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Expect to see liberal opposition to some common-sense (yeah, I had to use their words!) gun issues.<\/p>\n
As part of the process of reporting problem children to the background check system (NCIS) such as felons, felony domestic abusers, et al, VA also reports veterans who needed fiduciary assistance in managing their money. So if you are one of those unlucky folks who need help with managing your cash flow (seemingly half the privates I ever knew, and I won’t even go into spouses), VA calls you insane and thinks you should be barred\u00a0 from owning a gun. Of course, this is wrapped in pious do-goodism “we have to do something about the 68% of veteran suicides committed with gunz”, despite a decided lack of data connecting needing help managing money with gun suicides.<\/p>\n
By law, veterans who are incapable of overseeing their own bills may be assigned a fiduciary who manages a veteran’s financial affairs — assistance the VA reports to the background check system as a disability that may preclude the veteran from purchasing a firearm.<\/p>\n
Bost said VA staff’s ability to decide that a veteran who can’t manage their bills is a danger to themselves or society is a form of discrimination that he argues may actually hurt a veteran by preventing them from seeking care and benefits from the VA.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Rep. Mike Bost, R-IL has reintroduced legislation to force VA to add another layer in this process to evaluate whether this ‘disabled’ vet really is a danger to himself or others if he gets a gun. Seems logical, right?<\/p>\n
“No VA bureaucrat should have the ability to instantly strip a veteran of their 2nd Amendment Rights simply because they use a fiduciary to help them manage their benefits. I have heard from veterans that this current policy stops them from going to the VA for care and services,” he said in a statement Friday.<\/p>\n
Bost previously introduced the bill in 2021, but it was not considered by the House Veterans Affairs Committee in the majority Democrat House.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
A version of the bill also passed the House in 2018 but was unable to get through the Senate.<\/p>\n
Speaking on the House floor during debate on the legislation in 2017, Rep. Mark Takano, D-Calif., now the House Veterans Affairs Committee ranking member…”To be clear, there are veterans currently flagged in the background check system who should not be there, and we need to create a fair and streamlined process for veterans to appeal their status,” Takano said at the time. “But there is a balance between protecting veterans’ Second Amendment rights and protecting veterans who are a danger to themselves or others.”\u00a0 Military Times<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Usual thinking – someone may cause a problem with a gun, so none of them should have one. Expect to see the usual media push-back, “blood in the streets”, “gun-buying mentally defective vets” etc.\u00a0 Oh, heck, let’s just say no one can have a gun at all. It’s all worked so well in all those other Utopias like China, Nazi Germany, Venezuela, etc.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"