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Straw Man

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6. Mentally ill? From your link ...
Fri Feb 3, 2017, 02:25 PM
Feb 2017
Gun enthusiasts aren’t the only ones skeptical of the disability background check scheme, however. The National Council on Disability, an independent federal agency that advises the government on disability issues, has frowned on the policy.

“Including anyone beyond those who are currently prohibited from gun purchase under existing law in such an effort would advance an inaccurate and discriminatory inference that equates the need for assistance in managing finances with a presumption of incapacity in other areas of life,” the agency said in a statement last year.

Quite a stretch to equate difficulty managing finances with mental illness. How comfortable are you with making the Social Security Administration the arbiter of mental health, without due process?

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