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By Jonathan Riley

.@POTUS: “I’ll tell you what: I don’t want mentally ill people to be having guns.” pic.twitter.com/2hUoHR2Zg1

— Fox News (@FoxNews) February 28, 2018

Many on the left have been quick to call the President a hypocrite for his newly discovered opinion that the mentally ill aren’t fit to own a gun, given that the first major piece of legislation Trump signed made it easier for people suffering from mental illness to buy a firearm.

Rachel Maddow was one of the first to levy this criticism. Maddow said of this White House, with her characteristic moral indignation, “They don't want to admit that the first materially significant legislation this president signed was specifically and only designed to get more guns into the hands of more seriously mentally ill people.” [*]

Wow. “Seriously mentally ill people.” Sounds awful scary.

The Obama-era regulation Trump repealed identified people who receive Social Security disability benefits due to a mental illness and also who have someone else cash those Social Security checks for them. The regulation that was repealed had made it illegal for those people of buy a firearm and included their names in the National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS) database.Trump reversed that policy. [*]

But now the new woke Trump, the one who said, “I don’t want mentally ill people to be having guns” presumably wants to reverse his previous reversal of the previous regulation.

Well, I’m with Trump on this one. I mean ...well, er, hold on, it’s confusing with this guy, he won’t stick to a position -- I am with the Trump that repealed the law limiting the Second Amendment rights of people on Social Security for a mental health-related disability. I am against the new Trump’s scapegoating of people with mental health problems.

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