Does Tom Arnold ever get tired of spouting total BS? Apparently not. Here’s his latest on Donald Trump, the NRA and allowing people with mental health issues to get access to guns:
@NRA made Trump overturn a bill blocking folks with mental issues from getting guns so I can be a drug addict, alcoholic, 7 arrests, mental health issues & walk into gun show & buy AR-15 without background check thanks to you @NRA @realDonaldTrump blocking common sense gun reform
— Tom Arnold (@TomArnold) November 28, 2018
And here’s the fact check from NRA spox Dana Loesch:
This isn’t correct. Trump simply reversed an Obama-era order that allowed bureaucrats to declare social security beneficiaries mentally unfit without actual mental health evaluations or any due process. He simply restored the previous SOP of due process. https://t.co/Y1AuySM4ST
— Dana Loesch (@DLoesch) November 28, 2018
Maybe Arnold missed how the ACLU also supported Trump overturning this rule?
A broad spectrum of groups from the NRA to the ACLU, to mental health orgs all support repeal. More D's should break w/Bloomberg on this. https://t.co/f1mt9a0vLo
— Cam Edwards (@CamEdwards) February 15, 2017
More from Charles C.W. Cooke on this from last year:
This is wildly misleading. House rolled back one rule that was much-criticized by doctors and disability advocates. https://t.co/X3G6GU1mWr
— Charles C. W. Cooke (@charlescwcooke) February 2, 2017
That rule applied to Americans on social security disability allowance and would have removed 2A rights without solid due process.
— Charles C. W. Cooke (@charlescwcooke) February 2, 2017
It was a bad idea from the start, not only on separation of powers grounds, but on the merits. The background check system remains in place.
— Charles C. W. Cooke (@charlescwcooke) February 2, 2017
The rule, for those interested, cast as mentally incapable anyone who couldn’t manage his own finances. It was criticized on Left and Right.
— Charles C. W. Cooke (@charlescwcooke) February 2, 2017
So now hundreds of thousands of people will think Congress repealed the Brady Bill. And that’s deliberate. The AP did that deliberately.
— Charles C. W. Cooke (@charlescwcooke) February 2, 2017
How unpopular was this rule? It brought together the NRA, ACLU, and disability charities and mental health professionals on both sides
— Charles C. W. Cooke (@charlescwcooke) February 2, 2017
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'God bless': Dana Loesch out-classes Tom Arnold (again) after he takes sick swipes at her https://t.co/H83iof8bvY
— Twitchy Team (@TwitchyTeam) November 27, 2018
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