Obama's "gun-control" will not lower crime

"#1: This "gun-control" push is going to cost American taxpayers A LOT OF MONEY, A HUGE AMOUNT! And it will all be wasted. All it will do is put this country more in debt!!"The resolution is whether or not Obama's 23 executive orders regarding gun control will reduce crime, not whether or not it will cost money...."#2: If all of his 23 orders are passed then it will still will NOT lower violence. Look up how putting countless regulations on guns did for crime in Chicago"The regulations in Chicago revolved around a handgun ban. None of the 23 executive orders authorizes any kind of ban on handguns, or any kind of gun for that matter. ==========================================================================Theres a lot of confusion among people about what the actual 23 executive orders are, so heres a list of all 23 of them. 1. Issue a Presidential Memorandum to require federal agencies to make relevant data available to the federal background check system.2. Address unnecessary legal barriers, particularly relating to the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act, 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.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. Issue a Presidential Memorandum to require federal law enforcement to trace guns recovered in criminal investigations.10. Release a DOJ 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 technologies16. 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.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.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.http://www.slate.com...==========================================================================Out of this entire list, - Numbers 1,2,3,5, and 6 all have to do with strengthening background checks. - Number 4 is to review which categories of people arent allowed to own a gun and see if dangerous people are getting around it somehow. - Number 8 is to update standards for guns and reclassify what is safe and what isnt. - Numbers 9 and 10 are meant to help officials track down lost guns and trace guns found in crimes to their distributers to reign in the potential for more crime to occur - Number 11 is meant to hire a director for the agency meant to enforce gun control on a national level (there hasnt been a director in years for some reason) - Numbers 12, 18, and 19 are meant to train/hire schools and police officers to better respond to a shooter situation like what happened in Newton to at least limit the scope of a potential tragedy - Numbers 7 and 13 seem pretty useless to me in my opinion - Numbers 14 and 15 are meant to do research to report the effectiveness of multiple forms of gun control to utilize the most successful tactics on a national level. - And personally I have no idea how numbers 16, 20,21,22, and 23 are even related to gun violence==========================================================================Basically, Obama's 23 executive orders focuses primarily on 1) Strengthening background checks and penalties for lying on background checks, 2) Update who shouldnt be allowed to own a gun and update existing safety standards for guns 3) Make it easier to track down lost guns and trace guns used in crimes to their sources to limit more potential crime in the future, 4) Hire a director for the government agency meant to enforce gun control,5) Research the effectiveness of currently existing forms of gun controland 6) Allow schools and Police officers to be able to better respond to a shooter situation. There is plenty of evidence that background checks work:http://www.star-telegram.com...http://www.cnn.com...http://center4research.org...From the last source: "The researchers compared rates of gun-related suicides and homicides between areas where background checks were performed by local law enforcement agencies and areas where they were performed by the FBI between the years 2002 and 2004. They found that areas where background checks by local law enforcement agencies were required had 27% lower rates of gun-related suicides and 22% lower rates of gun-related murders" Background checks simply work.As for the other executive orders, the one that would aim to make it easier to track down lost guns could reduce crime by A) Preventing those lost guns from falling into the wrong handsB) Return those guns back to the law-abiding citizen (most guns are bought by ordinary people for self defense) which could in turn stop a potential mugging, kidnapping, burglary, etc. from occurring. The three meant to increase security at schools and train police officers to better handle a shooter situation would also help reduce crime by greatly reducing the potential damage a shooter could cause, and police officers in schools could potentially deter crimes being committed in schools that arent gun related as well. Thats all I got for now.