Barack Obama is once again circumventing the legislative process in order to push his administration’s unpopular leftist agenda. First, it was illegal immigration, then transgender bathrooms. This time, it’s guns.
Earlier this year, the White House announced new policies for those receiving social security benefits in conjunction with the president’s January 5th executive order on gun ownership. When it was released, few seemed to notice that the order allowed the administration to withhold Second Amendment rights from those who collect social security.
The move makes little logical sense. Social Security beneficiaries have never proven themselves as particularly violent or incapable of gun ownership. Instead, it seems as if this is part of Obama’s larger plan to slowly and surreptitiously restrict gun ownership whenever and wherever possible.
The administration was likely hoping that this slow creep of new regulations would go unnoticed until it was too late to be repealed. Fortunately, the watchful eyes of conservative media caught them in the act.
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I have said this all along
More for him to steal
In two weeks it will be reversed. This jackass foreigner thinks he is funny. Well we are laughing now Barry you powerless POC!
Fi&k you obama
It’s not that simple. A low-level SSA worker can decide, based on their own judgment, to issue SSA or SSI benefits via a payee based on a variety of factors, including a history mismanaging funds, rumored alcoholism or drug use, or full-fledged incompetence. People wrongly assume that, is SSA is issuing benefits via a payee, it’s because a person has been legally declared incompetent. Wrong. If someone doesn’t pay their rent on time, or is home bound or just prefers to have a family member act as payee for convenience, they’re still competent adults, but because each of these people were assigned payees, their second amendment rights are terminated Without involvement of courts or due process. It’s the most demeaning form of discrimination against disabled people I’ve ever witnessed.
Depression is a documented mental health issue that doesn’t make you dangerous or incompetent, so are some phobias. People suffering from MOST mental health issues aren’t incompetent or dangerous. This rule discriminates against disabled people. Besides, that’s only a portion of the people being affected. This action is aimed at any elderly or disabled person who receives their benefits via a payee. People assume that payees are assigned only to those legally declared incompetent or under guardianship orders. This is a dangerously incorrect misconception. Payees are required at the drop of a hat, by low-level SSA workers who believe clients aren’t managing their money well, or whom they suspect may be addicted or just because someone is home bound and it’s easier for a relative to handle paying bills for them. It’s not an official status done via due process, it’s at the discretion of workers without appeal rights.
Another Unconstitutional act.
And they call a Trump a dictator. What a joke.
This man is such an$#%&!@*!!!!! Worst president ever !!!! Hurry up Jan 20th…
“quit condescending to others & follow your own advice. Read through what you just quoted Slowly. “Unable to manage those funds because of their mental impairment “. This means that people who have been assigned a payee to handle their money are being stripped of their rights without due process. If I’m dyslexic and have trouble writing checks & paying bills, SSA will, at the sole discretion of a low level staff member, assign a payee to me. Or if I have major depression and sometimes let the bills fall behind, or if I’m home bound, so my sister takes care of my bills, SSA will determine I meet the criteria of “being unable to manage benefits ” and strip me of my 2nd amendment rights. It’s right there in black and white. So YOU climb down off your high horse because you’re the one that: “really need to read the order before having a knee jerk reaction” yourself.