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'Mentally Incompetent' Americans Would Have Access to Guns Under New Bill
Newsweak ^ | March 4, 2024 | Giulia Carbonaro

Posted on 03/04/2024 6:49:28 PM PST by where's_the_Outrage?

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To: where's_the_Outrage?

Mentally incompetent pedo-grandpa has access to nuclear trigger.
Ponder that!!


21 posted on 03/04/2024 8:17:29 PM PST by Honest Nigerian
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To: where's_the_Outrage?

I remember that part in the 2nd prohibiting incompetents from getting guns....../S


22 posted on 03/04/2024 8:28:34 PM PST by rktman (Destroy America from within? Check! WTH? Enlisted USN 1967 to end up with this💩? 🚫💉! 🇮🇱👍!)
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To: where's_the_Outrage?

The “Mentally Incompetent” already have access to the White House and our entire Dept. of Defense!!!!


23 posted on 03/04/2024 8:48:06 PM PST by G Larry (It's RACIST to impose SLAVE WAGES on LEGAL immigrants and minorities by importing ILLEGAL Laborers)
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To: where's_the_Outrage?

That would stop almost all ‘mass shootings’ - assuming it could actually keep firearms out of demo-commie hands. Which, unfortunately, isn’t feasible.


24 posted on 03/04/2024 9:14:06 PM PST by curious7
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To: jdege

“Having someone appointed to handle your finances does not mean you’ve been adjudicated as mentally incompetent.”


Exactly. I am an attorney, and I have clients who were victimized by this insane rule. The assumption (apparently not subject to rebuttal) has been that if you sign a power of attorney for your financial affairs, you’re “mentally incompetent.” That’s pure hogwash - people sign POAs for a wide variety of reasons...and, in fact, if you actually ARE mentally incompetent, you CANNOT validly sign a POA (or any other legal document, for that matter).

The whole rule was set up to disarm as many members as possible of one of the most politically-conservative groups of people in the country, and should have been ruled unconstititutional long ago.


25 posted on 03/04/2024 9:50:55 PM PST by Ancesthntr (“The right to buy weapons is the right to be free.” ― A.E. Van Vogt, The Weapons Shops of Isher)
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To: where's_the_Outrage?

Hell,they let them serve as president and vice president.


26 posted on 03/04/2024 10:10:02 PM PST by muir_redwoods (Freedom isn't free, liberty isn't liberal and you'll never find anything Right on the Left)
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To: Fester Chugabrew

My youngest son has Asbergers. He is considered disabled.

Don’t ask him to balance a checkbook.

Despite this limitation, he can load, aim, and blow the eyes out of a target down range with no problem. His grouping is spot on!

Tell him to go for the red zone and it’s obliterated; AR, handgun, rifle, doesn’t matter. He is an excellent marksman and follows all the gun safety rules for proper handling.

For fun, he can hack your server in about 15 minutes. The first time he did this was in the 4th grade.

Don’t presume a label tells the truth about a person. He is smart in ways most people can’t imagine.


27 posted on 03/05/2024 1:55:11 AM PST by TheWriterTX (🇺🇸✝️🙏🇮🇱)
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To: Lumper20
Every person in this nation’s military is well trained in weapons use from M-16’s to a sidearm.

Not so much anymore. And, thank God. If/When the govt finally decides to forcibly come after our guns and gold, the last thing we need to deal with is a highly trained military.

28 posted on 03/05/2024 2:38:52 AM PST by eastexsteve
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

veterans deemed unfit to possess a firearm. Making sure the experienced vet cannot be used when needed to protect this land from domestic enemies in control


29 posted on 03/05/2024 2:53:03 AM PST by ronnie raygun
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To: where's_the_Outrage?

We have a mental incompetent who has access to the nuclear arsenal.


30 posted on 03/05/2024 2:54:14 AM PST by Sirius Lee (Tonight on The Bickersons... )
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To: where's_the_Outrage?

The scariest thing about this is that we know who will make the determination of who’s competent and who isn’t. It wouldn’t be scientific; it would be political 100%.


31 posted on 03/05/2024 3:27:15 AM PST by MayflowerMadam (Fraud vitiates everything." - SCOTUS)
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To: where's_the_Outrage?

Biden has access to Nuclear Weapons.
That doesn’t seem to bother Newswreak


32 posted on 03/05/2024 4:02:45 AM PST by Zathras
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33 posted on 03/05/2024 6:24:52 AM PST by PROCON (Sic Semper Tyrannis)
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To: where's_the_Outrage?

Gun problems were solved in 1968. The democrats said so!

“Lawlessness and Chaos” was done away with by the Democrats back in 1968!

“Today we begin to disarm the criminal and the careless and the insane. All of our people who are deeply concerned in this country about law and order should hail this day.”-— Lyndon Johnson signing the 1968 gun control act into law.

And Thomas J. Dodd, who wrote the 1968 gun control act using the 1938 Nazi weapons law as a pattern...

“No one can predict how many lives will be spared because of this bill, but, if the bloody record of our yesterdays is any measure, millions of future Americans will live to enjoy the promise of many peaceful tomorrows.

I am grateful to have had the opportunity to play a part in this great moment in our time.”— Thomas J. Dodd on passage of the 1968 Gun control act.

Once this travesty was signed into “law” instead of shutting off the lights and going home, they began to look for new targets to ban. Their gaze fell upon rifles, something they said they would never go after.


34 posted on 03/05/2024 6:41:49 AM PST by Ruy Dias de Bivar
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To: where's_the_Outrage?

We all know who is responsible for most murders and shootings in the US.


35 posted on 03/05/2024 6:42:12 AM PST by Blood of Tyrants ( "It is easier to fool people than to convince them they have been fooled."- Mark Twain)
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To: curious7
That would stop almost all ‘mass shootings’ - assuming it could actually keep firearms out of demo-commie hands. Which, unfortunately, isn’t feasible.

Not when the fib is recruiting and supplying them.

36 posted on 03/05/2024 6:46:41 AM PST by metmom (He who testifies to these things says, “Surely I am coming soon.” Amen. Come, Lord Jesus…)
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To: Telepathic Intruder

A customer who is a veteran was denied a purchase because she had been deemed as having some mental illness by the VA. It was done without her knowledge. She had to fight with the VA to get the hold removed.


37 posted on 03/05/2024 6:57:56 AM PST by Blood of Tyrants ( "It is easier to fool people than to convince them they have been fooled."- Mark Twain)
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To: where's_the_Outrage?

I’d always trust an armed veteran before I’d ever trust an armed person who can’t even figure out what’s in their own underpants.


38 posted on 03/05/2024 7:23:16 AM PST by SheepWhisperer (Get involved with, or start a home fellowship group. It will be the final church. ACTS 2:42-47)
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To: Telepathic Intruder

‘Mentally Incompetent’ in this sense doesn’t at all mean what people think it means, and includes those who have sought help for PTSD, as well as those who have sought help keeping their bills in order.


39 posted on 03/05/2024 9:11:10 AM PST by lepton ("It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into"--Jonathan Swift)
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To: eastexsteve

I agree with most of your reply. What you fail to point out is sniper training in special forces since my time is awesome. A retired SF MSG. took me to a range at Fort Campbell, KY about 10 years ago. He was awesome. I always listened to SF NCO’s.


40 posted on 03/05/2024 5:01:16 PM PST by Lumper20
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