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What a crock of unadulterated horse shit!!! Trump on TV re: Florida shooting! He never (Original Post) Atticus Feb 2018 OP
Well, he's more familiar with mental health... Frustratedlady Feb 2018 #1
Trump, Pence, Rubio, Grassley, etc., etc.,---Parkland school shooting Atticus Feb 2018 #3
blaming victims handmade34 Feb 2018 #2
Trump repealed rule to block mentally ill people from buying guns spanone Feb 2018 #4

Frustratedlady

(16,254 posts)
1. Well, he's more familiar with mental health...
Thu Feb 15, 2018, 12:40 PM
Feb 2018

since he's suffering from symptoms of various mental health problems. Mental health doesn't contribute to his campaigns or coffers as the NRA does. Mental health is a subject few people would accuse Trump of ignoring, since no one seems to want to do anything about it, either. After all, Reagan...King of the Past...didn't think it was important enough to keep the clinics and institutions open. Mental health is a safe subject for Trump. Guns, not so much.

Atticus

(15,124 posts)
3. Trump, Pence, Rubio, Grassley, etc., etc.,---Parkland school shooting
Thu Feb 15, 2018, 03:02 PM
Feb 2018

due to "mental illness" plus students and teachers ignoring warning signs.

Guns? ---(crickets)----

Nothing to see here. Move along!

spanone

(135,841 posts)
4. Trump repealed rule to block mentally ill people from buying guns
Thu Feb 15, 2018, 03:03 PM
Feb 2018
President Trump tweeted Thursday that Americans need to be more vigilant about people with mental illness to prevent school shootings — but a year ago this month he revoked an Obama-era rule that would have blocked some mentally ill people from buying guns.

“So many signs that the Florida shooter was mentally disturbed, even expelled from school for bad and erratic behavior. Neighbors and classmates knew he was a big problem. Must always report such instances to authorities, again and again!” the president wrote.

But Trump, at the urging of the National Rifle Association, quashed a policy that would have forced Social Security officials to report records of some mentally ill people getting benefits to the FBI’s National Instant Criminal Background Check System, NPR reported at the time.

People who had been deemed mentally incapable of managing their financial affairs — about 75,000 people — would have been covered by the policy.


https://nypost.com/2018/02/15/trump-repealed-rule-to-block-mentally-ill-people-from-buying-guns/

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