The people who elected this POS need to wake up and recall his ass! This arrogant a**hole has no business wearing a badge.
Is he going to station a deputy every quarter mile in the county in order to ensure a response time of seconds?
This whole country has become one giant mental institution. These guys are going to be busy going through everyone’s “health record”.
Or is this just a "commonsense" restriction, giving the appearance of "doing something", while increasing the Dept. of Paperwork's workload?
What happens to patient/doctor confidentiality?
Here's the real problem....Pysciatrists are supposed to report extremes....Holmes is the perfect example...That doctor was obligated...but neglected to follow through....Loughner also fits this problem
Another problems is...no one will listen to you if nothing has occurred. Lanza's mother would have been told to go home.
If you are "mentally defective", what are the chances that you would give a truthful answer to this question?
Looks like the sheriff is pushing for crazy people to buy long guns.
Who are they to do any judging?
http://www.rowancountync.gov/GOVERNMENT/Departments/SheriffsOffice.aspx
Look at “Doughboy” O and this POS “area” is where Elisebeth Dole is from.
So the result of measures like these is... people won’t seek help for depression or any other mental-health malady. While the gun-banners are soooo anxious to appear to “do something,” the “something” that will occur is more untreated people on the streets.
It will ultimately rest on the say of some medical practitioner, and the operative word is “liability.” No one will want to affirm that any applicant is mentally non-hazardous.
The next step, of course, will be to open the path for virtually anyone of little achievement and education (e.g., government officials) to be able to enter items into one’s health record...thereby providing a means to hold weapons from anyone of choice.
By the way, anyone seen the bat-eared-b*stard’s health records?
Or his school records?
Or his passport?
Or his SS card?
Or his REAL birth certificates.
Heh.
How can a person release his mental health records when he does not have any mental health records? Reminds me of a quip by George Wallace in ‘68. He was asked about his Army discharge in 45 that said he has a 10% mental health disability. He told the reporter that he had a govt document that testified he was 90% sane and asked the reporter to ask Nixon and Humphrey to prove they were more sane than he was.
So when a person wants to exercise their right to keep and bear arms, they have to give up their right to privacy.
Interesting....
This question surely raises a cunundrum.
I used to say I had a ‘piece of paper’ saying I was sane as I took and passed the psych test as part of qualifying for Submarine Service.
Recently I have openly admitted that the test proves I -or one of us- is actually crazy as a sane person certainly wouldn’t place himself in a steel tube and allow himself to be ‘sunk’ for long periods of time, jump out of perfectly good airplanes, or, much the same as SEALs, SPEC OPS, etc must have a touch of insanity (of the same respect) as the normal wimp wouldn’t dream of doing what they ACTUALLY do.
Add to the mix that I was a very good High Speed Morse Code Operator and - in their eyes - I must be a raving lunatic.
I have ‘worried’ for awhile that those that have ‘accepted’ PTSD status are going to be in danger of losing their 2nd Amendment rights, as Ayn Rand so graciously put it - ‘make enough stupid laws and eventually everyone is a criminal’.
“We felt it was good to improve the process and make it a little more thorough,” he said
I don't think a sheriff's office is qualified to judge the mental competency of anyone. Are they going to hire a team of medical professionals? Does the applicant get a chance for a current mental health evaluation, or does anything remotely questionable in a person's past disqualify them permanently?
This is a really good law!/s
I can just see it now. All those folks who are contemplating seeking medical help for depression will certainly seek it now - by going down to the local gun store instead of to their local quack. And if there’s no record of their ever having been treated for any kind of mental illness, well.....
Can these idiots not look one move ahead?
Come on you guys, you’re looking at this all wrong, we should embrace this idea. If seeing a Psychiatrist or Psychologist is ground for DENYING an “Inalienable Right”. Then we should Start by DISARMING every Police Officer in the County. Last time I checked, Police Are REQUIRED to do just that.
This sounds more like a solution looking for a problem than something that is likely to “solve” a genuine problem...
If you are unable to handle a gun you should not be walking the streets. Period.