Trump Signs Bill Revoking Obama-Era Gun Checks for People With Mental Illnesses

[G_j]

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/trump-signs-bill-revoking-obama-era-gun-checks-people-mental-n727221

NEWS FEB 28 2017, 8:39 PM ET

Trump Signs Bill Revoking Obama-Era Gun Checks for People With Mental Illnesses


President Donald Trump quietly signed a bill into law Tuesday rolling back an Obama-era regulation that made it harder for people with mental illnesses to purchase a gun.

The rule, which was finalized in December, added people receiving Social Security checks for mental illnesses and people deemed unfit to handle their own financial affairs to the national background check database.

Had the rule fully taken effect, the Obama administration predicted it would have added about 75,000 names to that database.

President Barack Obama recommended the now-nullified regulation in a 2013 memo following the mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School, which left 20 first graders and six others dead. The measure sought to block some people with severe mental health problems from buying guns.

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[SummerSnow]

1. And here we are today.

he only rolled it back cause he hates Obama, no other reason.

[FSogol]

2. K & R. n/t

[gratuitous]

3. Totally unrelated!

Fake news! Trump wasn't even in the country when the latest massacre happened!

What other excuses will the bitter third try to run with?

[LakeVermilion]

4. I can explain it to you...

but I can't learn it for you.

February 2017, Trump repeals limits on mental health related gun purchases

November 2017, Trump decries mental health as the issue in Texas mass shooting

You are expected to see a relationship...

[calimary]

11. I kinda like that framing - "the bitter third."

It fits.

Welcome to the world of minority rule. Minority in this case includes the stupid, the greedy, the misers, the willfully ignorant, the leftover racists, jingoists, sexists, and misogynists all desperately clinging to a "past" they THINK they know/understand/cherish, all wrapped up in a category we now know as "The Deplorables".

[unblock]

5. first the tax bill, now this! he shouldn't be allowed to sign laws affecting himself personally!

[mikeysnot]

6. Taking assholery to a whole new level

Blames Texas shooting on Mental Illness then makes it easier to get guns for people with metal illness....

[Cryptoad]

7. NRA is coming out with a new pew design,,,,,,

has place for short and long guns to be with hymnals ......

[onetexan]

8. LOL brings new meaning to the phrase "Let us prey"

Didn't the idiot just come out and say the Texas shooting was a result of mental illness?

[N_E_1 for Tennis]

9. So racist he's undoing all of Obama's stuff...

I wonder if he had all the toilets replaced?

White Supremacist Terrorist dingleberry.

[ProudMNDemocrat]

10. And Donald Trump has BLOOD on his hands.

Chalk up the Las Vegas shooting as one of his "wins" as well as what took place in Texas yesterday.

Hey Donnie boy? Is America greater to your liking yet?

[trueblue2007]

12. HORRIBLE !!!!!!

[Vinca]

13. Because - hey! - what could possibly go wrong?

[Lee-Lee]

14. Thats not actually what it was- even the ACLU support this change

In the United States we have a thing called Due Process. It’s pretty important.

The rule that was revoked, that would have been struck down in court anyway on Constitutional grounds, was that anyone who had a representative payee for their social security payments was blanket denied their right to bear arms. Despite that fact that there are many reasons that someone can have a payee, many that are not mental health related, and there is no due process that in the process. It would have just blanket denied rights to everyone.

There is a right way to do this that protects the rights and due process of people. This wasn’t it. And that isn’t an NRA talking point, it’s one from the ACLU and disability advocates.

[Aristus]

15. Great timing, asshole...