Smart Talk: Obama’s gun actions

What to look for on Smart Talk Monday, January 11, 2016:

President Obama has the nation’s attention focused on guns and gun violence after a series of executive actions he took last week and the town hall meeting he held on guns Thursday night.

Any time there is a discussion of guns, it becomes a debate and this is no different.

The president wants to expand background checks to most people who sell guns, overhaul the background check system, hire 200 new Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms agents, spend $500 million on mental health, and use technology like “smart” guns that could only be used by the gun’s owner.

Obama’s proposals come just a few weeks after the mass shooting in California that turned out to be a terrorist attack, but he has referenced the shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Connecticut while making his proposals.

Guns and gun violence is the subject of Monday’s Smart Talk.

Appearing on the program are York County Congressman Scott Perry, who opposes the president’s actions, Shira Goodman of CeaseFirePA, Dr. D. Scott McCracken, who sees gun violence as a public health threat and John Olson, a sales associate from Musser’s Outdoors store in Ephrata.