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Ruark wrote:

bmwrdr wrote: "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."

What is a "condition"??? So if the elderly person who lives alone in a rough neighborhood has a "condition" or "disease" - say he uses a cane or walker - he couldn't purchase a firearm for home security? Surely this bill won't survive....

That's what I think, if a person requires a wheelchair AND receives social security benefits she or he would be disqualified from a firearm purchase. That is discrimination in my opinion.
The 2nd issue comes to my mind is the waste of tax money spent with time and effort invested in such a nonsense while the real issues like border security, gand crime, drug related crimes etc. are too challenging for the very same group of individuals coming up with nonsense like that.
There wasn't an elderly or disabled individual shooting up a cinema or a military base.

The Annoyed Man wrote:This president, and his party, are a greater existential threat to liberty and the constitutional rule of law than any threat presented by ISIS.

While reading the article posted originally I agree. In the country illegally should mean there is no SS benefit for that group of people and that particular problem deserves to be addressed first.
The second statement from that article shows the implied inaptness of our administration. None of the recent and past shooters was a SS benefit recipient. The trend actually points to people with a particular religious background and drug or psychological problems.
In other words, our administration addresses some unimportant steps because the real issues seem to complicated and politically sensitive in order to be addressed first.

"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."
Source: http://www.latimes.com/nation/politics/ ... tml#page=1

"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."
Source: http://www.latimes.com/nation/politics/ ... tml#page=1