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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsRemember! drump's one piece of gun-related legislation undid restrictions aimed at mental illness.
President Trump signed a measure into law on February 28, 2017 that rescinds an Obama-era rule aimed at blocking gun sales to certain mentally ill people. The GOP-majority Senate passed the bill by a 57-43 margin earlier this month, following a House vote to overturn the rule.
The Obama administration policy "would have required the Social Security Administration to report the records of some mentally ill beneficiaries to the FBI's National Instant Criminal Background Check System," as The Two-Way has reported. "Those who have been deemed mentally incapable of managing their financial affairs roughly 75,000 people would have been affected by the rule."
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2018/02/trump-who-made-it-easier-for-mentally-ill-people-to-buy-guns-blames-mental-health-issues-for-florida-shooting/
http://fortune.com/2018/02/15/trump-shooting-mental-illness/
https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/02/28/517799119/trump-repeals-rule-designed-to-block-gun-sales-to-certain-mentally-ill-people
Eliot Rosewater
(31,112 posts)trash would rescind it.
Trump has rescinded everything Obama did almost and does not care how many of us it harms or kills.
we can do it
(12,189 posts)global1
(25,253 posts)again they let him spout mental illness; talk about mental hospitals that used to be in New York - yet they give him a pass by not bringing up the fact that he undid restrictions aimed at mental illness. The Repugs went along with him and are just as guilty. Hypocrites - all of them.
Sneederbunk
(14,293 posts)exboyfil
(17,864 posts)from Medicaid which is the largest payee for mental health services in the country.