claim: we "have laws on the books designed to prevent people with mental illnesses from getting firearms."
author: paul ryan
evidence_1: feb 28, 2017 ... the rule would have deemed about 75000 people mentally incapable. ... book a  speaker · request permissions · ways to listen · npr extra ... president trump  signed a measure into law tuesday that rescinds an ... "we know that people with  serious mental illness in this country can go buy ... get involved.
evidence_2: mar 13, 2018 ... here are the gun-related fact checks we've done since the shooting. ... speaker  paul ryan, a janesville republican, said we "have laws on the books designed  to prevent people with mental illnesses from getting firearms.".
evidence_3: feb 15, 2018 ... “how do we make sure that individuals with mental illness do not touch a gun? ...  the fact that there is no law on the books in florida that would let the authorities  take ... the co-president of the brady campaign to prevent gun violence. ... on  getting americans with mental illness the help they need,” he said.
evidence_4: policy options to prevent gun ... to mental illness have existed since ... and the  final assumption was that a mere “law on the books,” ... as we have already  discussed, ... the state average being 83% [71]. ... intended goal and thus need to  be ...
evidence_5: oct 3, 2017 ... ... people who are getting disability benefits due to severe mental illness. ... ari  freilich, a staff attorney at the law center to prevent gun ... these are people  with a severe mental illness who can't hold any kind ... “if this was the only action  that congress was going to take on guns, i actually would be kind of ...