Posted on 01/12/2013 7:16:23 AM PST by Tailgunner Joe
ObamaCare will play a big part in determining who is mentally prohibited from owning guns.
Psychiatric records have even more strigent privacy rules. I am a Family Physician and I get no records sent on my own patients about their treatment etc. from psychiatrists etc. I is like puling teeth to get even their diagnosis. But, guess whose office they show up in when they are in crisis. Mine !!! I have to call the police sometimes cause they are psychotic. Have had it happen 2 days after discharge from Psych hospital.
>>How about mental health exams for politicians?
Keeping mental cases out of elected office would save more lives than every kind of gun control imaginable.<<
Best post of the day.
The Left is pretty good about playing both ends of a crisis:
We don’t have to put “armed guards in schools”, which was STUPID for the NRA to suggest, or even arm and train teachers. All we have to do is LET THOSE WHO WANT TO CARRY, CARRY. This is as simple as repealing the Gun Free School Zones Act.
I know dozens of retired peace officers that would volunteer to patrol the school area one day a week and keep the peace.
Worth repeating. While Franken is asking for more counselors what we will end up with is less counseling (at $100 an hour) and more pills ($10 a month for the generic stuff). Pills without proper supervision are much more dangerous than no treatment at all.
Not to mention this is all part of the ongoing effort to turn American into pill popping zombies who vote only for more pills. It is fair to say that such people (I know a bunch of them) gave Obama his margin of victory here in Virginia.
I can only assume that members of Congress are exempt. If not, we might be seeing quite a few of them leaving office.
Most gun murders are drug/gang related. Most mass shootings are psychotropic drug related. More people die from RX drug overdoses each year than from murder by firearm. Given all these facts the wizards of smart in Washington DC want to restrict the Constitutional rights of law abiding citizens. Does anyone doubt for a moment that if they succeed in destroying the 2nd Amendment they will immediately come after the 1st, starting with restrictions on the internet?
The titles and summaries of Dem bills always sound good. The problem resides in what is buried within and the riders attached.
Trust him and his bill? No.
(at least not until they pass it so they can find out what is in it)
I get it. It’s the DemoRat mental health decade.
Yes, and they can immediately trash the 4th by stopping cats to look for illegal gun traffickers. The 5th will go after that when they expand New York v. Quarles to include any government records of guns, ammo, parts, or anything related.
I should have said stopping cars. But there was a cat lying on top of me and I mistyped.
Takes one to know one!
As the sister of a violent schizophrenic who wasn’t put in the psyche ward until after he killed someone, I can say that anything that makes it easier to identify and commit violently mentally ill people to a secure treatment facility would be a good thing.
Also, as a general crime fighting matter, our culture would do well to really know our neighbors.
Ya, lets have every politician checked out for mental competency also!
More counselors in schools = More targets for nut cases
People have bodyguards with guns in order to protect them from some crazy person getting them. Crazy is the keyword and the main part of the problem that should be addressed.
In my opinion, the mental health issues manifest in DC amongst the political Royalty who are delusional and think they’re Gods.
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