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Posted on 09/21/2017 7:16:39 AM PDT by PROCON
A Wisconsin state lawmaker has proposed a bill that would let people ban themselves from owning handguns as a suicide prevention measure.
The proposal, filed as LRB-3529 by Democrat Rep. Melissa Sargent, would allow people who may be at risk of suicide to ban themselves from being able to buy handguns in Wisconsin.
Individuals who choose to take part in the Firearm Self-Exclusion Program would have the choice of excluding themselves from handgun purchases for one, five or 20 years, with the first year being irrevocable.
“Nearly half of the suicides that occur in Wisconsin annually involve firearms,” Sargent said in a news release, “and this bill can help ensure persons experiencing suicidal ideations or a mental health condition can take proactive steps to keep themselves safe when they’re in crisis.”
Sargent’s bill was modeled after similar gambling self-exclusion programs in other states around the Midwest, the Wisconsin State Journal reported.
Sargent said those who want to take part in the program would have to apply with the Wisconsin Department of Justice. If people involved in the program wish to purchase handguns after the one year irrevocable period, they could reapply with the DOJ so long as a psychiatrist or psychologist assisted them.
While the lawmaker expects there to be heated opposition to the measure, she said the bill was written in such a way that it would not restrict lawful gun owners’ Second Amendment rights.
“This is not a bill that will take away anyone’s guns. This is a voluntary program,” she said. “We’re providing them with a solution, with empowerment … to make them safer.”
The proposed legislation is currently being circulated for co-sponsors.
Real message here:
You see, if you give up your guns, you'll be "safer".
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If it’s voluntary why do we need a program at all. If someone doesn’t trust themselves with a gun they are free to rid themselves of firearms
Isn’t it already legal to not own a weapon?
Why would anybody need a law like this?
Maybe she can convince all of the bad guys to follow through with this and crime with guns will magically go away in Wisconsin. She goes to show that even stupid people need representation.
Because it will be expanded to include “Mental health care professionals” who will be authorized to invoke the law on your behalf.
I think deep within the mind of an anti-gun liberal, there lies this hope that if the “voluntary” program “works” so well, why don’t we make it “mandatory”?
Isn’t it already legal to not own a weapon?
Why would anybody need a law like this?
Some people lack self control — and they’re smart enough to realize it. So they need to be controlled from without.
As long as this proposed law is really as benign as it sounds, and is purely voluntary and revocable, I don’t really have a problem with it. As the article said, it would be similar to the self-bans on gambling that some states have.
I’ve banned myself from dating. Well, that isn’t entirely true, I just stopped asking women out, but it is kind of the same thing.
I thought Democrats were for Euthanasia?
Because now the dems can’t hire someone to write a bot that automatically registers everyone in the state for the program without their knowledge or consent.
While the reasoning for this proposal is ass- backwards wrong and false, there’s just a kernel of intelligence in it, thus: the only pereon or power on earth that has the right to tell you not to own a firearm or not to defend yourself or your family or community — is yourself.
Wait a minute. Liberals WANT people to commit suicide! Especially old White people. Oh, this isn’t about suicide. It’s about guns.
“would allow people who may be at risk of suicide to ban themselves from being able to buy handguns in Wisconsin.”
This sounds like something from South Park.
Utter nonsense.
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YES... people really are that stupid.
Yep - if one decides to give up his guns during a difficult time, I’d wager it might be next to impossible to get them back.....
Maybe it’s like gun buybacks. Give up gun rights and get a free set of Ginsu knives.
“...“I cut his throat to try and get some of the blood out of him,” he later said. ... a knife, the long one with the serrated edge and the Ginsu trademark on the ... First John took off the head, followed by the hands, cutting them just above the wrist...”
Funny how Democrats are all in favor of suicide when it is assisted by a physician but if it involves only the victim and his firearm it becomes a problem.
Makes one wonder about their true motives.
Anyone who does not trust himself to be armed is free to remain unarmed. Don’t need a law for that!
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