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Originally Posted by beerptrol
Trump Signs Bill Revoking Obama-Era Gun Checks for People With Mental Illnesses
Alt right have no problem with mentally ill whites buying guns and massacring strangers or entire families. They also don't have a problem with their cult leader hiring illegals. Racist Hypocrites!!!!
Go on with your agenda against brown people.
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^^ "Brown people!" LOL You unhinged LYING lunatic:
Here's The Truth About Trump Revoking Gun Checks On The 'Mentally Ill'
While pushing such rash, broad and frequently unspecified "gun laws," leftists have slammed President Donald Trump for eliminating a proposed Obama-era regulation which allegedly stopped the "mentally ill" from legally obtaining firearms.
See genius CNN anchor Chris Cuomo's tweet for a perfect example:
are you aware that one of the regulations you got rid of made it more difficult for mentally ill to get guns?
https://t.co/r5lRKZHhnd
— Christopher C. Cuomo (@ChrisCuomo) February 15, 2018
This is a major distortion of reality; a cynical way of falsely tying the evil actions of one man onto the president and Republican lawmakers in the ultimate pursuit of gun control measures.
The proposed rule was seriously broad, revoking Second and Fourth Amendment rights of tens of thousands of Americans, based merely on the fact that they received assistance in managing their disability payments from Social Security. The rule was rightly repealed by Congressional Republicans and President Trump.
As noted by Scott Shackford at Reason magazine, "This is a regulation that potentially deprived between 75,000 to 80,000 people of a right based not on what they had done but on the basis of being classified by the government in a certain way. The fact that these people may have these impairments did not inherently mean that they were dangerous to themselves or others and needed to be kept away from guns."
"The government does have the power to restrict and even deny gun ownership to people, but it has to show that these people have engaged in behavior that makes weapons dangerous in their hands," explained Shackford.
The National Rifle Association (NRA), mental health and disability groups, and even the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) strongly opposed the rule.
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Too many lying lunatics around here
