Trump says that he is concerned about mental health issues as it relates to the tragedy in Florida.
But, just after taking office he killed the President Obama law H.J. Res 40 that would have prevented some mentally ill citizens from purchasing firearms. So now Trump is part of the problem and deserves a good dose of blame for the Florida shooting. And, how 'bout the nra? They've been awfully quiet. Bigly.
Sounds like you suffer from a serious mental illness known as Trump Derangement Syndrome.
Just another example of Trump saying one thing after doing another. He is an aggressive slave of the nra.
Liar.
I don't like Trump, but I like liars even less
(so I dislike Trump twice as much). You may as well call him an "aggressive slave of the ACLU, the American Association of People with Disabilities, the Bazelon Center for Mental Health Law, the Consortium for Citizens with Disabilities, the Disability Law Center of Alaska, the National Alliance on Mental Illness, the National Association of County Behavioral Health and Developmental Disability Directors, the National Association for Rights Protection and Advocacy, the National Association for Rural Mental Health, the National Council on Disability, the National Council of Independent Living, the National Coalition of Mental Health Recovery, the National Disability Leadership Alliance, the National Disability Rights Network, the New York Association of Psychiatric Rehabilitation Services, and Safari Club International" because they all supported the rule change, hell, they all thought the resolution should have killed when originally voted upon.
The rule would have allowed bureaucrats in one of our federal agencies to prevent American citizens from exercising one of their constitutional rights. Based on the highly questionable idea that you are incapable of managing your own finances thus making you a “mental defective.”
In the words of the American Association of People with Disabilities:
"This rule would require the Social Security Administration to forward the names of all Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI) and Supplemental Security Income (SSI) benefit recipients who use a representative payee to help manage their benefits due to a mental impairment to the National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS)."
Feel free to read the letter the ACLU sent to members of Congress:
https://waysandmeans.house.gov/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/ACLU.pdf
From the National Council on Disability:
"NCD is a nonpartisan, independent federal agency with no stated position with respect to gun-ownership or gun-control other than our long-held position that restrictions on gun possession or ownership based on psychiatric or intellectual disability must be based on a verifiable concern as to whether the individual poses a heightened risk of danger to themselves or others if they are in possession of a weapon. Additionally, it is critically important that any restriction on gun possession or ownership on this basis is imposed only after the individual has been afforded due process and given an opportunity to respond to allegations that they are not able to safely possess or own a firearm due to his or her disability. NCD believes that SSA’s final rule falls far short of meeting these criteria."
https://waysandmeans.house.gov/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/NCD.pdf
Quoting my source material:
"There were a host of reasons to object to this measure. On separation-of-powers grounds, the prospect of the Social Security Administration playing judge, jury, and executioner is flatly intolerable. On due process grounds, there was nothing to recommend the measure (as the ACLU made abundantly clear in its opposition letter). On statutory grounds, it seems clear that the SSA was acting ultra vires (beyond the powers)."
No, the GOP Did Not Just Repeal the Background Check System or Give Guns to the Mentally Ill
So, none of the laws or rules governing gun ownership by the mentally ill have or were changed. What was changed was the ability of one government agency to be the sole arbiter of whether or not your ability to balance your check book should be the basis upon which you are denied one of your Constitutional Rights.
