Posted on 07/18/2015 9:46:09 AM PDT by PROCON
Seeking tighter controls over firearm purchases, the Obama administration is pushing to ban Social Security beneficiaries from owning guns if they lack the mental capacity to manage their own affairs, a move that could affect millions whose monthly disability payments are handled by others.
The push is intended to bring the Social Security Administration in line with laws regulating who gets reported to the National Instant Criminal Background Check System, or NICS, which is used to prevent gun sales to felons, drug addicts, immigrants in the country illegally and others.
A potentially large group within Social Security are people who, in the language of federal gun laws, are unable to manage their own affairs due to "marked subnormal intelligence, or mental illness, incompetency, condition, or disease."
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In other words, ANYONE THAT WE DON'T WANT TO HAVE A GUN.
Gramps lost his in a tragic boating accident.
This is aimed at retirees almost exclusively. Veteran retirees I think are the prime target.
The Kenyan commie b*tch is at it again.
Where believing in the Constitution, or worse The Bible, is a diagnostic for mental incompetence.
"Question: Do you like President 0bama? Yes=you're okay, No=No guns for you"
Typical liberal idiocy. Penalize the people who don't commit the crimes, excuse the ones who do.
Only the law abiding will be defenseless.
What is “subnormal intelligence?” If it’s anything below an IQ of 100, a lot of Democrats will be prevents from owning guns...maybe all of them!
A non medical Obama bureaucrat who has privy to your medical records that aren’t supposed to be openly available. An ‘administrative’ assessment
Think it couldn't happen with this Regime?
"""""""""unable to manage their own affairs due to "marked subnormal intelligence, or mental illness, incompetency, condition, or disease.""""""".
"the due to" statement perfectly describes all the generations of Welfare Queens and Kings..........
Good grief, any one old enough to be demented of course should not/would not have a gun close by, but the families would see to that anyway...........Demented wouldn't know where to look for their guns anyway, lol.
Sure are a lot of loss to boating accidents these days.
THIS is why the government started Medicare, the prescription drug plan and social security: in order to gather information about people and use it to further control their lives.
I'm probably a few hundred a month shorter than I could have been but it looks like a worthy "investment" to not have opted to get a "bonus" each month.
I prefer to be considered as aging vs "disabled".
Then most of bammy’s supporters would not qualify. I’m sure the gang bangers will comply though.
0bama learned well from the Soviets.
5.56mm
Just send in some young black male interns that workout all the time. That will distract him.
They are asking the wrong question - “Who should have a gun?”. The right question is “Who has the right to self defense?”.
I find that in a “debate” with liberals, it is often best to start by pointing out their obvious cognitive dissonance. So in any 2nd amendment discussion, I start with the question “Who has the natural right to defend themselves if they are attacked?” Followed by “When can the government take away a person’s natural rights?”
Not that it changes the mind of the liberal - they are true believers. But I often see others around me think through that point and come to the opinion that the 2nd amendment is there to protect the right of self defense. Not the final position I want them to see but it is a reasoned starting point. It takes them to a place of logic and thought, not emotion.
Or Christian
Or prior military
Or Republican
Or conservative
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