Right wing politicians and talking heads calling every white mass shooter as mentally ill already does that job perfectly. I doubt most people even knew what the actual details of the Obama regulation was. But Fox News screaming at the top of the lungs that the shooters are mentally ill has more impact on public perception of the mentally ill.
That depends on if you think obligations to moral relativity belay chaos, or order.
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I'm not saying it's wrong or right. Just that I know plenty that were praising them when I think they'd be at odds with plenty of the ALCU's other actions that they're unaware of. Just thought it was kind of odd.
Uh, am I missing something here? Proposing a link between an inability to manage finances and a propensity towards violence seems dubious at best, so putting these people under increased scrutiny seems kinda ableist.
If there was a law that barred black people from owning guns would you be ok with that?
And that's kind of the point. If you're going to deny a group guns, you need sound fact based reasons to do so. Like they're an abusive spouse, or a violent criminal, not that they've got some kind of mental disability that means they can't manage their finances, unless you've demonstrated a link between that and violent behavior.
What does someone who can't manage their own finances need a gun for?
It wouldn't have no. Not that that's a good way of thinking about it.
I'm pro-ACLU and generally pro-2nd amendment, but I am fine with barring mentally impaired people from owning guns. Black people are not mentally impaired, so I am fine with black people owning guns. Unless of course we're talking about a mentally impaired person who also happens to be black, in which case we're back to no-guns-for-you.
Because it inherently calls for violence to be enacted upon others.
Is there there any evidence that people with Down syndrome commit more gun crimes than the general populace or is your opinion pulled from your ass based on what you think a person with Down syndrome is capable of doing?
Black people used to be worth only 3/5ths of a White person. A blanket statement like mental illness is hardly sensitive to malady, intensity, or temperament.
The law doesn't require a hearing, a doctors opinion or any sort of evidence that the person is unfit to have a gun. It just lumps together people with mental illness, disabilities and those who can't manage their benefts based on stereotypes. It's a discriminatory law.
