It all depends on who gets to decide who is mentally ill.
And that would be low level government workers.
And there would be little Due Process when those government workers round people up.
“It all depends on who gets to decide who is mentally ill.”
The process for determining if a person is safe from him/her self or to others, has been in effect for many years. And it is not taken as just someone grabbing a person and throwing them into a padded cell. There is a process:
https://www.hca.wa.gov/assets/program/fact-sheet-involuntary-treatment-act-2022.pdf
We have people on the streets that need assistance and they are a danger. If they get their hands on a gun, a knife, a machete, a whip, or even something as common as a rock, they become a danger to others. And if they can get into a car, they can do a variety of damage. But blaming the NRA using detainment to get that help for the application of gun laws is not being up front.
“...to round up mentally ill people and deprive them of other liberties...”
Of course if a person is determined insane, they shouldn’t be allowed some of the freedoms they might have if they are sane. And this process takes only 120 hours, less than a week to determine the safety of a person for everyone’s protection. Lee is just using it wrong for the wrong reasons or he’s dumber than dirt.
wy69
That has been done before - think Germany in the late 30’s.