2nd Amendment

I do believe in everyone's right to own a gun that is sane, but the GOP and Trump will sign to overturn Obama's ban on anyone that is receiving SSDI for mental disorder's that has someone handling their daily affairs. I have two clients in their 50's on SSDI that their 80 year old mother's brought them in last month for health insurance or in one case already on Medicare and helped them sign up because they could not understand what was going on. One works a PT job and has to be walked to the bus stop daily and the other cannot get any job. The first one was mild manner and probably wouldn't want a gun but the second was increasingly hostile with his mother. They are great people but I sure the hell don't want a gun in either of their hand's.

Ppaca, where did you learn they're planning to overturn this rule? Just wondering.

On MSN

It just makes no good sense. Sounds as if Trump is reaching for something -- ANYthing -- to prove he's a Second Amendment guy as promised. STUPID.

Some people should not have access to guns. My father locked his gun case. Not because he was a liberal, socialist, or progressive, but because he believed that gun safety requires that children should only handle firearms under adult supervision. I went to a gun club every sunday to shoot after church, and nobody had tolerance for unsafe use of guns. Allowing access to guns by children or people lacking mental capacity is insanity. Politics were never an issue when I was a child concerning guns. Safety was first and foremost, and the NRA was instrumental in that mission. Somewhere along the way it forgot about the sportsman and became a prostitute for gun merchants.

http://readersupportednews.org/news-section2/318-66/41736-house-votes-to-overturn-obama-rule-restricting-gun-sales-to-the-severely-mentally-ill



n Thursday the GOP-controlled House voted to overturn an Obama administration rule designed to keep firearms out of the hands of some people deemed mentally ill.

The action was the latest move by Congressional Republicans to undo several of President Obama's regulations on issues such as gun control and the environment through an arcane law called the Congressional Review Act (CRA).

According to NPR's Susan Davis, the measure being blocked from implementation would have required the Social Security Administration to send records of some beneficiaries with severe mental disabilities to the FBI's National Instant Criminal Background Check System. About 75,000 people found mentally incapable of managing their financial affairs would have been affected.

The National Rifle Association had pushed for the repeal, and Republicans argued it infringed upon Second Amendment rights by denying due process.

Supporters of the rule argued it was designed to stop mentally ill persons from getting firearms.

"The House charged ahead with an extreme, hastily written, one-sided measure that would make the American people less safe," Rep. Elizabeth Esty, D-Conn., said, according to The Hill. Esty represents Newtown, Conn., where a mentally ill man shot and killed 20 six- and seven-year-olds and six adults.

NPR's Nathan Rott reports that the Senate also passed a resolution to undo the Obama administration's Stream Protection Rule, also largely along party lines, by using the CRA. The goal of the rule was to minimize coal mine pollutants in waterways, and would have required coal companies to monitor water quality in nearby streams during mining operations. Republicans argued the law was too burdensome and would kill jobs in the coal industry.

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