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This cuts both ways. Liberals have been trying to prevent this so I was surprised when Obama came up with this. Currently, if someone walks into his psychiatrist office and says he is going to buy a bunch of guns and hit a mall of thousands of people, the doctor cannot divulge that.

Obviously there is no due process on the terrorist watchlist or the no fly list, but it might make sense to establish a due process when dealing with psychopaths who openly state their intentions to doctors.

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“Currently, if someone walks into his psychiatrist office and says he is going to buy a bunch of guns and hit a mall of thousands of people, the doctor cannot divulge that.

??? The information obtained during psychiatric proceedings is divulged in courts of law and the patient subjected to involuntary short-term commitmemt all the time.