Quote Originally Posted by Frodo View Post
He did manage to pass a law so that people with mental health issues had to pass background checks before purchasing guns... But that was revoked by your mate Trump! Any excuses for that one?
this Obama era proposal never came into law.
he proposed it in the dying days of his Presidency and never followed it through. Neither did his Democrat mates.

Trump essentially rescinded a law that didnt exist anyway.
And if you want the skinny on it, the law that was rescinded was about the sharing of information between some certain agencies. There were never any 'different' laws proposed. Just the sharing of information.

Mentally ill people still need to pass the same background check today that they did in the Obama days. Nothing has changed.


As for his other proposal post Sandy Hook. this has been going on since the Clinton Presidency. Universal background checks are required by law for sales made by licenced dealers. Nothing has changed there. Its the 'gun show loophole' that is the major sticking point, people still need to be licenced to 'buy' a gun from a private citizen, but the background checks are not as strict.

i totally agree that it would be great to close that loophole, but in the last 30 years about 80% of Mass Shootings have been committed by people using legally obtained guns. The gun problem is way bigger than a token law that never got implemented.

I think Trump is just as big a coward on the gun issue as the rest of them. But its the people who try to single Obama out as the "oh well he tried" guy that infuriate me.
He was, for 8 years, "the most powerful person on the planet" and did nothing on guns. he had the majority of both houses for a significant amount of time and did nothing on guns. he talked a lot on massacres, he did nothing on guns.