02-08-2017, 12:24 PM
Gun rights advocates object to almost every existing or proposed piece of control legislation and say the government should focus on keeping guns away from the "crazies" and enforcing existing laws.
Then, the Social Security Administration agrees to inform the NICS of those who were legally declared "mentally-incompetent" (which includes old and young SS recipients) to reduce the risk of them passing a background check and buying/owning new guns......and the same gun rights advocates object to it straight up. Same old circular logic.
The law/rule made sense to me and I don't agree that it was poorly written. But, in the grander scheme, I don't care much that it was repealed by Trump because it didn't take away their existing guns and only affected about 1 million people anyway.
If all courts, doctors, agencies, etc........followed the federal law and reported the legally-declared mentally-incompetent to NICS, it could make a difference in gun control and improving public safety. But, since providers and agencies in so few states do, some viewed it as mentally-incompetent Social Security recipients being unfairly targeted. That's not true. Instead, the law was simply being enforced in one case where it's not in so many others.
Then, the Social Security Administration agrees to inform the NICS of those who were legally declared "mentally-incompetent" (which includes old and young SS recipients) to reduce the risk of them passing a background check and buying/owning new guns......and the same gun rights advocates object to it straight up. Same old circular logic.
The law/rule made sense to me and I don't agree that it was poorly written. But, in the grander scheme, I don't care much that it was repealed by Trump because it didn't take away their existing guns and only affected about 1 million people anyway.
If all courts, doctors, agencies, etc........followed the federal law and reported the legally-declared mentally-incompetent to NICS, it could make a difference in gun control and improving public safety. But, since providers and agencies in so few states do, some viewed it as mentally-incompetent Social Security recipients being unfairly targeted. That's not true. Instead, the law was simply being enforced in one case where it's not in so many others.