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CT: Mentally Ill Should Not Have Guns
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Mark A. Taff
Website: http://www.marktaff.com
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In an irrational rush to defend the Second Amendment, the Republican-led U.S. House and Senate voted this week to do away with a simple, reasonable rule that allows the Social Security Administration to inform the attorney general of severely mentally disabled people who, by law, are forbidden from owning or buying guns.
The rule is in perfect compliance with existing law, and getting rid of it to please the powerful gun lobby will be a mistake, as Connecticut can attest. It was written to protect society from the kind of violence that happened here in 2012, when a mentally ill young man used legal weapons to massacre 20 children and six women at Sandy Hook Elementary School. |
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dasing
(2/17/2017)
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| FAKE NEWS ! |
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Sosalty
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AFRet
(2/17/2017)
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Most of these people are not mentally ill. They are just old and nothing more. I wonder, why are we not having a crime wave now, based on the reasoning of this bill.
It's like a solution in search of a problem. Since they have firearms now, and we are not having any problem, WHY THE BAN???
Dam gun banners, any port in a storm. |
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