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a republican state lawmaker in georgia named rick jasper reese's is proposing
relaxing gun restrictions on the mentally kelso on the one hand we've had
a lot of groups from the right including the n_r_a_ saying that what we need to
look at here in these shootings are mentally ill people
and we need to have uh... uh... even though we don't want stricter gun
control specifically we need
a database and we need to make sure mentally ill people are not getting guns
well now we have this bill if the provoke proposed in georgia
by rick jasper serve republican state rep
called the safe carry and protection act which would allow people who have
voluntarily sought out treatment from not mental illness and substance abuse
to obtain a firearms license anyway
this would also do away with fingerprinting requirements for license
renewals
and it would permit guns in bars
churches
and on college campuses so when you look at the quote and the way most of these
articles are being written jasper says you know
simply being hospitalized doesn't make a person a criminal or threat
and under the proposed bill probate judge would be required to accept
written statements from permit applicants saying i was not
involuntarily hospitalized then it triggers a thirty day period for the
state to say no
they were involuntarily hospitalized they shouldn't have a gun
if the state does not do that that person is than able to own a gun georgia
democrats oppose this they admit they actually don't have the votes to block
it
my problem here is not this that we can have the discussion about
what should the restrictions beyond mental illness gun databases and what
preclude you from owning a gun that's a perfectly fine conversation the problem
is that wrapped in with this
desert not needing
fingerprinting for renewal switch opens up the possibility
of having somebody who has a legal gun then uh... um... of being they could be
call worst or otherwise
agreed to
or even not uh... uh... if even if they don't agree to really
uh... have that license renewed by someone who looks like them or any other
reason
i think things are printing is not a particularly uh... difficult
requirement to have your your got license renewed i think it's pretty
straightforward
i don't like eliminating that and i of course think that permitting guns in
bars is an absolute disaster we need more people with guns where there is
drinking going on so that's actually at my focus which seems to be kind of
hidden in the bill
yeah i'm sure there was one of those things that they carefully try to slide
in there
uh... it seems like they're just so many holes here in so many places where just
human error could completely messed things up and obviously is it's it's a
terrible bill terrible idea
absolutely again not because we can't have a couple we've talked before about
wait a second
if you go
if you're a victim of the sandy hook shooting if your parent of a victim
and you go obtain mental mendala mental health supporter go to a mental health
professional
does that put you on a list we're now
you can get a gun that doesn't really seem like the type of person that we
should really be preventing from having guns in the reality is most of the
people that we've we find perpetrating these crimes may not even really show up
in these databases to begin with so i'm up for exploring that but what's what's
hidden in what's thrown in here as an aside is really concerning yeah that's
uh... what support georgia her
there how did you would you be scared
in georgia because of the few knew it was easier for for people to obtain
these guns in the audience barr says there are people passing legislation
like this their elected officials but this mindset in georgia it's disturbing
of course i'm not going to put the georgie idiots and i think that's the
framework there's concern here