Posted on 05/03/2013 2:40:20 PM PDT by forty_years
...And sure enough, the Obama Administration is trying to unilaterally undo our recent victory in the Senate - and to undo the damage that all of us inflicted together.
But first, a little history.
Remember when Senators Pat Toomey, Joe Manchin and Chuck Schumer formed an unholy alliance during the recent gun battle on Capitol Hill? Remember how their amendment would have encouraged your psychiatrist to turn you in to the FBI's gun ban list?
And you remember how we stopped that provision, because over 40 senators found it to be odious and a violation of the Second Amendment?
Well, guess what? Barack Obama has just concluded that "he don't need no stinkin Senate."
Instead, Secretary Kathleen "ObamaCare" Sebelius - and her Department of Health and Human Services - has promulgated regulations which would, by executive fiat, waive all federal privacy laws and encourage you doctor to report you to the FBI.
Understand a couple of things: First, the standard which your doctor would use to turn you in is embodied in Clinton-era ATF language and in the anti-gun Veterans Disarmament Act of 2007. Specifically, you doctor would "drop a dime" on you if he suspected you were even a slight "danger to yourself of others" or were "unable to manage your financial affairs."
So if they say you can't balance your checkbook, then you lose your constitutional rights.
But there's another problem: The day these regulations become law, lawyers will be lining up to sue "deep-pocket" psychiatrists for every case where they failed to turn in a patient to NICS - if the patient subsequently engages in a horrific act.
The bottom line? Any psychiatrist who failed to report all of his patients to the NICS system risks losing everything if any of them engages in harmful conduct. Soon the rule of thumb will be: See a shrink; lose your guns.
And the regulations will apply to private, as well as government-employed psychiatrists.
The bad news is that 165,000 military veterans have already lost their gun rights because of the see a VA shrink, lose your gun rights precedent from the Clinton-Bush era.
Sadly, what happened to military veterans has now begun in the private sector - especially in places like New York, after they recently passed their misnamed SAFE Act.
According to gun rights reporter, Dan Roberts, firearms are now being confiscated from gun owners because of their mental health information. For example:
[John Doe] received a letter from the Pistol Permit Department informing him that his license was immediately revoked upon information that he was seeing a therapist for anxiety and had been prescribed an anxiety drug. He was never suicidal, never violent, and has no criminal history.
So now taking anxiety pills can result in ones forfeiting their Second Amendment rights in New York!
This is where the gun haters want to push their agenda. And this is one reason why background checks are so dangerous - because they give government bureaucrats the opportunity to deny law-abiding people their constitutionally-protected rights.
But the good news is this: The HHS rulemaking is still at an early stage, and HHS is (no doubt reluctantly) taking the views of the general public.
ACTION: Go to the Federal Register - at http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/FR-2013-04-23/pdf/2013-09602.pdf - and respond to the regs entitled HIPAA Privacy Rule and the National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS).
Let the HHS know how you feel about waiving all federal privacy laws for people who seek counseling.
Also, be sure to tell your congressmen that you oppose the see a shrink, lose your guns regs issued by the HHS. Ask him to issue his own comments as well.
The regs themselves lay out several ways that you may submit your opposition. The comment period ends on June 7, 2013.
Both Republicans and Democrats in Congress passed the VAWA with the urging of feminist organizations both communist and corporate, state bar associations and many other constituent groups and corporations.
Some 15 million good American men and women in family rights efforts took notice. Others falsely ridiculed them and took the biggest step toward the government they deserved. Remember that, as the near future unfolds.
The Emerson Case
http://www.ejfi.org/emerson.htm
Communist Goals (1963) Congressional Record—Appendix, pp. A34-A35 January 10, 1963
#29. Discredit the American Constitution by calling it inadequate, old-fashioned, out of step with modern needs, a hindrance to cooperation between nations on a worldwide basis.
http://rense.com/general32/americ.htm
Sometimes doing end-arounds leads to being crushed out-of-bounds for a big loss.
Lifetime NRA, lifetime GOA. Puts me on a list somewhere. I’m also LEA.
Crap, guess everybody hates me.
Good thing we don’t watch TV here, or I’d hate me too.
Doctors are already asking patients if they own guns
Wow. That's one powerful public service announcement. Too bad it's making the gun control freaks' heads explode. You'd think that after watching that, they'd have an epiphany.
God bless and keep you.
Excellent
I just had to answer a slew of these types of questions for a yearly physical appointment coming up. They said it was required for all Medicare patients. Some of the questions asked were along the lines of, How often to do you feel depressed, anxious, down or sad?
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Answer: Never - it’s great to be alive considering the alternative.
This is true. Psych 101 class, the professor told us and had studies to back it up that talking to a concerned friend was just as useful as a psychiatrist.
Also excercise like a walk outdoors is just as could an antidepressent as pills - better due to less dangers of side effects.
“...don;t you think [Gay folks and Trannies] will make attractive targets for inner city thugs to mug?”
They would certainly be easier targets if they were disarmed, I’m not so sure about the attractive part. I guess that depends on the mugger. LOL.
My doctor has had that on his questionnaire for years. God's going to have to forgive me for lying for years.
That is a story I know well. My ex went to a doc for depression. This drug works....for a while, then you need that drug, but you cant just stop using the first drug, so take them together...Then you need to add this drug and another. Long story short she is on 13 psychoactive drugs and on disability, cant drive a car, just sits around the house on disability.
If you ask her, she is happy. A drugged out, hazy chemical happy. I cant even see her anymore, too difficult to see the empty shell of a human. I have told her before just because your drug dealer has a PhD doesn’t mean you aren’t a junkie.
I’ve been to a therapist before. Yes, she was like a knowledgable paid friend. Truth is, I don’t have any friends. Women are condescending or conceited towards me, or we just don’t have much in common and they don’t get past being an aquaintance. There is nobody who cares enough to listen to my problems except my mother and a few guys at work. But you can’t necessarily talk to them about very personal problems or hang ups like you can a professional.
Perfect.
NRA life, Texas State Rifle Association Life (TSRA .) here....... And Erkel Mugae Precedent for Life is trying to give me a life sentence because I own a BLACK rifle......
Racist Bastard !
Doom on these socialist SOB’s.
Btw .... Does anyone know if Joaquin Jackson the former Texas Ranger got reelected to the board at NRA this time ? Hope that Zumbo wannabe gets kicked out.
Stay Safe GR !
Dear Kathy Weepy Eye’d Socialist BeeAcht Loser ....
My Doctor is a conservative constitutional capitalist like me. We both belong to the Ernest T. Bass Rock Chuckers and Liar’s Society. He won’t mind at all if I say no to owning a firearm ya bizzy ditch !
Aside .... I take my firearms that are sick to a gunsmith, not the doctor.
My opinion...
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