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TThe National Rifle Association has obtained a Department of Justice memo calling for national gun registration and confiscation. The nine page “cursory summary” on current gun control initiatives was not officially released by the Obama administration.
The DOJ memo (downloadable here as a PDF) states the administration “believes that a gun ban will not work without MANDATORY GUN CONFISCATION,” ..., and thinks universal background checks “won’t work without requiring national gun registration.”
The memo stands in stark contrast to the administration’s public stance on so-called gun control. White House spokesman Jay Carney said last month that laws proposed by Obama would not “take away a gun from a single law-abiding American.”
It pointed out that banning high capacity ammunition clips would be ineffective due to the fact there is a large number of them already in circulation.
A Justice Department official said the memo is an unfinished review of gun violence research and does not represent administration policy.
Originally posted by Hopechest
Its important to note that the National Institute of Justice is only a research and evaluation arm of the Department of Justice and have no responsibility to recommend actions on policy.
Their job is to be given a task and provide data on a specific area or multiple areas of interest. Nothing more.
It similar to the office of statistics, they just provide raw data when asked to. I assume that these questions they are providing data for are simply part of a larger request on multiple scenarios concerning gun control and simply taken out of context.
Basically if you are trying to decide on what programs would best reduce gun violence you would want to put everything on the table, collect all the known data for each option, and make the decision you think is best based on factual evidence.
I have no doubt they asked the NIJ to evaluate how much gun violence would continue to occur if nothing was done about it also.
Its just them collecting data.
Originally posted by hawkiye
Well it's not like we did not ready know this however there is no doubt now and the naysayer can no longer claim it's not true. This has been the agenda all along and anyone with a brain in their head paying attention could see it for miles
A Justice Department official said the memo is an unfinished review of gun violence research and does not represent administration policy.
Originally posted by Benevolent Heretic
I see Hopechest beat me to it.
reply to post by hawkiye
Originally posted by hawkiye
Well it's not like we did not ready know this however there is no doubt now and the naysayer can no longer claim it's not true. This has been the agenda all along and anyone with a brain in their head paying attention could see it for miles
Did you read the memo? It's a list of possible prevention strategies, not an argument in favor of any particular one. It's a summary of a study, showing effectiveness and facts about the possible implementation of the various strategies.
A Justice Department official said the memo is an unfinished review of gun violence research and does not represent administration policy.
Just because you and Alex think they're lying, doesn't mean they're lying.edit on 2/24/2013 by Benevolent Heretic because: (no reason given)
Originally posted by Hopechest
Its important to note that the National Institute of Justice is only a research and evaluation arm of the Department of Justice and have no responsibility to recommend actions on policy.
Their job is to be given a task and provide data on a specific area or multiple areas of interest. Nothing more.
It similar to the office of statistics, they just provide raw data when asked to. I assume that these questions they are providing data for are simply part of a larger request on multiple scenarios concerning gun control and simply taken out of context.
Basically if you are trying to decide on what programs would best reduce gun violence you would want to put everything on the table, collect all the known data for each option, and make the decision you think is best based on factual evidence.
I have no doubt they asked the NIJ to evaluate how much gun violence would continue to occur if nothing was done about it also.
Its just them collecting data.
Originally posted by AnIntellectualRedneck
Even though I am skeptical of everything on infowars, I will say that I've seen enough to think that the ultimate goal is to confiscate most, if not all, weapons.
The question that keeps popping up in my head, though, is this: Why?
That's the 64 million dollar question. Why now?
Originally posted by Tardacus
During their brainstorming sessions do they normal put illegal suggestions on the table?