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Guns of the mentally ill
should have white barrels.

Japanese police visit gun
owners at home twice a year.

This is predictable. 
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Create an epidemic[/url], then demand more power with which to control it.  Never mind that just following the Constitution is the most effective and lawful remedy.

The society, at the same time, must be educated into the belief of increasing insanity within its ranks. This creates an emergency, and places the psychopolitician in a saviour role, and places him, at length, in charge of the society.

-- A synthesis of the Russian Textbook on Psychopolitics, Chapter XII

...for great justice

MZ, let’s try a link that works. With so many American children medicated (for symptoms which include teenage angst and mood-swings - normal for any child), one could envisage an entire generation banned from holding firearms. Gun ownership could (in one or two generations) become the exception rather than the norm, if current trends continue.

In answer to Rob’s question - how do we enforce a gun ban for the mentally ill? - make them all wear hi-vis coats.
George Orwell eat your heart out!

Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.

This is a step that leftards have been working towards for many years. By claiming that normal childhood maladies are mental illness a wedge is placed between people and personal responsibility. You are mentally incapacitated, therefore you can not run your own life. No decisions for you. The State will decide and you will submit. Or you will be punished.

According to leftards everyone is mentally ill, and they are the only authority that can protect people from themselves. This is just another step down that path.

Una Salus Victus Nullam Sperare Salutem

IF a person goes to the doctor and shows signs of hatred and complete creepiness. (like Cho obviously did) Shouldn’t there be some kind of way these type of individuals should be reported to a homeland security or something? After observing his videos it was quite obvious he was hate filled. AND when the teacher and students were going to quit??? There should be somewhere to report dangerous or potentially dangerous people.

This is a step that leftards have been working towards for many years. By claiming that normal childhood maladies are mental illness a wedge is placed between people and personal responsibility. You are mentally incapacitated, therefore you can not run your own life. No decisions for you. The State will decide and you will submit. Or you will be punished.

My goodness...this is so true it’s scary.

When the people fear their government, there is tyranny; when the government fears the people, there is liberty.

-- Thomas Jefferson

Rob’s recently listened-to songs:

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There was an op-ed piece in the WSJ the other day about this. They estimated half the bigtime CEOs in the country would be considered ‘mentally ill’ by standards these people come up with.
Built in here is also a certain fallacy by which certain people claim to be privy to the future potential acts of these ‘unstable’ individuals. Its epistemically unavailable just like the amount of info one needs for a centrally planned economy. Again, if we strap people into padded boxes and tranquilize them we will prevent needless deaths and injuries. Who’s with me? Let’s make it a law… in the name of preserving our freedom to live.

MOFO,

Good link, however, the original still works for me—must be online censoring in your People’s Republic of Oceania.

Folks,

Watch closely where the Left are going with this.  It seems, on the surface, to be a common sense thing to do.  Knowing the way the Left has operated in the past—THEY will define the NEW SANE and INSANE.  If you believe in things like God, Guts and Guns or even Queen and County, they will coin a new three letter acroymn, declaring un-politically-correct thoughts to be a disease of the mind. 

Voila, [insert Soup Nazi here]

No guns for you!

...for great justice

Whaddyaknow. Brady supports it. A victim of the Pilgrim’s, “wait til it happens to you” fallacy. Talk about a one issue fella.

Current law prevents anyone who has “ever been adjudicated mentally defective (which includes affairs) or have you ever been committed to a mental institution.” In that, a person is asked that on form 4473, and if they answer YES to the question, they are not allowed to purchase a firearm through a FFL dealer.

There is already a vast system which is used to determine if someone is eligible to purchase a firearm, it’s called the NICS, and is maintained by the FBI (I believe.)

Many states, though not all, already provide mental health information to this system.

FFL Dealers, to my knowledge, do not receive anything other then a YES/NO, and a code to put on the 4473 form.  So, a person may be denied the purchase of a firearm, and the dealer isn’t going to know why.  It could be a criminal record, it could be wrong information in the database.  All the dealer is going to know is to not sell them the firearm.

So, the system is already in place, many states are already providing the information, and the effect on privacy is negligible.

Now, there very well could be a slippery slope with regard to what conditions would or should disqualify someone.  And there ought to be a healthy debate about that.

Actually, the medical privilege is already abridged in many/most states when doctors have evidence of crimes against children.  It’s not a stretch to suggest that it could be done for significant mental illness; the problem is determining when it would be activated, and how the restriction would be removed.

It will never be removed. And it can be expanded. If you are unfit to possess a firearm you damn well should not operate a motor vehicle. Own your own home? Are you nuts, oh, yes, you are. Reside in this nice, Government housing. The Mental Health Facilitator is down in the Medical Suite.

Una Salus Victus Nullam Sperare Salutem

declaring un-politically-correct thoughts to be a disease of the mind.

Yep, that is (was) a marxist policy practiced by the old Soviet Union.

You don’t have to be a moron to be a liberal Democrat but it sure helps.

Keith, Indy.  Thanks for that bit of factual information.  Our own state also has similar language in order to obtain a CWP.  I have not seen the federal form, but it is long.  Glad to see one more adult here who can debate with more facts and less emotional “I know what I knows”!

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