Saturday, January 9, 2016

3.2 Listen as the Crowd Would Sing, Now the Old King is Dead, Long Live the King

1. The position of the head of the Justice Department and the chief law enforcement officer of the United States; the principal legal officer who represents a country or a state in legal proceedings and gives legal advice to the government.

2. His executive actions may be challenged in court by some who claimed they would do so. Not getting legislation in the books also means that a President in the future who disagrees with him could unilaterally reverse Obama's actions. Also a congressional Republican also threatened to block funding for the Justice Department to stop the executive actions.


3. People can get guns if they buy them from private sellers, and through this method there is no background checks. Also the program that runs background checking does not have the resources it need to be efficient and thorough.

5. The private seller method. The program does not receive enough money to run itself efficiently. Also, the program has a loophole that says that if a case is halted, since it is not thorough whether a person should have a gun, then it is given a 3 day wait period for the fbi to get to it. If this fails to happen, the person in question can go ahead and buy a gun... We could see how this could create some problems. Also, since the system does not have enough money to run its on background checks on individuals thoroughly, it relies on other thing such as state records. If the state does not have records on an individual, this can just fly by the system as someone with no history of mental illness.

6. His executive actions would not close the loopholes, but they do take steps to tighten current restrictions on firearms and ensure that federal officials can actually enforce the law that's on the books.


7. Mostly the NRA and strong gun advocates who more times than not will be with the NRA.


8. Washington state and Oregon passed law ensuring all guns have to go through background checks, including those sold between individuals. This is a tightening on restrictions. Some Democratic states have tightened restrictions and some Republican states have loosened restrictions.


9. It would take decades for the impact to be felt.


10. To have a more immediate impact, the US would have to find a way to quickly remove the number of guns in circulation.

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