Given the recent shooting in a Texas church, the Democrats are once again doing what they do best ... demagoguing a law that Trump signed last Spring. The Dems are saying that this law allows mentally ill people to buy guns. Nope. This law rolled back an Obama regulation that required the Social Security people to add denials to the gun-registration database if persons need help with their financial affairs AND WITHOUT THE PROTECTION OF DUE PROCESS ... see: Washington Examiner Article. (Sorry I am not referring to a MSM article, but I couldn't find one that fully and fairly explained things.)
Now it is possible that some of the people who meet Obama's stricture might be so mentally impaired that they shouldn't be able to buy a gun. But such a blanket prohibition by Obama suggests nothing more than he, and the rest of his party, really do want to pare back unfairly the universe of eligible gun buyers no matter that Constitution rights are clearly violated. If the Social Security Administration installed a process that allowed, after notification, such mentally impaired people a legal and due-process method of explaining their situational, then possibly only those few who actually were mentally ill to then be entered into the gun-background-check database.
This is called due process ... and is what Trump supported ... and Obama didn't.
If you want a clear, fair and complete discussion go to Snopes. The rule was intended to identify people who were receiving SS disability payments for MENTAL ILLNESS, (not other disabilities or financial conditions) to keep them from getting guns. WTF is wrong with that?
ReplyDeleteTwo choices: Republicans and Trump want people who are cookoo-pie to be able to buy guns (and kill children) OR Snopes is full of flue gasses ... to me, this choice is obvious.
DeleteFalse BS choices. You didn't even check Snopes (they agreed with some of your flatulence.)
DeleteSnopes puts the F in fake news (and flatulance) ...
DeleteHere's some due process:
ReplyDeleteBad Guys with Guns killed thousands of unarmed citizens.
Good guy citizenss with guns wounded 1 bad guy.
Due the math.
Life is more than math. Would these bad guys with guns not get them with even more gun control laws (which are not enforced now)? And when they are enforced say with "stop and frisk", liberals squeal.
DeleteAnd I think good guys with guns wound or kill many more than just one bad guy. Aren't cops also good guys with guns? Or are you a BLM nut job?
Nutjob shmutjob...Name calling is not an arguement, unless you are DJT. My math example score specified civilian citizens. I agree that if laws (gun, immigration, traffic) were enforced, we might be able to focus on the criminals and prevent them from running around killing people at random. We know good cops are shooting people every day and 99.9% of them deserve it.
DeleteThey need to get rid of the shitty cops who pump 17 bullets into a mentally ill guy with a knife.
Yes there are bad cops and they need to be eliminated. But there are 18 times more cops killed by blacks than unarmed blacks killed by cops ... rogue or not. What's the term that is lost these days? Proportionality?
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