Fake News: MSNBC’s Greta Suggests Trump, GOP Made It Easier for Mentally Ill to Buy Guns – IOTW Report

Fake News: MSNBC’s Greta Suggests Trump, GOP Made It Easier for Mentally Ill to Buy Guns

Breitbart: During the March 7 airing of MSNBC’s On The Record with Greta, host Greta Van Susteren suggested the Trump and GOP-led repeal of the Social Security gun ban make it easier for the mentally ill to buy guns.

This is Fake News 101, and it is a continuation of the same tired mantra that NBC News and SELF magazine pushed last week. SELF claimed Trump ended background checks for the severely mentally ill, and NBC News claimed Trump ended “gun checks for people with mental illness.”

In reality, the GOP-led House voted to repeal the Social Security gun ban on February 2, the Senate followed suit on February 15, and President Trump signed the repeal on February 28. The concern in all cases was that Obama’s Social Security gun ban not only violated Second Amendment rights but did so by trampling on Due Process rights. After all, the gun ban allowed the Social Security Administration to investigate beneficiaries then use a mental health moniker to bar them from gun purchases.

Duke University psychiatry and behavioral science professor Jeffrey Swanson looked at the gun ban and warned that the mental health was so broad it covered everything from “depression” to “schizophrenia.” Because of this, Swanson said Obama’s gun ban “[takes] away the gun rights of a large category of individuals without any evidence that they pose a risk of harm to self or others.”

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22 Comments on Fake News: MSNBC’s Greta Suggests Trump, GOP Made It Easier for Mentally Ill to Buy Guns

  1. I get there’s people that don’t like guns. Are afraid of guns. I have no problem with that. But don’t get in the way of me and my constitutional rights. I carry if I’m standing up. One exception is the gym. Weekly I stand behind or in front of people at the grocery store that I would think would freak if they knew I was strapped up. Mean while we carry on a pleasant conversation about the weather. My gun hasn’t gone full on phsyco and shot one of them. Yet.

  2. So if I pay my folks bills they can take away their guns.
    I don’t think so.
    Greta needs to put a hook in her other lip to match the other side.
    I still have not found a reason to stop hating true lefties, harsh, to bad for them, they will be our downfall. To bad about her but she has always been anti gun.
    Can’t wait for “Me again” to get back on the air.
    Then we can beat her up to.

  3. @Bad_Brad: Yep, in my firearms classes I have put a revolver on the desk and call it every nasty name in the book, and including it’s mother. It just lays there. Not unlike a: knife, machete, ax, automobile, truck, etc…

  4. That right there is the kind of thinking that put us this far away (thumb & index finger 1/8th” apart) from having people declared “mentally ill” for simply owning a gun. That is a slippery-slope if I ever saw one because the next logical step is to have people declared unfit, mentally ill or whatever for anything the Left disagrees with. We’ve seen it time and again before with every dictator down thru history. This was exactly the direction we were headed for with the Marxist Muzlim Mallard and his new Communism of of unnecessary, over-reaching, over-bearing, out-of-control, dictatorial “regulation”, insane Bathroom Rules for Radicals, and “sanitized transcripts” for our “protection”.
    We still have CNN to beat the Communist drum for the radical Left. Call them out for what they do, what they are and who funds and supports them. It is a sizable mob!

  5. Greta, Camerota, etc, have proven that most of the “news” anchors are nothing more than actors who will play whatever part they’re told, or paid to.

    There are only a very few who are actually who they appear to be.

  6. I’m all for barring crazy people from buying guns. But the fucking law needs to be carefully written. If the jooo fucking lawyers would write the correct laws, this issue could be put to bed.

    Good for our President for un-doing this piece of shit.

    Then again when ‘ifs and buts become candy and nuts’ then every day will be Christmas.

  7. Bad Brad; I’m glad you carry and I hope there are a lot more doing it. Too bad that guy in san fran that got beat up on the freeway by bikers wasn’t carrying. And the CHP says they won’t go after these guys! WOW!
    No wonder they’re taking over the freeways.

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