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Originally Posted by Mick
You should give a monkey's about the total inaccuracies you keep posting.
No it does not mean all people with mental health issues can get a gun, and it was not one of Trump's early decisions and I will explain below in more detail....
Let me guess you are stereotyping all people with Mental health issues as some kind of danger to society if they have a weapon, how very prejudice can you get?
However - you are still wrong on many fronts.
The new rules never went into effect before being rescinded, and more crucially, did not change any existing laws regulating who is allowed to purchase guns, those laws still exist!!!!
Laws exist right now, that seek to limit gun sales to anyone “who has been adjudicated as a mental defective or who has been committed to a mental institution” per Title 18 section 922(g) of the United States Code.
The new Obama rules/laws would have unconstitutionally captured people fit to own a gun, with a mental illness, that would not have presented themselves as a danger with guns.
Not all Mental illnesses present psychotic tendencies and it is rather arrogant and ignorant to think down this path, as well as being discriminatory in nature.
While Trump signed this repeal in to a law in Feb 2017, it was nothing to do with him. This was an act by the Republican controlled congress.
The rule was rescinded using a legal procedure called the the Congressional Review Act.
It allows regulations passed in the final days of one administration to be rescinded with a simple majority vote in both chambers of Congress during the first 60 days of a new administration. Trump just happened to be the Republican President to sign it, almost one month in to his presidency.
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Then why won't they show pictures?
The Americans have the most bizarre and lax gun laws, varying from state to state, yet cannot get to grips with the idea that access to guns is a huge part of the problem, and see easier and broader ownership as the solution.
Trump is in the pockets of the NRA & GOP. He could be known for doing something, instead his legacy is more deaths, more racism and more hatred.