Posted on 12/05/2012 8:06:28 PM PST by chessplayer
Senator Tom Coburn (R-OK) hopes to stop a major defense spending bill in its tracks now that Democrats have added an amendment that allows them to take away the guns of certain military veterans.
The amendment contains language that bans gun ownership for a broad swath of veterans designated "mentally incompetent." Coburn says the approach is sloppy, and that as of right now, "veterans who simply cannot support themselves financially" are placed under the mentally incompetent label and therefore "cannot buy or possess a firearm."
(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...
Obamacare "providers" will be especially attentive in this regard.
Judge Napolitano discussed this on Fox the other day. Was he ever livid!
“It’s not about whether one is judged mentally infirm, it’s about WHO does the judging? (and what are their motives?)”
Money quote!! You nailed it!
“Liberal” USED to mean one who was an adherent to the cause of LIBERTY.
I dare say that this is no longer the case with the Leftists.
Stalinists is becoming one of the most accurate descriptions of those freedom-destroying jackals.
(Disclaimer: I in no way wish to besmirch real jackals by comparing them to the petty tyrants on the left)
But you could also use the word Statists or Oppressives since they are in no way wanting to seriously make “progress” as in the term ‘Progressive’.
Good point!
And all the more reason to stock up on extra arms.
Beside the fact that you need to do that anyway after selling them all privately..
Like the old Soviet Union, anyone considered to be a threat to the regime (that’s you, me and most of us FReepers for the folks in Rio Linda) will be labeled mentally ill.
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