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struggle4progress

(118,338 posts)
Tue Oct 3, 2017, 10:41 PM Oct 2017

Trump has lost his marbles

By ROSIE DIMANNO
Tues., Oct. 3, 2017

... Trump was scheduled to descend on Vegas next, Wednesday. I can think of hardly anyone more morally unfit to bind a nation’s wounds in the aftermath of Sunday night’s slaughter by a retired accountant sniper, firing from his makeshift fortress room in the Mandalay hotel. Dozens from among the more than 500 wounded remain in critical condition.

This is the president who, in February, put his signature on a measure that nixed a regulation, initiated by his predecessor in the wake of other mass shootings, that would have kept guns out of the hands of some severely mentally ill people. That law required the Social Security Administration to disclose information quarterly to the national gun background check system about individuals with a documented mental illness — specifically and narrowly those receiving full benefits because of a mental illness and those requiring the assistance of third parties because they were incapable of managing their own benefits.

Even that was too much for Republicans, deeply beholden to the National Rifle Association — the NRA endorsed Trump in the last election — to swallow ...

https://www.thestar.com/news/world/2017/10/03/on-gun-control-donald-trump-has-lost-his-marbles-dimanno.html


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Trump has lost his marbles (Original Post) struggle4progress Oct 2017 OP
The NRA "rates" candidates. I saw this on DU earlier today and was appalled that BigmanPigman Oct 2017 #1
so the mentally ill can get guns? mnmoderatedem Oct 2017 #2

BigmanPigman

(51,627 posts)
1. The NRA "rates" candidates. I saw this on DU earlier today and was appalled that
Tue Oct 3, 2017, 10:52 PM
Oct 2017

this even exists. I really shouldn't have been surprised though when I think about it now.
https://www.ammoland.com/2016/10/nra-releases-final-donald-trump-rating-endorsement-2016/

mnmoderatedem

(3,729 posts)
2. so the mentally ill can get guns?
Wed Oct 4, 2017, 06:38 AM
Oct 2017

geez if trump wants a gun THAT bad, I'm sure he could borrow one from a secret service agent.

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