Here are some of the top news stories in the Upstate, foothills, Piedmont, and mountains of North and South Carolina:
The North Carolina Senate unanimously approved the new gun control bill that requires those committed as inpatients to mental facilities be listed in a national database that prevents them from buying guns. This was after a GOP-led amendment was approved that excluded those committed as outpatients, according to the News & Observer.
The News and Observer also reports that 3 N.C. teachers have been arrested in a sex sting operation.
The Asheville Citizen-Times also reports that a Henderson County, NC teacher faces multiple sex charges.
WBTV in Charlotte reports news on the 3 suspects charged with the murder of a N.C. dentist in a drugs-for-sex scandal.
The Watauga Democrat is reporting breaking news that a major cocaine bust in Boone, NC has brought on the involvement of ICE.
WLOS-TV in Asheville says that 5 Cleveland County men have been arrested in a prescription forgery sting.
The Gaffney Ledger reports that an environmentalist group is attempting to block the building of a new nuclear power plant in Cherokee County, South Carolina.
The Clinton Chronicle announces a joint luncheon on July 24 for Laurens and Greenwood Counties in South Carolina to discuss local educational issues.
WSPA-TV News Channel 7 says that 3 high speed chases have occurred within Anderson County, SC in one day alone, the third of which has ended in death.
WYFF-TV Channel 4 reports the bizarre story of a man who got his nose bitten off during a fight at a Burger King drive-through in South Carolina.
Showing posts with label new gun law in North Carolina. Show all posts
Showing posts with label new gun law in North Carolina. Show all posts
Saturday, July 12, 2008
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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