Focusing on guns, politics, and news of interest, here is today's Second Amendment News Roundup:
Armed and Safe says 'to hell with it' concerning the ATF's contention that attaching a handle to a pistol without filling out tons of paperwork is enough to land you in prison for 10 years. I agree. The jackbooted thugs still plot against the Constitutional liberties of the citizens.
Dark Blog comments on my post today concerning North Carolina's new legislation mandating that those committed to mental facilities have their names added to a national database of 'crazies' who can never buy guns.
David Codrea weighs in on the subject with a post entitled, 'North Carolina Rats Out to Feds.' David also nails it by pointing to a post that shows the antis actually believe ALL of our rights are 'collective' if they were to be honest.
JR at A Keyboard and a .45 has an interesting snippet entitled, 'A Pistol in the Park.'
Squeaky posts this item on 'the rifle case win.'
Breda provides some much-needed Friday afternoon humor. Thanks, Breda!
Mark Steyn provides a link to the transcripts of his appearance on the Hugh Hewitt show. And by the way, Steyn is also appearing with Rush Limbaugh as we speak.
The American Thinker points to some key signs of new life for the John McCain campaign.
John Lott documents at least a partial list of all of Barack Obama's 'regrets.' There is one regret about which I have absolutely no doubt, however...and that is the regret of the American people if they put Barack Obama in the White House.
Dr. Lott also wonders what else in on that infamous Fox News tape of Jessie Jackson's rant against Barack Obama, of which only a small portion was broadcast.
Sebastian provides a thorough analysis of 'the suicide angle' as the next tactic the antis will use to try to take away gun rights.
Showing posts with label national database of those who cannot buy guns due to health. Show all posts
Showing posts with label national database of those who cannot buy guns due to health. Show all posts
Friday, July 11, 2008
Gun Control in North Carolina: the National Database
The Democrat-controlled North Carolina state senate overwhelmingly passed legislation requiring that anyone in the state who by law has been committed to a mental health facility will have their name entered into a national database to prevent them from buying a firearm.
As many predicted when a national bill was introduced in the Congress that had the backing of not only the NRA but self-avowed gun-grabbers such as Carolyn McCarthy, John Conyers, Charles Rangel, Nancy Pelosi, Ted Kennedy, Harry Reid, Dianne Feinstein, and Barbara Boxer, the bill is, indeed, leading to wholesale banning of firearms ownership for life based upon a person's medical diagnosis.
North Carolina is proof positive that the so-called 'nay-sayers' and 'NRA bashers' such as the GOA and the JPFO were 100% correct on this issue.
I maintained all along that despite my general and longtime support for the NRA, they got this one DEAD WRONG.
Thus, in North Carolina, if you ever go to the doctor with depression so severe that you have suicidal thoughts and have to be placed in a mental facility, you are banned from owning firearms for life. If you are a U.S. war veteran who served your country and because of post-traumatic stress syndrome your depression and anxiety are so overwhelming that you have to be hospitalized due to your fleeting desire to die, sorry, bud, but you will never be able to own a firearm again. The 'fleeting desire to die' is referred to in medical circles as passive suicidal-homicidal ideation.
And not only that, but your name will be entered into the dreaded national database where you will automatically recognized as 'too nutty to own a gun.'
It is a big mistake to assume upon reading the legislation that 'they are not talking about average citizens but about certified nutcases.' All it takes for an average citizen to be considered a danger to themselves or others is for a doctor to diagnose severe depression, which always involves thoughts of suicide, or bipolar disorder with suicidal ideation (and, by the way, in medical lingo there is no such thing as 'suicidal ideation' apart from 'homicidal ideation'...the two are described as one thing, i.e., 'suicidal-homicidal ideation').
The most severely-afflicted of these patients are then forcibly committed to hospitalization if they do not commit themselves voluntarily.
And this is why legislation such as the bill in North Carolina is a danger to the rights of citizens.
In addition, there may be HIPPA (Health Information Portability and Privacy Act) violations involved. Ever since the 1998 Congress passed privacy legislation protecting citizens' medical history, the medical community has understood that these matters are extremely private or else the offending parties could not only be sued by individual citizens but hauled to court by the U.S. Government and heavily fined.
Mental health issues have always been understood to contain inherent privacy safeguards due to the sensitivity of such diagnoses. But now the names of these poor souls will be entered into a national database, along with their complete mental health history.
In the name of preventing these persons from exercising their Constitutional rights, their privacy will be thrown under the bus.
And what about the Heller decision? It did absolutely nothing to prevent these types of government violations of citizens' rights.
The mental health advocacy groups should be up in arms over this one, but where are they?
For complete information about the North Carolina bill, click HERE
As many predicted when a national bill was introduced in the Congress that had the backing of not only the NRA but self-avowed gun-grabbers such as Carolyn McCarthy, John Conyers, Charles Rangel, Nancy Pelosi, Ted Kennedy, Harry Reid, Dianne Feinstein, and Barbara Boxer, the bill is, indeed, leading to wholesale banning of firearms ownership for life based upon a person's medical diagnosis.
North Carolina is proof positive that the so-called 'nay-sayers' and 'NRA bashers' such as the GOA and the JPFO were 100% correct on this issue.
I maintained all along that despite my general and longtime support for the NRA, they got this one DEAD WRONG.
Thus, in North Carolina, if you ever go to the doctor with depression so severe that you have suicidal thoughts and have to be placed in a mental facility, you are banned from owning firearms for life. If you are a U.S. war veteran who served your country and because of post-traumatic stress syndrome your depression and anxiety are so overwhelming that you have to be hospitalized due to your fleeting desire to die, sorry, bud, but you will never be able to own a firearm again. The 'fleeting desire to die' is referred to in medical circles as passive suicidal-homicidal ideation.
And not only that, but your name will be entered into the dreaded national database where you will automatically recognized as 'too nutty to own a gun.'
It is a big mistake to assume upon reading the legislation that 'they are not talking about average citizens but about certified nutcases.' All it takes for an average citizen to be considered a danger to themselves or others is for a doctor to diagnose severe depression, which always involves thoughts of suicide, or bipolar disorder with suicidal ideation (and, by the way, in medical lingo there is no such thing as 'suicidal ideation' apart from 'homicidal ideation'...the two are described as one thing, i.e., 'suicidal-homicidal ideation').
The most severely-afflicted of these patients are then forcibly committed to hospitalization if they do not commit themselves voluntarily.
And this is why legislation such as the bill in North Carolina is a danger to the rights of citizens.
In addition, there may be HIPPA (Health Information Portability and Privacy Act) violations involved. Ever since the 1998 Congress passed privacy legislation protecting citizens' medical history, the medical community has understood that these matters are extremely private or else the offending parties could not only be sued by individual citizens but hauled to court by the U.S. Government and heavily fined.
Mental health issues have always been understood to contain inherent privacy safeguards due to the sensitivity of such diagnoses. But now the names of these poor souls will be entered into a national database, along with their complete mental health history.
In the name of preventing these persons from exercising their Constitutional rights, their privacy will be thrown under the bus.
And what about the Heller decision? It did absolutely nothing to prevent these types of government violations of citizens' rights.
The mental health advocacy groups should be up in arms over this one, but where are they?
For complete information about the North Carolina bill, click HERE
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