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Democrats Demand VA Confiscates Guns From Certain Veterans

Looks like the Democrats have swarmed together to take another shot at getting rid of guns.

So, here’s the rub. This time they’re taking on veterans.

They’re wanting the Veterans Affairs disarm certain veterans under ‘mentally incompetent’, stomping on the Second Amendment.

And they’re making a bogus comparison with a shooter, Robert Card, from Maine who killed 18 people last October.

They’re reaching for straws, trying to use emotion to close the deal.

So, business as usual for these Democrats.

Gateway Pundit reports:

Last week, a consortium of Democrat lawmakers in the House signed a joint letter suggesting infringements on certain veterans’ Second Amendment Rights because of a “mentally incompetent” diagnosis from Veterans Affairs (VA) rating agencies.  The current regulation regarding VA pensions, 38 CFR 3.353, defines “mentally incompetent” as “A…person is one who because of injury or disease lacks the mental capacity to contract or to manage his or her own affairs, including disbursement of funds without limitation.”

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The “official determination” of mental incompetency is made by the VA rating agencies, who have “sole authority” in making such a determination.  According to the regulation, the determination is made for purposes of insurance and disbursement of benefits.  This regulation does not address “determinations of insanity,” as that is the very next code, 38 CFR 3.354, and not a subject of the bill’s amendment.

The Democrats make reference to Robert Card, the alleged shooter from Maine who killed 18 people last October.  The letter considers Card a “reminder of what can happen when red flags are not taken seriously.”  But Card, as far as has been reported, was not adjudicated as “mentally incompetent.”  In fact, Card was reportedly still in the Army Reserves.

However, according to the New York Post, Card was committed to a mental facility for two weeks in the summer prior.  This would have been a ‘yellow flag’ (as it’s referred to in Maine law).  The ATF form required for background checks prior to a gun purchase, Form 4473, explicitly asks, “Have you ever been adjudicated as a mental defective OR have you ever been committed to a mental institution?”

The Democrats who signed on to this letter are calling for the infringement on the Second Amendment Rights of veterans that is not equaled in civilian requirements while using a propagandized comparison that does not equate.  Card should have been flagged after being committed to a mental facility, not because he couldn’t manage his finances (‘mentally incompetent’).

Ironically, the Democrats who are promoting the infringement of veterans’ rights without due process are silent when it comes to gender dysphoria, a mental disorder according to the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders.  While the Democrats opine that their pushback to the Amendment is to protect suicidal veterans, they conveniently ignore one of the most vulnerable demographics when it comes to self-harm and suicide: the transgender community.

Seems like Democrats don’t really care about human life.

Maybe they have another agenda?

Maybe veterans with guns isn’t the real gun issue.

Perhaps Democrats should focus their target elsewhere.

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And more students getting shot at in Florida not even 3 weeks ago:

Perhaps Democrats should start dealing with the real gun violence instead.

But they don’t want to.

Seems they just want to disarm law-abiding citizens.

That’s odd.


 

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