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Obama proposes new gun rules for mentally ill
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[quote:Anonymous Coward 1044117:MV8yNDUwNjAzXzQyMTUwNTM5XzczN0U2Njk4] There are many mentally ill people. Many are homeless. How do they obtain guns? If you don't sell guns to them, how do they still get them? Off the street, theft, or someone allows them access to one. How do you stop them from getting hold of a gun? We the people should be the ones asking these questions, and keeping Washington out of it. We need to police ourselves, sometimes, and not give them an excuse to butt in. [/quote]
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] The Obama administration proposed two new federal gun control rules Friday to ensure more information about the mentally ill reaches background check databases, after a series of high-profile US shootings.
The rules come on top of a series of
executive actions President Barack Obama announced after the Newtown, Connecticut school shooting that left 20 young children and six staff dead in December 2012.
The massacre relaunched a push for gun control laws in America and a handful of states have since tightened gun rules.
But the national measures Obama sought, including a plan for enhanced background checks on gun buyers and a ban on assault-style rifles, failed in the US Senate in April due to fierce opposition from gun rights supporters.
In the first nine months of 2013 following a presidential directive, federal agencies have provided more than 1.2 million records identifying persons prohibited from buying or owning guns for mental health reasons, the White House said.
The figure is a 23 percent increase from the number of records tha
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