Posted on 10/05/2017 10:51:42 AM PDT by Starman417
There is a delicious sense of irony in gun-control advocate Jimmy Kimmel beefing up his armed security after falsely claiming on his late night talk show after the Las Vegas massacre that President Trump had made it easier for the mentally ill to get guns. Guns are okay to protect the liberal elites but not for the rest of us who can’t be trusted or don’t know any better.
The same double standard exists for Democratic members of Congress who demand their constituents be disarmed even as they welcome back Rep, Steve Scalise, the victim of a shooting where a bad guy with a gun was stopped by a good guy with a gun. Many members of Congress are alive today only because Scalise, being a member of the House leadership, had his armed security detail with him
Dr. Kimmel has no way of knowing even now that the Las Vegas shooter was mentally unstable. Certainly the meticulous planning and preparation by the shooter over a long period of time would seem to indicate that while the shooter was evil, he was perfectly competent and sane. Certainly Kimmel’s charge against Trump is not true:Steve Scalise owes his life to the Second Amendment, which was written, not to shoot dear, but to shoot tyrants. The Second Amendment was written to protect the other nine in the Bill of Rights, including the First Amendment which gives Jimmy Kimmel the right to sound like the blooming idiot he is.Noting that President Trump had offered prayers for the victims’ families, and that Sarah Huckabee Sanders, the White House press secretary, had said that this wasn’t the time for political debate, he went on: “We have fifty-nine innocent people dead. It wasn’t their time, either. So I think now is the time for political debate.” He reminded his audience that, in February, Trump had signed a bill that made it easier for people with mental illness to buy guns. “The Senate Majority Leader, Mitch McConnell, the Speaker of the House, Paul Ryan, a number of other lawmakers who won’t do anything about this because the N.R.A. has their balls in a money clip, also sent their thoughts and their prayers today. Which is good. They should be praying. They should be praying for God to forgive them for letting the gun lobby run this country.”
What President Trump signed was a bill overturning an executive order that would tar the innocent with the broad brush of mental illness, people which included the elderly and veterans, in order to pursue the Obama administration’s gun control agenda:
Here's what happened earlier this year: Congress voted to overturn a last-minute Obama-era regulation that would give the Social Security Administration the power to revoke a person's Second Amendment rights based on whether he receives disability for a mental impairment that keeps him from working, or if he "[uses] a representative payee to help manage their benefits."The Obama administration repeatedly tried to use mental health as a means, not to make us safer, but to deny us our gun rights under the Second Amendment. Consider President’s pick of Dr. Vivek Murthy to be our Surgeon General, someone who firmly believes gun control is a health issue, something that can and should be used to gut out Second Amendment Rights. As Investor’s Business Daily editorialized during his confirmation process:As my Washington Examiner colleague David Freddoso explained at the time, the repeal of the Obama-era regulation, "doesn't allow people to buy guns who have been properly adjudicated by a court of law as mentally ill or unstable."
The Obama-era rule was designed to take away people's rights without due process of law. It would have flagged the names of people who, for example, have an anxiety disorder or depression which keeps them from working, and who, as the SSA puts it, ‘need help in managing [their] personal money affairs,'" he added. "As the many non-political mental health and autism advocacy groups that supported the House action noted, there is no link between these factors and a propensity for violence."
Murthy's approach to attacking the Second Amendment has been to say private ownership of firearms is a public health issue. The 37-year-old Murthy is president and co-founder of the anti-gun group Doctors for America, which advocates ObamaCare and gun control laws. His group, which has been dubbed Docs vs. Glocks, has pushed Congress to ban "assault" weapons and "high capacity" magazines.Back in 2013 a piece of legislation called Toomey-Manchin proposed that doctors be allowed to unilaterally place a patient’s name in the background check system in a way that violated patient doctor confidentially under HIPAA as well as our Second Amendment Rights:Doctors for America has promoted the invasion of privacy by doctors by advocating they ask patients if they have guns at home, including asking children if their parents own guns. He would have doctors counsel their patients against exercising their Second Amendment rights. One wonders how private that information would remain if entered into the medical records the government would be privy to under ObamaCare.
The Toomey-Manchin proposal contains a provision that lets a doctor add a patient to the National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS) without ever telling the patient he or she has been added.The Obama administrations idea of keeping guns out of the hands of the mentally ill is based on a bizarre and discriminatory definition of who might be mentally unstable. Back in 2013 it was reported that the Veterans Administration was sending letters to vets warning them that they might be declared mentally incompetent and have their Second Amendment rights stripped unless they could prove otherwise:This would seem to violate doctor-patient confidentiality, due process and the presumption of innocence in one fell swoop.
As the Heritage Foundation reports, this "gun control legislation eliminates any (Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act) privacy protection for mental health records in connection with the NICS system, leaving only what privacy protection the attorney general cares to provide."
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I hear a lot about this guy lately, but I don’t know who he is.
Need to google...
It’s a shame about Kimmel. He once seemed like a nice, intelligent man.
I’ll say it again- We are one democratic president away from losing our INALIENABLE RIGHT right to the second amendment protection- As soon as a democrat retakes the whitehouse- they WILL re-enact obama’s unconstitutional mental illness/elderly ban on owning guns, and that will start an avalanche of regulations that will be even worse- anyone who has ever taken an anti-depressant, anti-psychotic, anti-anxiety med will be ‘flagged’ whether they are disabled from the illness or not (and note- anti-depressants are not just given for depression- they treat pain as well in an ‘off label’ diagnosis- so anyone being treated for pain with anti-depressants will be flagged as well)
Our ONLY hope will be IF we get another solid conservative on the supreme court, so as to rule these types of restrictions unconstitutional
Kinnel's got 'em, right ?
He must be correct, then.
Kimmel has a late night show aka The Estrogen Hour
Did someone kill off The Jimmy character from The Man Show? “Jimmy is dead...miss him...miss him...miss him”
I really hate to burst lefty bubbles, but Valium isn't a drug prescribed for people who are seriously mentally ill; it's prescribed for people who are under stress - like you might be if you were plotting a mass murder in a very public place, or if you were running guns for bad people, or had somehow gotten yourself mixed up with murderous jihadis.
Social media posting from someone who I trust and who would definitely know:
‘I’ve worked with some of his production staff before. they are all a bunch of butt hurt liberals. He is in direct contact with the DNC and it’s reflected in his nightly monologues. KLA had a report the other night that showed his security people “removing” a large contingent of people from his audience that had Trump wear on. they didn’t fill the seats that were empty so that show they actualy used laugh tracks to make up for the missing crowd’
Did Trump make it easier for Jimmy Kimmel to get guns? If he did then there is JK’s argument right there.
and to the First Amendment, and to whatever is left of the rest of the Constitution.
The safest place to be is at a gun show or a bar that police hang out in.
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