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I want common sense gun control but I own guns. .
The problem is that you can't trust Libersals to define "proper sense".
What they claim is proper sense is really oppression.
Whenever the Liberals have the political power to impose gun control laws like in states like New York and California it is not common sense but pretty damn oppressive.
What do you consider some "proper sense" legislation.
According to the constitution there is none.
But it says a well regulated militia.
But we have explained what that term meant in colony times and have explained what Justice Scalia said about that every time this discussion comes up but you being a dumbass uneducated low information Moon Bat always fails to comprehend.
Trump is absolutely responsible for these mass murders
Trump’s predecessor,
Barack Obama, actually did take executive action on gun control not long after a gunman slaughtered 26 children and teachers at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut, in late 2012. And one of Trump’s first actions as president was to undo an Obama regulation that would have blocked some people with mental impairments from buying guns.
The rule, which became effective just two days before Trump took office, required the Social Security Administration (SSA) to inform the
FBI’s criminal background check system about disabled adults receiving benefits through a representative because they a mental impairment limited their ability to manage finances.
The Department of Veterans Affairs has long followed a similar policy, which accounts for the bulk of mental incompetency referrals to the background check system from federal agencies,
according to the Congressional Research Service. Most of the 4.6 million records prohibiting gun sales due to mental incompetency in the database as of 2016 came from state and local authorities.
The SSA
finalized the rule at the end of 2016, a year in which Obama touted several gun control reforms he’d undertaken without help from Congress. “The gun lobby may be holding Congress hostage, but they can’t hold America hostage,” Obama
said on Twitter that year. “We can’t accept this carnage in our communities.”
Because Obama pursued the policy involving the SSA through regulation, however, Congress had an easy time overturning it once Trump assumed the White House. Thanks to a special legislative tool called the Congressional Review Act, Republicans undid more than a dozen regulations that had been finalized late in Obama’s second term.
Gun control advocates such as the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence applauded the mental incapacity rule, but its critics included civil liberty and disability advocates. The rule would have restricted firearms sales for roughly
80,000 people, though the restrictions could be appealed.
“The thousands of Americans whose disability benefits are managed by someone else range from young people with depression and financial inexperience to older adults with Down syndrome needing help with a limited budget,” the American Civil Liberties Union said in
a February 2017 statement. “But no data ― none ― show that these individuals have a propensity for violence in general or gun violence in particular.”
Research shows that most mass shooters don’t have severe mental health problems. The man arrested in the killing of 22 people in El Paso on Saturday
allegedly wrote that he was doing it to fight an “invasion” of immigrants, echoing the president’s racist rhetoric.
Trump said Wednesday that background checks and mental health policies, rather than restrictions on types of firearms, are his main focus. He told reporters that he’s hoping Republicans and Democrats in Congress can agree on gun control legislation focused on those topics. Administration officials have
said they’re also looking at addressing the matters through executive action, though they haven’t specified what they have in mind.
Last year, the Trump administration used its executive authority to ban bump stocks that allow semi-automatic rifles to fire as rapidly as illegal machine guns. Bump stocks helped a gunman massacre 58 people in Las Vegas in 2017.