President Barack Obama has signed 23 Executive Orders intended to reduce gun violence in the United States. This alone will not be sufficient–Congress must pass new laws to address this problem as well, and the citizens of the united states have to make some cultural adjustments–but it is a start.

Republican Tea Party Congressman Steve Stockman of, where else, Texas, plans to file articles of impeachment against the president in an effort to maintain our current level of gun violence because, I suppose, he likes it when six year old children are gunned down in cold blood. The people of Stockman’s Congressional District should hang their collective heads in shame for what they have done.

The Executive Orders are summarized in the following list:

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 technologies.

16. 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.