The US House of Representatives recently passed a legislation to help keep guns out of hands of the mentally ill. The measure would be the first major gun control bill enacted since 1994 and bolster background checks for gun buyer.
The National Rifle Association responded immediately condemning the bill. "This is an outrage!" recently appointed NRA President John C. Sigler remarked. "Mentally ill have the right to defend themselves as much as mentally stable people!" Mentally ill were already targeted in the 1968 Gun Control Act, which prohibited anyone found by a court to be "a mental defective" from possessing a gun. It also bars felons, fugitives, drug addicts and wife beaters. "Ever since the 1968 we've had our second amendment rights chipped away," Sigler continued. "And why wife beaters should not be allowed to defend themselves is beyond me. There is a reason they are beating their psychotic bitches after all." It is generally accepted that NRA's rabid reaction is because most of their 4 million members would immediately lose their right to bear arms where the bill to be passed in Senate. NRA disagrees with this and will send Charlton Heston over to scare the living bejesus out of anyone furthering this opinion. The Senators supporting the bill points out that Charlton Heston's Alzheimer's disease makes him a candidate to be classified as mentally ill. "That is pure nonsense!" Sigler stated responded. "People with Alzheimer's disease have the right to defend themselves as much as people who can actually remember whom they are defending themselves against!"
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