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The thing is that the Virginia Tech shooter should have been barred from getting a firearm since he had been adjudicated mentally defective.

It was Virginia’s fault for not using the existing law.

On the other hand I don’t think you should be afraid of going to your doctor because you’ll have your rights taken away.

What’s going to happen to US industry when the global warming extremists like John McCain double the price of electricity?  I would think all these factories will close and set up in countries where they aren’t scared of technology.

Toot, that is already happening. Doctors are required to notify police of conditions effecting patients ability to operate vehicles. And there are many local and state level politicians who are moving pieces of legislation regarding how far “public safety” concerns can be used to delve into people’s medical records and to what ends that information can be used against people.

Weapons purchasing and possession laws are already onerous and overreaching the intents of the founders of this country. And no law will do any good if it is not enforced, or enforceable. This yahoo at VT was screaming murder spree for several years, no one took action to prevent it. Those who actually had the responsibility in this case need to be prosecuted, School Admin, Court System, doctors. They are the guilty parties that facilitated this crime. Their asses need thrown in jail.

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Think about it.  Mental illness is something that is diagnosed medically.  Meaning that a doctor does it, and your diagnosis is covered by doctor-patient confidentiality.  So how are gun sellers going to know who does and does not have a mental condition that disqualifies them from purchasing a firearm?

Doctor-patient confidentiality has been swirling down the drain ever since Tarasoff. It’s bullshit.

Roe v Wade ensures doctor patient confidentiality. You are not saying that leftards would go against RvW, are you?

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Actually, the VT shooter would not have been banned, because he saw a psychologist, not a medical doctor like a psychiatrist.  So no, it was not a failure to apply existing law; it was a failure to see the threat he was.

And this law makes things very bad, because it doesn’t insist on a reasonable legal standard to prevent someone who is healthy from being disqualified, but rather would more or less make just visiting a psychiatrist a disqualification--with no clear process to get off the banned list.

Nasty dangerous law.

Has NO ONE here heard of the National All-Schedules Prescription Electronic Reporting Act of 2005?

Google for it.

Virginia also has state-level Prescription monitoring.
http://www.deadiversion.usdoj.gov/faq/rx_monitor.htm