Last month Tom Arnold sent out an insane tweet that sure looked like he was threatening to decapitate President Trump. Earlier this week Tommy got a visit from the Secret Service, apparently over the tweet, so he’s done saying insane stuff about Trump. He’s however not done saying insane things in general because he’s still Tom Arnold. His latest bit of crazy garbage is a whopper of a lie about guns, the NRA, Trump, and Obama. The only good news is he managed not to threaten the life of the President of the United States.
Here’s what spewed out of Arnold’s trouble mind yesterday:
@NRA made Trump overturn a bill blocking folks with mental issues from getting guns so I can be a drug addict, alcoholic, 7 arrests, mental health issues & walk into gun show & buy AR-15 without background check thanks to you @NRA @realDonaldTrump blocking common sense gun reform
— Tom Arnold (@TomArnold) November 28, 2018
Everything in that tweet is a lie with maybe the exception that Arnold admits to being a drug-addicted alcoholic with mental health problems. For some reason I have no trouble believing that, but I don’t know if he’s actually been arrested 7 times. Maybe he has, especially if being a talentless loser is a crime.
First up, the “bill” Arnold is talking about was actually an executive order issued by Barack Obama. This unconstitutional order allowed government bureaucrats to declare Social Security recipients mentally unfit without a medical examine or trial and take their guns away from them. This thing was such a hot mess that even the ACLU was opposed to it. In any case, the thing Arnold calls a bill never blocked anyone who is insane from owning guns and by getting rid of it Trump didn’t authorize crazy people to acquire firearms.
Also, while we’re on the subject, presidents don’t have the authority to overturn laws like Arnold states. Presidents can veto bills, but once a bill is a law there’s nothing the president can do about except the way Obama chose to ignore the enforcement of certain laws he didn’t like.
The NRA didn’t make Trump get rid of Obama’s illegal executive order, he chose to do it because it was unconstitutional and wrong. Truth be told, the ACLU exerted more pressure to have the order overturned than any group.
Next on the list of lies is Arnold’s assertion that Trump doing away with Obama’s order allows drug addicts, felons, and crazy people to legally purchase firearms. These classes of people are banned by law from owning or possessing a firearm and nothing changed with by Trump restoring the due process and gun ownership rights of Social Security recipients.
Arnold is also lying about his ability to walk into a gun show and buy an AR-15 without a background check. He lives in California and the AR-15, as the rest of the country knows it, is illegal, plus no gun can be sold or transferred in Cali without a background check.
The biggest lie in this tweet however is that the NRA and Trump are blocking “commonsense gun reform” because that’s a made-up term like “assault rifle” that doesn’t exist. This is liberal euphemism for unconstitutional gun control. Taking away people’s rights is neither a reform nor anything that makes sense to the common man or woman. Besides, the NRA is a civil rights organization, not elected officials, and they can’t block legislation while Trump has never once vetoed a gun bill.
Arnold’s tweet is only one sentence long but a kind estimation is that it contains 9 lies, which has to be a world record. He may not be talented, intelligent, or employed but he can call himself the most full of shit person on the planet and that’s not nothing.
