Gun rights

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Executive Orders exist because as the President he can give orders. It's part of the three branch system. It's the executive branch.

Anyway, too much is made of the mental health angle. Just because someone shoots a lot of people does NOT mean they are mentally ill. SOME shooters are mentally ill, but they are more likely to be completely competent. Jared Loughner was schizophrenic and may have benefitted from mental health services, but there is no proof that the Newtown shooter had any history of mental illness whatsoever. Not only is it problematic for people to even recognize that people are mentally ill, once they have been identified, practitioners have a TERRIBLE track record of determining whether a mentally ill patient is prone to violence. If the patient doesn't specifically come out and say, "I'm going to hurt myself or kill others," it's a crapshoot. The act of shooting people is not a mental illness in and of itself, as much as people would like to think it is. Owning a gun is a more likely indicator of gun violence than mental illness. Saying a discussion of mental illness is more important than a discussion of guns is ridiculous.