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This won't go down well with the 'deplorable'.
This seems to confirm that there is agenda of targeting the 'mentally ill'
This seems to confirm that there is agenda of targeting the 'mentally ill'
HALF the population will
have a mental health issue diagnosis at some point in their
lifetimes! This is NOT a partisan issue. It is one of basic civil
rights. LISTEN to what is being pushed, it goes FAR outside the
current media discussion. They do this with every tragedy, use events
to argue why we need to give up our rights for security they never
provide!!!!
---Sane
Progressive
To
listen to the video GO
HERE
"Take
The Guns First" - Trump Breaks With Republicans Over Gun-Control
Plan
28
February, 2018
Update:
US Senator Ben Sasse (R-NE). a member of the Senate Judiciary
Committee, issued the following statement regarding President Trump's
comments today on due process and the Second Amendment:
"Strong
leaders don't automatically agree with the last thing that was said
to them. We have the Second and due process of low for a reason.
We're
not ditching any Constitutional protections simply because the last
person the President talked to today doesn’t like them."
*
* *
President
Trump told a group of lawmakers that they must do something to keep
guns away from mentally ill individuals - even if that means raising
the minimum age for rifle ownership to 21, Bloomberg reports.
His
remarks appeared
to contradict a CNN report from earlier in the week,
which quoted anonymous White House aides saying Trump would soon walk
back his support for raising the age limit.
But
on Wednesday, in what the New
York Times characterized as a
"shocking" break with his Republican Congressional allies,
Trump told lawmakers during a televised meeting in the Cabinet Room
that easing gun owners’ ability to carry concealed weapons across
state lines, a provision of the House-passed gun bill and the NRA’s
top legislative priority, should be part of a separate bill, a
strategy favored by Democrats. The House bill combining background
check provisions with the loosening of concealed carry rules has
stalled in the Senate after passing the House. Instead, Trump said he
supports the proposal from Sens. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., and Pat
Toomey, R-Pa., which he says is best positioned to pass. Sen. Amy
Klobuchar agreed that the Manchin-Toomey bill is a "good place
to start."
"It
would be so beautiful to have one bill that everyone could support,"
Mr. Trump said as Senator Dianne Feinstein, Democrat of California,
sat smiling to his left. "It’s time that a president stepped
up."
Per
the Times, Trump repeatedly suggested that the dynamics surrounding
the gun control debate had shifted, in part, because of his presence
in the Oval Office - a remark that earned him cheers from Democrats.
WATCH: President Trump: "I like taking the guns early ... Take the guns first, go through due process second."
Trump
predicted his plan would pass with broad support, suggesting that he
plans to win over a sizable chunk of the Democratic caucus.
Trump
told his audience that raising the ownership age is "something
you have to think about," Trump said. He added that "people
don't bring it up" because the NRA opposes the policy. Trump had
initially claimed that he would convince the NRA to go along with it.
As
the Hill pointed out, he also said he supports confiscating guns from
mentally ill individuals, a position vociferously opposed by
Republicans.
"I
like taking the guns early like in this crazy man’s case that just
took place in Florida ... to go to court would have taken a long
time," Trump said at a meeting with lawmakers on school safety
and gun violence.
"Take
the guns first, go through due process second," Trump said.
He
also said mentally ill people shouldn't have guns.
"A
lot of people are saying 'oh you shouldn't be saying that',"
Trump said. "But I don't want mentally ill people having guns."
To
be sure, states don't need to enact the exact same restrictions,
Trump said. But "what does have to be the same is the background
checks and all of the data."
Per Reuters Trump urged lawmakers to pass a comprehensive gun control
bill as the national conversation surrounding gun control - a
conversation that was triggered by a shooting at Marjory Douglas
Tillman High School in Parkland Fla. The shooting left 14 students
and 3 faculty dead, and more than a dozen injured.
Rebutting
accusations that he is beholden to the NRA, Trump added that gun
lovers have less power over him than lawmakers.
Earlier
today, Dick's Sporting Goods said it is "going to take a stand"
and announced it would permanently ban sales of the AR-15 - the rifle
used by Parkland shooter Nikolas Cruz and several other mass shooters
- from its stores.
The
meeting with lawmakers was his fourth "free-flowing gun policy
discussion" since the Valentine's Day massacre in Florida,
according to Reuters.
"We’re
going to come up with some ideas," Trump said.
"Hopefully
we can put those ideas in a very bipartisan bill. It would be so
beautiful to have one bill that everybody can support, as opposed to
- you know - 15 bills, everybody’s got their own bill."
Seven
senators and representatives were invited to Wednesday’s session.
The group included Democrats and Republicans who, according to
Reuters, have diverse views on gun control.
Republican
Senators John Cornyn of Texas and Pat Toomey of Pennsylvania, who
have proposed legislation to fix holes in the background check system
for gun buyers, and their Democratic co-sponsors.
Trump
also said he back Cornyn’s bill while urging senators to add more
items to the bill to make it more comprehensive.
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