership was higher than elsewhere — sent a member of my coalition to Parliament.
Six weeks later, on April 28, 1996, Martin Bryant, a psychologically disturbed man, used a semiautomatic Armalite rifle and a semiautomatic SKS assault weapon to kill 35 people in a murderous rampage in Port Arthur, Tasmania.
After this wanton slaughter, I knew that I had to use the authority of my office to curb the possession and use of the type of weapons that killed 35 innocent people. I also knew it wouldn’t be easy.
Our challenges were different from America’s. Australia is an even more intensely urban society, with close to 60 percent of our people living in large cities. Our gun lobby isn’t as powerful or well-financed as the National Rifle Association in the United States. Australia, correctly in my view, does not have a Bill of Rights, so our legislatures have more say than America’s over many issues of individual rights, and our courts have less control. Also, we have no constitutional right to bear arms. (After all, the British granted us nationhood peacefully; the United States had to fight for it.)
Because Australia is a federation of states, the national government has no control over gun ownership, sale or use, beyond controlling imports. Given our decentralized system of government, I could reduce the number of dangerous firearms only by persuading the states to enact uniform laws totally prohibiting the ownership, possession and sale of all automatic and semiautomatic weapons while the national government banned the importation of such weapons.
To make this plan work, there had to be a federally financed gun buyback scheme. Ultimately, the cost of the buyback was met by a special one-off tax imposed on all Australians. This required new legislation and was widely accepted across the political spectrum. Almost 700,000 guns were bought back and destroyed — the equivalent of 40 million guns in the United States.
City dwellers supported our plan, but there was strong resistance by some in rural Australia. Many farmers resented being told to surrender weapons they had used safely all of their lives. Penalizing decent, law-abiding citizens because of the criminal behavior of others seemed unfair. Many of them had been lifelong supporters of my coalition and felt bewildered and betrayed by these new laws. I understood their misgivings. Yet I felt there was no alternative.
The fundamental problem was the ready availability of high-powered weapons, which enabled people to convert their murderous impulses into mass killing. Certainly, shortcomings in treating mental illness and the harmful influence of violent video games and movies may have played a role. But nothing trumps easy access to a gun. It is easier to kill 10 people with a gun than with a knife.
Passing gun-control laws was a major challenge for my coalition partner: the rural, conservative National Party. All of its members held seats in nonurban areas. It was also very hard for the state government of Queensland, in Australia’s northeast, where the National Party was dominant, and where the majority of the population was rural.
The leaders of the National Party, as well as the premier of Queensland, courageously supported my government’s decision, despite the electoral pain it caused them. Within a year, a new populist and conservative political party, the One Nation Party, emerged and took many votes from our coalition in subsequent state and federal elections; one of its key policies was the reversal of the gun laws.
For a time, it seemed that certain states might refuse to enact the ban. But I made clear that my government was willing to hold a nationwide referendum to alter the Australian Constitution and give the federal government constitutional power over guns. Such a referendum would have been expensive and divisive, but it would have passed. And all state governments knew this.
In the end, we won the battle to change gun laws because there was majority support across Australia for banning certain weapons. And today, there is a wide consensus that our 1996 reforms not only reduced the gun-related homicide rate, but also the suicide rate. The Australian Institute of Criminology found that gun-related murders and suicides fell sharply after 1996. The American Journal of Law and Economics found that our gun buyback scheme cut firearm suicides by 74 percent. In the 18 years before the 1996 reforms, Australia suffered 13 gun massacres — each with more than four victims — causing a total of 102 deaths. There has not been a single massacre in that category since 1996.
Few Australians would deny that their country is safer today as a consequence of gun control.
John Howard was prime minister of Australia from 1996 to 2007.  

"Editorials: The Gun Challenge


This series of editorials looks at the epidemic of violence in the United States and explores the possible solutions.


Articles

Newest First | Oldest First
Page: 1 | 2 | Next >>


Gun Reform for a Generation
After years of sorrowful declarations and inaction from American presidents, President Obama steps up.
January 17, 2013, Thursday

The Bid to Stop Gun Trafficking
A national crackdown on the devastating flow of illegal guns is long overdue.
January 8, 2013, Tuesday

A Broken System for Tracking Guns
The agency charged with stopping illegal firearm sales needs leadership and new rules
December 31, 2012, Monday

The Deadly Fantasy of Assault Weapons
The illusions peddled by rifle makers put deadly power in the wrong hands.
December 29, 2012, Saturday

A Tougher Assault Weapons Ban
A proposal from Senator Dianne Feinstein would provide a far more effective ban than the loophole-riddled law that lapsed in 2004.
December 28, 2012, Friday

The Scourge of Concealed Weapons
The federal government can push back against the vigilantism craze in many states, where carrying a concealed handgun in public is increasingly possible.
December 23, 2012, Sunday

The N.R.A. Crawls From Its Hidey Hole
Wayne LaPierre, the N.R.A.’s vice president, accuses everyone but his group of being responsible for the Newtown massacre.
December 22, 2012, Saturday

National Rifle (Selling) Association
The firearm industry profits when the N.R.A. aggressively lobbies against sensible gun regulations.
December 21, 2012, Friday

It’s the Guns
President Obama’s call for ideas to make the nation safer from guns needs to focus on weapons, not abstractions or distractions.
December 20, 2012, Thursday

The Yawning Loophole in the Gun Laws
To strengthen the country’s porous gun laws, Congress must subject all buyers to background checks.
December 19, 2012, Wednesday"
 
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"President Obama’s plan to protect our kids and help reduce gun violence in America

President Obama has announced his plan to better protect our children and our communities by reducing gun violence in America.
Most gun owners use their guns legally and responsibly, and the President strongly believes in an individual right to bear arms, but we need to take action to better protect our children and communities from tragic mass shootings like the one in Newtown, Connecticut.
The President’s plan includes:
  • Closing background check loopholes to keep guns out of dangerous hands
  • Banning military-style assault weapons and high-capacity magazines and taking other common sense steps
  • Making schools safer
  • Increasing access to mental health services
President Obama asked Vice President Biden to work with members of this administration, Congress, law enforcement, teachers, parents, sportsmen, faith leaders, mental health experts, and other organizations and individuals to come up with a set of concrete policy proposals. While no set of laws will guarantee an end to gun violence, the President's plan includes 23 new executive actions to make immediate progress, as well as critical steps that Congress should take.
Measures Congress should pass
Alongside the steps that the administration is taking immediately, there are a series of measures that President Obama is calling on Congress to pass as soon as possible, including:
  • Eliminating loopholes and requiring background checks for all gun sales
  • Reinstating the prohibition on high-capacity magazines
  • Renewing and strengthening the ban on assault weapons
  • Creating serious penalties for gun traffickers
  • Getting armor-piercing bullets off the streets by prohibiting the possession and transfer of this dangerous ammunition
  • Keep 15,000 cops on the street
  • Further research on gun violence
  • Help schools develop and implement comprehensive emergency management plans
  • Removing restrictions that require ATF to authorize importation of dangerous weapons simply because of their age

23 executive actions the President has already signed
Closing background check loopholes
1. Require federal agencies to make relevant data available to the federal background check system
2. Address unnecessary legal barriers 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
Common sense steps to reduce gun violence
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. Require federal law enforcement to trace guns recovered in criminal investigations
10. Release a DOJ (Department of Justice) 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
Making schools safer
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
Increasing access to mental health services
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
You can find out more about the President's plan at whitehouse.gov

http://www.barackobama.com/gun-reform
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"EU: ¿armas bajo control?

Un mes después de la masacre en la escuela Sandy Hook de Newtown, Connecticut –donde fallecieron una veintena de niños y seis adultos–, el presidente de Estados Unidos, Barack Obama, anunció que enviará al Congreso un paquete de reformas legales para controlar la venta de armas de fuego en ese país. Entre otras medidas, la iniciativa presidencial incluye la prohibición de vender rifles de asalto –prescrita en 2004– y de cargadores con más de 10 municiones, así como la certificación de identidad y de los antecedentes de todos los compradores particulares de armas de fuego.
Tales elementos bastarían para calificar el plan del presidente estadunidense de intento positivo y sin precedente en materia de control de armas de fuego. Con todo, la iniciativa de Obama omite un punto fundamental: el problema de la posesión masiva de armas de fuego por particulares estadunidenses no se origina únicamente en una legislación permisiva que ha posibilitado la proliferación descontrolada de tales artefactos; el fenómeno es impulsado también por poderosos factores económicos, políticos y culturales. Dicho fenómeno, en consecuencia, debe ser acotado y abordado en todos esos frentes.
Sin soslayar el vasto poder de cabildeo de organizaciones como la Asociación Nacional del Rifle –que se aferra a pregonar la libertad absoluta de poseer armas de fuego y mantiene estrechos vínculos con el Partido Republicano–, tales agrupaciones no son sino la cara más visible de una amplia red de intereses que tiene como eje articulador a la industria armamentista, la cual ostenta un enorme poder político y una vasta presencia en la economía de Estados Unidos. Dichos intereses, por añadidura, tienen a su favor un entorno social y cultural en el que históricamente ha prevalecido una fascinación por las armas de fuego y en el que la posesión de éstas es vista como sinónimo de estatus y el ejercicio de un derecho individual irrenunciable.
Ante tal perspectiva, es claro que cualquier acción gubernamental orientada a controlar la comercialización y posesión de armas de fuego en Estados Unidos quedará incompleta en tanto no incorpore una política educativa orientada a concientizar a la población en general –y a las generaciones más jóvenes en particular– de que la posesión descontrolada de esos artefactos no es sinónimo de seguridad ni de libertad, sino un signo de atraso civilizatorio y una amenaza constante de violencia y muerte.
Por lo demás, es necesario que el gobierno de Washington revise y acote el peso político y la proyección económica de su industria armamentista, que ha sido factor decisivo no sólo para multiplicar el número de muertes violentas en ese país, sino también para llevarlo a aventuras bélicas desastrosas, como las emprendidas por el gobierno de George W. Bush en Afganistán e Irak, e incluso para atizar escenarios de barbarie delictiva como el que ha ensangrentado a nuestro país en el último sexenio, los cuales representan una enorme oportunidad de negocio para los fabricantes y vendedores de armas de fuego.
En suma, en ausencia de acciones y propósitos gubernamentales para atender las dimensiones económicas y culturales del fenómeno comentado, el plan de Obama aparece como un paliativo y como una medida publicitaria para encauzar en favor de su gobierno la exasperación social por la repetición de episodios trágicos como el que tuvo lugar a fines del año pasado en Connecticut."

http://www.jornada.unam.mx/2013/01/17/edito


Presenta su plan para el control de ese mercado

Asociación del Rifle: es un hipócrita elitista

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Eligio Del Awiizotl@EligioAwiizotl
ConflictOf interest:Who will challenge the votes of the legislators who were supported by NRA in their campaigns? fideiius.blogspot.com/2013/01/barack
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BO GunControlProposalsUnveiled,MarkingBiggestLegislative Effort In A Generation via fideiius.blogspot.com/2013/01/barack
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Eligio Del Awiizotl@EligioAwiizotl

http://fideiius.blogspot.com/2011/05/un-ya-basta-rusia-estados-unidos.html

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3246178/

http://law.justia.com/lawsearch?query=Fast%20and%20Furious

http://www.demandaplan.org/
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