Trump And Mental Health – The Gun Control Lie

Flopping Aces ^ | 02-20-18 | Daniel John Sobieski

[Starman417]

Never mind that the FBI failed to heed and follow up repeated and explicit warning about Nikolas Cruz before his shooting rampage in Parkland, Florida. Never Mind the FBI was too busy chasing phantom Russian collusion to locate a future killer that any nerd living in their parent’s basement could have located with ease. According to mental health professional Jimmy Kimmel, Trump made Parkland happen by rescinding Obama administration regulations barring the mentally ill from getting guns:

Kimmel kept addressing Trump by adding that politicians and the president like to say that mass shootings are a mental health issue. He then said that one of the first acts of Trump's presidency was to roll back a regulation designed to keep firearms out of the hands of the mentally ill.

"Your party voted to repeal the mandates on coverage for mental health," Kimmel said. "So I agree, this is a mental illness issue because if you don't think we need to do something about it, you are obviously mentally ill."

What in fact happened is that President Trump and the Republican Congress removed regulations not designed to protect the public but intended to disarm innocent and law-abiding senior citizens based on the assumption that if they need help handling their finances they must be dangerous and must be disarmed. When was the last time grandpa shot up his nursing home?

The reality is somewhat different from Kimmel’s slanderous falsehood. A s Snopes reports:

In the wake of a horrific school shooting in Parkland, Florida, that left 17 dead in February 2018, media renewed focus on an Obama-era regulation repealed in the early months of the Trump administration. That rule would have given the National Instant Criminal Background Check System, which is used for gun sales, access to Social Security Administration data including the names of individuals receiving certain federal mental health benefits.

As we explained in a 17 February 2017 post, this rule — which never went into effect before being rescinded — did not change any existing laws regulating who is allowed to purchase guns. It merely would have provided a new way to enforce existing restrictions on gun sales by allowing a transfer of information from one agency to another. There are now, and have been for some time, laws that seek to limit gun sales to anyone “who has been adjudicated as a mental defective or who has been committed to a mental institution” per Title 18 section 922(g) of the United States Code

Kimmel has advanced this canard about Donald Trump, mental health and guns before, most notably after the mass shooting in Las Vegas. In fact, there was a delicious sense of irony in gun-control advocate Kimmel beefing up his armed security after the Las Vegas shooting, falsely claiming that President Trump had made it easier for the mentally ill to get guns. Guns are okay to protect the liberal elites but not for the rest of us who can’t be trusted or don’t know any better.

The same double standard exists for Democratic members of Congress who demand their constituents be disarmed even as they welcome back Rep, Steve Scalise, the victim of a shooting where a bad guy with a gun was stopped by a good guy with a gun. Many members of Congress are alive today only because Scalise, being a member of the House leadership, had his armed security detail with him

[econjack]

Just viewed a 16 year old twit who thinks the solution is a gun control law from the gov’t. When I hear this, I raise my hand and ask: “If you can legislate a legal solution to morals and sanity, why did Prohibition fail, why is there an opioid crisis, and why do people still commit murder?”

[ataDude]

There was a series of problems including, first, the school district who took it upon themselves to be judge and jury. In order to “soften” the school-to-jail pathway for junior criminals, they ordered that referrals to LEOs be eliminated.

[i_robot73]

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Just viewed a 16 year old twit who thinks the solution is a gun control law from the gov’t. When I hear this, I raise my hand and ask: “If you can legislate a legal solution to morals and sanity, why did Prohibition fail, why is there an opioid crisis, and why do people still commit murder?”
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Better to ask in which city, or State, this has been successfully done? Chicago, NY, Baltimore, etc.?

[Impala64ssa]

[adorno]

The solution which liberals seek when it comes to “gun control”, would be similar to what countries such as Cuba and Venezuela and China and N. Korea have.

People in those countries don’t go around shooting each other up.

So, the solution would end up being to create a dictatorial regime, where only the government has guns.

In essence, what the liberals ultimately are after, is the eventual repeal of the 2nd amendment, which means taking away the people’s right to bear arms.

[MNJohnnie]

Starting in the 1960s we have totally dismantled “involuntary commitment” laws. That means it is much harder to institutionalize anyone who indicates dangerous behavior. Now we mainstream them and treat them with anti physcotic drugs. The result is there are more potentially dangerous people, like this mass murder in Fl, who neither the Mental Health system nor Law Enforcement can deal with.

There were more then enough warning signs to in this murder’s background to warrant him being in front of a judge for a mental competency hearing. Instead we don’t “Want to ostracize him” so our system lets him run around loose UNTIL he committed a sufficiently violent crime to get himself locked up.

As long as the Political/Media class keep using dead children to push a failed 1960s political agenda on guns, instead of addressing the real problems, this will continue.