Posted on 12/14/2015 2:12:17 PM PST by Olog-hai
Advocates for gun safety are among those telling a congressman that closing loopholes in federal background checks and providing more mental health help would reduce gun violence.
U.S. Rep. Mike Thompson, chairman of House Democrats' Gun Violence Prevention Task Force, held a hearing Monday, less than two weeks after 14 people were fatally shot in San Bernardino. ...
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Might be helpful if governments could be trusted. The Soviet Union used to brand dissidents as psych cases and imprison them in mental “hospitals”.
Mental health care for everyone.
Registration to begin soon.
‘Advocates for gun safety’ is a thinly veiled euphamism for gun banner. They could care less about safety. Their goal is general disarmament of the populace.
The US will apply the mental health gun ban ONLY TO Americans- White Americans- White American conservative- no one else- it will do nothing to curb gun violence
Ban all Democrats from ever owning guns. 95% of the problem sol-ved.
They have already proven they are not mentally stable by their voting patterns
I thought all they needed was jobs ?
Yes, but then what would become of the DNC?
I kid you not.
Meanwhile most “mass shooters” are already on some kind of psych med.
Agree. I was a trauma ICU nurse for 6 years. A reduction in drinking would prevent most motor vehicle accidents too.
It’s not alcohol in the case of Muslim terrorism.
They just don’t get it.
Andrew Malcolm
Political News & Commentary
ObamaCare Extended To Policing Gun Ownership
BY THOMAS MCARDLE
11:09 AM ET
“If you like your gun, you can keep your gun” is definitely not anything you’ll be hearing from President Obama soon.
You may never have thought that a simple visit to the doctor could lead to the FBI breathing down your neck, but the president’s new executive actions on gun control could lead to just that, mortally wounding the long-established presumption of doctor-patient confidentiality.
Obama’s directives apparently trump long-standing federal rules preventing doctors from disclosing mental health matters. Now the executive branch will “expressly permit certain HIPAA (Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996) covered entities to disclose to the National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS) the identities of individuals who are subject to a Federal ‘mental health prohibitor’ that disqualifies them from shipping, transporting, possessing or receiving a firearm.”
Currently, if a doctor discloses a patient’s private information without that patient’s authorization, the physician could be sued for malpractice or invasion of privacy. The president now apparently wants violating that confidential bond to be treated as an act that promotes public safety.
And the question of “mental health” is entirely subjective. If you tell your doctor you woke up Monday morning feeling like killing yourself, or that your spouse made you mad enough to reach for your hunting rifle, will that warrant a call to the FBI? Will a federal SWAT team then pounce, just in case you have a gun or two in the house? Such law enforcement overreach is by no means an outlandish scenario.
The ObamaCare database, it turns out, was only the beginning of this administration’s violations of the medical privacy of Americans. Now doctors are set to be enlisted in the nation’s federal gun police.
http://news.investors.com/010516-788091-obamacare-extended-to-policing-guns.htm
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