The vote to keep guns out of mentally disturbed people just got shot down

I think you need to inject a little truth here, you see the NRA, the American Civil Liberty Union, and disability rights activist weighing in on the same side of the issue you might want to look if the issue is really what people are saying it is.

I am not comfortable with the social security office being an arm of the FBI in determining who is able to have a certain right. The ACLU thinks the bill does not have enough checks and balances so as not to be improperly applied. The rule also perpetuates the stigma that people with mental illness are behind gun violence in America. In reality, studies show people with mental illness are more likely to be victims, not perpetrators, of violence, and that very few violent acts — about 3 to 5 percent — are carried out by those with serious mental illness and those don't all involve guns.

There are a lot of impediments mostly in the attitudes of people about the mentally ill that keep people from seeking help they need for their conditions this just adds to the list without providing a clear benefit.

which bill? There are already laws in place for people with any form of mental history.

Yes because that would be crazy ....effing guns are more important then common sense

No surprise. A few years back the NRA funded a campaign to kill a bill that would have banned people on terror watch lists from purchasing guns. So next time you hear about a terrorist walking into a gun store and buying up an armoury worth of weapons and ammo you know who to thank.

No rage babe, just facts coupled with plain old common sense. For all the effort by the left to restrict the purchase of guns there has not been even one that would have prevented ANY incident we have witnessed. It's not difficult to see that so why the continued effort. It can only be interpreted as an effort to separate law aiding citizens from their Supreme Court affirmed Second amendment right. Anyone concerned about the loss of innocent lives need only look to the cities where shootings and killings are more common than not. Doesn't take a lot of thought to see what's going on here, just thought.

There's a lot of money to be made from selling guns. Greed rules. End of story.

Well it depends on the definition of mentally disturbed. Those on antidepressants or those in the cookoo house? I don't think mentally disturbed is the term they used.

Which bill? ... wasn't aware they were voting on anything the last few days

We're you on EP?

LOL ! This is why I think the gun nuts are full of baloney about caring about mass shootings. Even moderate control, to keep guns out of the hands of people with mental problems (and those on terrorist watch lists) is too much for them. I think they're afraid their loved ones might be assessed as mentally ill or might turn up as domestic terrorists---then to whom would they leave their arsenals ? 🤔