Feb. 28, 2017: Trump Signs Bill Revoking Obama-Era Gun Checks for People With Mental Illnesses

[spanone]

The fucking nerve of this man to blame mental illness for murders after doing THIS.

Feb. 28, 2017...a month into his 'presidency'

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.

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

[dalton99a]

1. Kick

[malaise]

2. We never fail

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100212345971

[spanone]

3. Every news source in the nation should have pointed this out after his phony-ass speech.

Great minds!!!

[malaise]

4. My post was from yesterday

I knew what was coming from the Emperor of Insanity

I'd love Obama to point it out himself but he's way too nice.

[spanone]

5. You are way ahead of the curve...

Where does this shit end?

[malaise]

6. Hopefully with the Con in prison

Can't take much more of this

[Marengo]

7. ACLU supported the roll-back

[spanone]

9. The ACLU was against it because they feared innocent people would get put on a list....

trump was against it because Obama instituted it.

[Marengo]

10. Irrelevant. Doesn't matter why bad policy is rolled back so long as it is.

[spanone]

11. Not sure it was bad, but you are.

[Marengo]

12. LOL! K

[lapucelle]

8. Joe Biden was President Obama's point man in the fight for same gun laws.

Biden is not new to this fight.

Five days after the shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary, President Obama announced that Vice President Biden would lead an effort to develop a set of concrete policy proposals for reducing gun violence, due no later than January.

“This is not some Washington commission. This is not something where folks are going to be studying the issue for six months and publishing a report that gets read and then pushed aside. This is a team that has a very specific task, to pull together real reforms right now.”

Keeping with President Obama’s commitment to engage the American people in the process, the Vice President solicited input from citizens and organizations with a wide range of concerns, perspectives, and opinions while preparing his recommendations. From victims’ advocates to educators, elected leaders to sports and wildlife conservationists, he spoke with many groups about their ideas on curbing gun violence in the United States.

https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/issues/preventing-gun-violence

[BlueWI]

13. Good call.

Worst president ever, and after GWB, that's an accomplishment.