The NRA will be so proud (sad face). You would think the issue of preventing people with mental illness from gun ownership would be bipartisan and let’s face it–basic common sense issue. Well, under the DT admin, that is not the case. The repeal of the legislation preventing mentally ill from gun ownership passed the House a week or so ago and today it passed in the Senate. There is always the chance DT will veto. —-uhmmm, No.
The original bill introduced during the Obama administration targeted people who had applied for Social Security disability benefits because they could not handle their own finances. So—-let me get this straight. You can’t balance your checkbook or pay your own bills–but by all means you have the right to bear arms. I am pretty sure this is not what our founding fathers had in mind.
Do I think massive lobbying by the NRA and the fact that DT and his cronies were heavily backed by the NRA played a part? Hmmm, is that even a question? #THISISNOTNORMAL #RESIST
Mother of 3, Nurse
Colts Neck, NJ
Resources:
Republicans in Congress just made it easier for mentally ill people to get guns, https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/plum-line/wp/2017/02/15/republicans-in-congress-just-made-it-easier-for-mentally-ill-people-to-get-guns/?hpid=hp_no-name_opinion-card-e%3Ahomepage%2Fstory&utm_term=.169db33c8368
