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http://news.yahoo.com/psychiatrist-treated-accused-colorado-gunman-sued-over-rampage-201956610.html
A victims spouse is sueing the doctor who knew the Colorado movie shooting suspect was dangerous and did nothing. My above point # 3. would have stopped the Colorado rampage!
Now, the gun control topic is very complex. Here is my opinion on facts I know, and have gotten around this issue:
1. Background checks should be for EVERY gun transaction period. Gun Shows can hire a FFL dealer to do the private sale background checks. Passing down thru the immediate family can be outside of this but all other transactions have to be done. Especially the internet private sales which have come to light how much of that is done. If not done, a felony, federal felony with jail time that doesn’t allow a plea deal.
2. The local/state/feds should enforce the current laws on the book around firearms. 88,000 people lied on the form to get a gun, a very small percentage of them were prosecuted, why? Go after them with an iron fist.
3. Make sure all mental illness databases are tied to the background checks ASAP. Also make it a felony for a doctor NOT to report a person that has a mental Illness to that database to safe guard the public.
4. (Sorry this one I do believe in ALOT) If a person living in the household is deemed to have a mental illness, then that household has to remove the firearms from it. Have them stored somewhere else but not in the home
5. Its easy to lockup the firearms, it’s possible to have the right ability to access a firearm quickly in case of a bad situation. I have shown and recommended these alot. But the firearm is STILL locked up.
6. Any firearm that is stolen must be reported to the police in less than 12 hours, if not, a serious criminal charge should follow. A number of stolen firearms are never reported
7. Take existing laws on illegal firearm use, take those penalties and really max them out. Illegal use of a firearm in a crime mandatory 10 year with no plea deal. If there is a victim, then add another 10 years mandatory. Make it very very painful to the criminal when they use a firearm illegally.
I am not in favor to have a feel good law banning things, never worked and will never work, but my 7 points above CAN/WILL save lives for sure. Reduce gun violence as well as protect lawful gun owners and the 2nd amendment. Look at the last 6 mass shootings; look at the person who did it, not just the firearms. A number of my points would have STOPPED them way before they did their deeds. Could they have found other means to destroy innocent lives, possibly, but looking at the facts that show the path they went, my 7 points would have been life savors.
Too bad politics is in the middle of this discussion. All sides, the dems, repubs, NRA and anti gun folks, read the 7 points, they will work. They can make a difference in the large cities as well. Time to look at this from a different view, look at the root of the problem.
We closed our mental illness facilities, defund mental illness work and let these folks walk the streets hoping the drugs we give them work with no side affects. We really need to re-visit this ASAP.
Also smart reporting with facts will make this complex issue easier to understand, easier to apply some smart rules/laws that can help make our society that much better but still allow people to exercise their rights legally and enjoy them.
Spain and Greece are financially broke; Sweden's economy is sinking as every nation in the world. When jobs go bye bye, there is not enough revenue to cover health care costs. Bush? really? In the US, based on how our economy is built, how our laws are written, a national healthcare would never make it. If you like those countries, please go there, but here in the USA we have to make sure we don’t kill jobs, hurt our economy on a law 99% of those who voted for it NEVER READ IT! I have read it, it’s written to hurt the insurance companies but let doctors and hospitals to still charge for items 100 times over what they cost. Also, that law will never create jobs as businesses cut hours and or people to pay for either the penalty or the insurance.
So many businesses are seeing that if you cut employees hours, it’s a way to bypass this law; even I am now considering doing that in my business. Why not, I can keep the front door open, don’t lay off my hard working employees and let our great savior “the president” saves us all. Not sure how the government is going to pay for all the subsidiaries if companies bypass the law by lowering peoples hours, they make less taxable income, spend less income on things and basically stalling out our economy. Or worse more people get laid off thus more of a burden on them and our government.
Let see if you can understand this, it cost an average business around 500 to 1000 a month for an employee’s healthcare coverage. Ok, following? That’s anywhere from 6000 to 12,000 a year per employee. So here we are, bad economy, monthly revenue is down 20 to 30% a month. Where do I get the funding to keep up insurance for my people?
Well:
1. cut their hours from 40 to 30 per week, they keep their jobs but make less per hour, no healthcare coverage, the 10 hours less per week can be 120 to 180 dollars a week per employee checks lost
2. Lay off 15% of the staff, keep the remaining at 40 hours but force those remaining to work harder, do more with less, but they have heath insurance coverage till my monthly revenue goes down another 5% to 10% and then I cut their hours to keep them working but hire 2 more people at 30 or less hours a week and give up healthcare coverage
3. I drop all of my employee’s health insurance coverage, oh no…. Well guess what, if I would to ever do that, don’t want too, but if forced too to stay open, I would save a ton of money. Whether is 6k to 12 k a year for me to pay for the healthcare coverage per employee, a penalty of 2k is all I have to pay per employee per year if I drop their coverage. I come out ahead, no lay offs, no cut hours, pay the small penalty and have our government subsidize all the health care coverage for my employees. But there is a huge catch. If all companies or at least 65% do this, there are NOT enough funds to cover everyone, sorry cant just print more money, so where do we get that revenue? No answer huh, we are talking billions here.
We need to make sure healthcare costs go down, but hitting 1 sector of that huge area is a bad thing, all costs across the board need to be lowered/managed. Then Americans can afford the best healthcare in the world and not go bankrupt.
Too bad our elected officials can’t think this way. Sad huh
1. Likeability of the candidate
2. Ethnic background
3. Negative ads, ads picking and choosing words/phrases
4. Certain candidates making very very poor comments (deserving to lose)
The issues, were so far down the list its sick. Neither candidate really took to the issues, explained their stance, explained their plan for the future. It’s that simple, so simple it’s stupid.
Great, you are thrilled; here are some points to ponder:
When the holiday help is no longer needed in Jan/Feb 2013, where will the unemployment be
Everyone’s taxes go up next year – the Bush Tax cuts will not be renewed, small businesses will be hurt badly, child credit gets cut in half
Healthcare costs go up, Medicare patients will have to find doctors willing to take them since doctors have stopped taking care of Medicare patients due to the huge cut in payments, and as it has proven true, the Medicare panel is letting people die by denying coverage (seen it first hand, talked to people first hand whose mom was rejected by that panel to receive chemo due to her age and was not cost effective)
companies cut peoples work hours to not pay for Healthcare Insurance for their employees (now where will that money come from to sub people who need health insurance, also the costs at hospitals and doctors offices have gone up, why?) and that means less taxable income, less money for people to save and spend
Just remember last night. If the President is this countries leader, he needs to find that middle road and force the other side to come to it, not by the negative things he has done in the last 2 years. Otherwise all of us, yes all of us, not just the dems or the repub, all of us will face worse times. This is fact, this is right NOW. so cheer, cry, what ever, but reality is coming folks, and coming like a Huge Mac truck right at us. Next year can be good or real bad.
As for the election, lets see the job numbers in Jan and Feb 2013 to see if the boost the president got is really there, not just holiday help. Also the companies who threaten to do layoffs due to the results of this election, lets see if they do that.