He also announced 23 steps he intends to take immediately without congressional approval. These include improvements in the existing system for background checks, lifting the ban on federal research into gun violence, putting more counselors and “resource officers” in schools and better access to mental health services.

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/chi-obama-gun-control-20130116,0,3325027.story

Seriously? We had a ban on researching the effects of gun violence? That is enforced ignorance by the GOP on us so we don’t know how bad this thing is we are living with? What was the rationale for that? That science would show how wrong GOP ideology is? Ignorance is bliss?