# Obama is planning to use Executive Orders for gun control. **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [January 9, 2013, 9:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obama-is-planning-to-use-executive-orders-for-gun-control/646673 "2013-01-09T21:29:19Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 7
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2013, 11:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obama-is-planning-to-use-executive-orders-for-gun-control/646673/121 "2013-01-17T11:30:52Z")
I keep reading #11 as “Nominate a goddamn ATF director!”. Isn’t this one of the perpetually-blocked appointments? > [@pullin](#): > > I was worried about exactly what the executive orders would be. Concerned enough that we sent another check this week to the NRA to help with their opposition. > > When the list finally came out, we ended up laughing and I actually got choked and had a coughing fit (Omigod! He’s going to increase dialogue! Watch out!). The wife opined maybe they’re hoping NRA members will be laughing so hard they choke on their cigars or something. 😛 > > I realize some of those could be problematic, but I’m no longer worried. The NRA’s probably right in their latest prediction. Nothing of significance is going to happen. And yet you sent the NRA money. I’m sure the NRA are laughing too. ---
**Author:** ![Lightnin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lightnin/32/180_2.png) [@Lightnin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lightnin)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2013, 11:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obama-is-planning-to-use-executive-orders-for-gun-control/646673/122 "2013-01-17T11:48:22Z")
Is anyone else surprised that people like **aceplace57** can’t find anything they \*specifically \*don’t like about the list of Executive Orders, but they’re still against it because of reasons like: > [@](#): > > Whats the ultimate goal behind them? Yeah, me neither. ---
**Author:** ![Rushgeekgirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rushgeekgirl/32/3715_2.png) [@Rushgeekgirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rushgeekgirl)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2013, 1:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obama-is-planning-to-use-executive-orders-for-gun-control/646673/123 "2013-01-17T13:51:56Z")
I’ve already heard this morning on FB that Obama has used gun control to push forward his evil Obamacare. It was alllll a trick, you see. ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2013, 1:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obama-is-planning-to-use-executive-orders-for-gun-control/646673/124 "2013-01-17T13:56:13Z")
_First they came for our guns, then they made us turn our heads and cough…_ ---
**Author:** ![DoctorJ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/doctorj/32/2904_2.png) [@DoctorJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DoctorJ)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2013, 10:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obama-is-planning-to-use-executive-orders-for-gun-control/646673/125 "2013-01-17T22:32:18Z")
> [@aceplace57](#): > > Three years from now there may be a big uproar over some of these orders. #16 could be misused. Is that question going to become a standard one on those medical papers we fill out at the Doctors? _Do you own guns? If yes, Please describe._ If you have the flu or a urinary track infection a question like that is intrusive. That question is only legitimate if you are seeing a psychiatrist or someone else in the mental health field. IMHO and even then only for potentially violent problems like schizophrenia. > > Like anything the intent and implementation is key with these orders. Does anyone want gun owner written on their medical chart in bright red letters? It is a standard question on my clinic’s history form (the one the patient fills out before he’s seen for the first time). The only time I ever even bring it up is if there are kids in the house. I know that every gun owner on the SDMB and every gun owner that they know is completely knowledgeable and responsible when it comes to securing a firearm. But a rather astonishing number of gun owners keep the loaded pistol from their kids by cleverly hiding it in the bedside table, or simply threating to whoop little Jayden if he goes in Daddy’s Forbidden Closet of Mystery. And those are the ones who have even give it some thought. I think it’s important for someone to be giving such people a little info. If someone leaves it blank, I don’t push it. And I’m sure one of these days when one of a patient’s kids shoots himself with the gun he didn’t tell me about, I’ll be sued for not discussing gun safety with him. ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2013, 12:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obama-is-planning-to-use-executive-orders-for-gun-control/646673/126 "2013-01-18T00:01:06Z")
> [@DoctorJ](#): > > It is a standard question on my clinic’s history form (the one the patient fills out before he’s seen for the first time). I intend no offense, but I believe that to be no more your business that whether or not a child car seat is used. ---
**Author:** ![OldGuy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/3bc359/32.png) [@OldGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OldGuy)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2013, 12:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obama-is-planning-to-use-executive-orders-for-gun-control/646673/127 "2013-01-18T00:33:00Z")
> [@carnivorousplant](#): > > I intend no offense, but I believe that to be no more your business that whether or not a child car seat is used. Then decline to answer it, but don’t get upset when someone points out there is no law against asking it. ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2013, 3:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obama-is-planning-to-use-executive-orders-for-gun-control/646673/128 "2013-01-19T03:55:59Z")
> [@OldGuy](#): > > Then decline to answer it, but don’t get upset when someone points out there is no law against asking it. Should my physician ask me that, I would be more inclined to point out that it is none of his Goddamned business and find another physician to take my money. 🙂 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obama-is-planning-to-use-executive-orders-for-gun-control/646673.md?page=6)