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we can do it

(12,189 posts)
Fri Feb 23, 2018, 01:48 PM Feb 2018

Remember! drump's one piece of gun-related legislation undid restrictions aimed at mental illness.

President Trump signed a measure into law on February 28, 2017 that rescinds an Obama-era rule aimed at blocking gun sales to certain mentally ill people. The GOP-majority Senate passed the bill by a 57-43 margin earlier this month, following a House vote to overturn the rule.

The Obama administration policy "would have required the Social Security Administration to report the records of some mentally ill beneficiaries to the FBI's National Instant Criminal Background Check System," as The Two-Way has reported. "Those who have been deemed mentally incapable of managing their financial affairs — roughly 75,000 people — would have been affected by the rule."

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2018/02/trump-who-made-it-easier-for-mentally-ill-people-to-buy-guns-blames-mental-health-issues-for-florida-shooting/

http://fortune.com/2018/02/15/trump-shooting-mental-illness/

https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/02/28/517799119/trump-repeals-rule-designed-to-block-gun-sales-to-certain-mentally-ill-people

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Remember! drump's one piece of gun-related legislation undid restrictions aimed at mental illness. (Original Post) we can do it Feb 2018 OP
THe bill could have cured cancer, if it was originally signed by Obama, this pile of human Eliot Rosewater Feb 2018 #1
True that! we can do it Feb 2018 #2
Why Don't The MSM Focus On This When Trump Now Talks Mental Illness?... global1 Feb 2018 #3
The anniversary is next Wednesday. Make noise all day. Sneederbunk Feb 2018 #5
Also his budget cuts $110B/yr. exboyfil Feb 2018 #4

Eliot Rosewater

(31,112 posts)
1. THe bill could have cured cancer, if it was originally signed by Obama, this pile of human
Fri Feb 23, 2018, 01:49 PM
Feb 2018

trash would rescind it.

Trump has rescinded everything Obama did almost and does not care how many of us it harms or kills.

global1

(25,253 posts)
3. Why Don't The MSM Focus On This When Trump Now Talks Mental Illness?...
Fri Feb 23, 2018, 01:56 PM
Feb 2018

again they let him spout mental illness; talk about mental hospitals that used to be in New York - yet they give him a pass by not bringing up the fact that he undid restrictions aimed at mental illness. The Repugs went along with him and are just as guilty. Hypocrites - all of them.

exboyfil

(17,863 posts)
4. Also his budget cuts $110B/yr.
Fri Feb 23, 2018, 01:58 PM
Feb 2018

from Medicaid which is the largest payee for mental health services in the country.

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