Republican struggles to explain why GOP just voted to let severely mentally ill people get guns

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http://www.rawstory.com/2017/02/republican-struggles-to-explain-why-gop-just-voted-to-let-severely-mentally-ill-people-get-guns/

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Allison Camerota (CNN) wouldn’t let him off the hook, however.

“If someone has a mental illness so severe that they cannot work, should they be able to have a gun?” she asked.

“Well, the question is, is somebody able to have a gun at the same time they’re receiving Social Security disability benefits,” Barrasso (R-WY) replied. “And you can take a look at how those decisions are being made. But for seven or eight years, right up until the end of President Obama’s turn, it was fine.”

Camerota was still undeterred.

“Senator, are you comfortable with somebody having a mental disability and having a gun?” she asked.

“You can take a look at what the Constitution says, which is what I do,” he replied. “As a physician who’s spent lots of time dealing with patients with all different backgrounds, there are clearly people who have been labeled one way or another, and I’m not comfortable with midnight regulations by the president.”

Of course it's Obama's fault . . .

[braddy]

1. It is still against the law, and the 1968 law about mental illness is still in place.

[Girard442]

2. Why? So they can shoot people.

Geez, folks. Do I have to explain everything?

[oasis]

3. "Right to life" GOP.