{"id":60921,"date":"2015-07-20T07:48:15","date_gmt":"2015-07-20T11:48:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=60921"},"modified":"2015-07-20T07:51:03","modified_gmt":"2015-07-20T11:51:03","slug":"obama-targets-social-security-recipients-for-gun-seizure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=60921","title":{"rendered":"Obama targets social security recipients for gun seizure"},"content":{"rendered":"

A couple of folks have sent us a link to the LA Times<\/a> about the latest attempt by the White House to disarm Americans. Most of us know how they’ve disarmed some veterans that the Department of Veterans’ Affairs has determined are unable to manage their financial affairs. The Obama Administration now plans to do the same with Social Security recipients, entering the names of folks who aren’t particularly adept at paying their bills;<\/p>\n

If Social Security, which has never participated in the background check system, uses the same standard as the VA, millions of its beneficiaries would be affected. About 4.2 million adults receive monthly benefits that are managed by “representative payees.”<\/p>\n

The move is part of a concerted effort by the Obama administration after the 2012 Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting in Newtown, Conn., to strengthen gun control, including by plugging holes in the background check system.<\/p>\n

But critics \u2014 including gun rights activists, mental health experts and advocates for the disabled \u2014 say that expanding the list of prohibited gun owners based on financial competence is wrongheaded.<\/p>\n

Though such a ban would keep at least some people who pose a danger to themselves or others from owning guns, the strategy undoubtedly would also include numerous people who may just have a bad memory or difficulty balancing a checkbook, the critics argue.<\/p>\n

“Someone can be incapable of managing their funds but not be dangerous, violent or unsafe,” said Dr. Marc Rosen, a Yale psychiatrist who has studied how veterans with mental health problems manage their money. “They are very different determinations.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Well, since this crowd considers all gun owners to be dangerous, common sense won’t apply. The standard that the VA used to weed out veterans that they could place a flag on in the NICS background check system would be applied to Social Security recipients;<\/p>\n

More than half of the names on the VA list are of people 80 or older, often suffering from dementia, a reasonable criterion for prohibiting gun ownership.<\/p>\n

But the category also includes anybody found by a “court, board, commission or other lawful authority” to be lacking “the mental capacity to contract or manage his own affairs” for a wide variety of reasons.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Dementia, I can understand, along with folks who have contemplated suicide, but not people who can’t pay their bills, for Pete’s sake. I’ve heard from folks who tell me that having some bills on “auto-pay” has put them in that category. The example of a veteran whose wife has been put in charge of his financial affairs had his guns taken away by the VA is in the LA Times article. <\/p>\n

But, I guess when your end game is to disarm the American People, any excuse will do just fine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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