Did you get your email?

[Waco1959]

Hello --

Today President Obama announced a plan to help protect our kids and communities from gun violence. You're going to hear a lot about it, but I wanted to make sure you got a chance to get the facts, straight from me.

After hearing from Americans from across the political spectrum, we decided to focus on some key priorities: closing background check loopholes, banning military-style assault weapons, making our schools safer, and increasing access to mental health services.

The ideas we sent to President Obama are straightforward. Each of them honors the rights of law-abiding, responsible Americans to bear arms. Some of them will require action from Congress; the President is acting on others immediately. But they're all commonsense and will help make us a little safer.

Now is the time for all of us to act.

Read about the events that brought us to this point, learn about the plan we've proposed to help protect our kids, and then add your name in support to help build momentum for this plan.

Here's what we've put together:

We're calling for requiring background checks for all gun sales and closing the loopholes that allow dangerous individuals to make their purchase without going through one of these checks.

We're asking for a new, stronger ban on military-style assault weapons and high-capacity magazines that allow a shooter to fire dozens of bullets as quickly as he can pull a trigger. And we're asking Congress to help protect law enforcement by make it illegal for members of the public to possess armor-piercing bullets.

We're going to give law enforcement more tools and resources to prevent and prosecute gun crimes, and we're going to end the freeze on gun violence research that prevents the Center from Disease Control from looking at the causes of gun violence.

We're calling on Congress to help make schools safer by putting up to 1,000 school resource officers and mental health professionals in schools and ensuring they have comprehensive emergency management plans in place.

And we're going to increase coverage so that students and young adults can get access to the mental health treatment they may need.

We know that no policy we enact or law we enforce can prevent every senseless act of violence in our country. But if we can save the life of even one child, we have a deep responsibility to act.

Now is the time to come together to protect our kids. Learn about the plan, then add your name alongside mine:

http://www.whitehouse.gov/now-is-the-time" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Thanks,

Vice President Joe Biden

I'm not quite sure why I received this email but I'm so angered by it that I almost can't type. There are times I think the liberals have seceded from reality and obviously don't understand logic.

[mcd_sports]

Did you do the letter on Ruger's website? I got this letter too. I assume it is from that.

[Waco1959]

Yes I did and I assumed the email was the response. Does the w\White House think ANYONE that sent the letter will be swayed by the response?

[Wes]

I did the ruger email and did not receive this

[77346]

I got the same e-mail and I did the Ruger site...

unsubscribed... then hit delete

[Jaguar]

Now I'm sad, Uncle Joe didn't send me a letter.

[Wes]

The contents of the email didn't bother me so much as the information at the link

http://www.whitehouse.gov/issues/preven ... n-violence" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Require background checks for all gun sales
Strengthen the background check system for gun sales
Pass a new, stronger ban on assault weapons
Limit ammunition magazines to 10 rounds
Finish the job of getting armor-piercing bullets off the streets
Give law enforcement additional tools to prevent and prosecute gun crime
End the freeze on gun violence research
Make our schools safer with new resource officers and counselors, better emergency response plans, and more nurturing school climates
Ensure quality coverage of mental health treatment, particularly for young people

[Reds45ACP]

Signed the Ruger piece. Got the same damn e-mail. [Insert a tirade of foul language and insults]

Obnoxious.

[glstine]

I got the email as well. I replied, although I'm sure it's not a monitored address. One can hope right?

[tommyg]

The mental health for young people is the worst part Obama wants to
establish a generation of people who are forbidden to have guns.

Is making a low grade a reason to deny

The schools get Doctors to prescribe Physoactive drugs to kids than label them as mentally defective

this is real trouble.. all of this @#$%&&**^ plot

[Andrew]

The mental health for young people is the worst part Obama wants to
establish a generation of people who are forbidden to have guns.

Is making a low grade a reason to deny

The schools get Doctors to prescribe Physoactive drugs to kids than label them as mentally defective

this is real trouble.. all of this @#$%&&**^ plot

Home School or private school, you've got to get your kids away from the gubmint skuls.

[ajwakeboarder]

And we're asking Congress to help protect law enforcement by make it illegal for members of the public to possess armor-piercing bullets.

Why this? When was the last time armor-piercing bullets were used in a crime? Where did they get this from?