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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsPOS Orange Shitgibbons blames FL shootings/deaths on the school....neighbors and other students..
Link to tweet
Link to tweet
Luciferous
(6,080 posts)legally. Blaming the victims- he is such a piece of shit!
demmiblue
(36,853 posts)Girard442
(6,073 posts)Theyll never impeach him anyway.
uponit7771
(90,339 posts)... first person I'd report.
OP Worthy
malaise
(269,004 posts)Wasn't he also kicked out of school?
gademocrat7
(10,658 posts)SCROTUS is a soulless cretin.
JI7
(89,250 posts)And fbi warned and denied clearance but certain people ignored it ?
Blue_Tires
(55,445 posts)among other things...
Nobody should even be surprised at this
demmiblue
(36,853 posts)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
Igel
(35,309 posts)But you need to look at details.
There's mental illness that can lead to things like violence. A relative of mine listened to the voices and battered his mother, committed arson in his mother's house, then battered his brother before he was stopped. (The second time was easier: He attacked a cop. Well, his mother, then a bystander civilian, then the cop. Ended the same.)
Then there's "mental illness" like some kids in my class. They're autistic, but only slightly. Or like my mother was 5 years ago. She had early stage Alzheimer's. They don't deserve stigmatizing.
Then there's the idea that executive fiat can make substantive changes to law. I disliked that under Nixon when I was 13 and haven't changed my mind on this point. Even if I like a goal, you can only poke so many procedural holes in the Constitution before it's confetti, and it doesn't matter if the destruction is for immediate good or bad.
Mrs. Ted Nancy
(462 posts)That tweet could be construed to describe himself. Maybe the FBI should check into this.
I would put one of those sarcasm thingies here, but I am kind of serious.
brewens
(13,588 posts)HipChick
(25,485 posts)GusBob
(7,286 posts)His neighbors called the cops
A You tuber called the FBI
He better come up with a better NRA cover story
The law defends civil rights of the mentally ill unless there's clear and convincing evidence he's a threat to himself or others Make a claim, and somebody has to evaluated the evidence, the time it takes, staffing, and likelihood of success before a judge.
One person's claim of threats don't cut it without something else.
Cops and FBI don't talk that closely.
It used to be easier to investigate. But, again, it was a civil rights issue, and, again, it's a question of individual rights vs society and how to balance the relative importance and application of individual constitution, civil, and human rights.
GusBob
(7,286 posts)Trump is the one who is saying report to authorities again again and again
my point is they were told again and again to no effect
Stuart G
(38,427 posts)See other thread going on now...."NRA Plan to shut up for a while ".....................why doesn't he know it?
He is too stupid to be let in on the.......... "NRA Plan"
https://www.democraticunderground.com/100210233574
uponit7771
(90,339 posts)Initech
(100,076 posts)Liberal In Texas
(13,553 posts)Obviously it was their fault, not that of this unstable nut who was able to own weapons of war.
Frustratedlady
(16,254 posts)My God, Trump, we've been reporting again and again, but the Repubs won't do anything about you. You should be removed from the Oval Office asap...no one is listening.
Get these damned monster guns off the streets and out of homes. No one needs them for hunting or any other activity. They are only used for carnage. To hell with target shooting or whatever else people say they use them for. They are mass killers. Why can't the Republicans understand? Congresscritters need to attend each one of these funerals and meet with the families. EACH ONE!