Pretty disingenuous post here. No one has ever said, or imply this. Of course this what people do---add to support.
Where has anyone ever claimed that people with mental health issues, should be allowed to own guns? Or supported such?
LINK?
"Where has anyone ever claimed that people with mental health issues, should be allowed to own guns? Or supported such?"
I keep telling you guys that when you argue pro-Trump you've got to be prepared to be blindsided by how much of an idiot Trump actually is..
. Routh ran from a minor traffic stop and then barricaded himself in a business for 3 hours in Greenboro in 2002. Among multiple felonies on that occasion and several other instances in NC, the fact that he was carrying a fully automatic machine gun should be a clue that he should never be allowed to own weapons again...Also that he had a few screws loose...
After Sandy Hook the Obama Admin added a regulation that made it more difficult for people with mental issues to buy a gun...
"The Obama
rule added people receiving Social Security checks for MENTAL ILLNESSES and people deemed unfit to handle their financial affairs to the national background check database.
Had that rule taken effect, the Obama administration predicted it would have added 75,000 names to the national background check database."
Notice that the rule did not prohibit people in those categoies from owning a weapon? It merely added them to the National background check database? Obviously intrusive...
Now presumably a background check on Routh would have revealed his love for illegal machine guns...
So when the MAGA cult swept to power in 2016, how did the NRA react? NBC news reported on the events of the past 2 years prior in an article written after mass shootings in El Paso and Dayton...
"But two years ago, the NRA insisted the Obama rule infringed on Second Amendment rights to buy guns, even though the regulation specifically targeted people who were diagnosed with mental illness."
As a result the GOP controlled House and Senate passed a bill revoking the regulation in 2017, when GUESS WHO was POTUS. And predictably, you know who quietly signed the bill with very little fanfare or publicity at the time...
"In fact, the news that Trump had signed the bill was at the bottom of a White House email that alerted the media to other legislation signed by the president.
And it came after the House and Senate, both of which were Republican-controlled at the time, passed a bill,
H.J. Res 40, which revoked the Obama-era regulation. The bill was sponsored by Rep. Sam Johnson, a Texas Republican who retired at the end of 2018."
Pressed by NBC News why Trump nullified the rule, White House spokesman Judd Deere said Tuesday: “This was a wide-ranging regulation promulgated in the 11th hour of the previous administration that included all kinds of people with disabilities who are more than capable of owning a firearm. The rule went too far.”
So does that provide the answer to your question?
Are you surprised that in fact some people do believe that people with mental illness should not only be allowed to own weapons, but also that they should not be encumbered by a background check? At this point no one should be surprised by the lengths the NRA and gun lobby will go to protect their cash cow...
In 2017, Trump quietly rolled back an Obama-era regulation that made it harder for people with mental illness to buy guns.
www.nbcnews.com