Indeed. No psychiatrists, doctors, teachers, lawyers etc. They’re all agents of the government now. Welcome to the Fourth Reich.
An apple a day keeps the guns in your house.
No, the moral of the story is that unless the SCOTUS overturns this decision there is no limiting principle that restrains police from entering your home absent a warrant so long as they “feel” they need to.
In this case, the Fourth Amendment was trashed so the Second Amendment could be trashed. If any of the rights in the BOR are destroyed, the others are greatly vulnerable.
If the police receive a report that someone intends to harm herself, that constitutes probable cause.
It is also grounds for an involuntary psych hold.
These are not radical new developments. This has been the law for decades, even centuries.
If you want to be able to buy or own a gun, be very, very careful as to what you say and who you say it to.
Doctor went straight to the authorities??? Is that proper? Is that ethical?
So now people have to be very guarded in what they tell their doctor? Can’t blame this one on the government - what has happened to the medical community?
I agree. You would have to be crazy to open up to a psychiatrist.
EXAMPLE: you're pulled over for speeding, improper lane change, whatever, and it is "discovered" that you own a gun (or guns), or even (horror!!) that you have a conceal carry license (you were probably targeted to be pulled over as the cops already know you own guns), you'll be forced into a psych eval, where it will be determined that you should not be allowed access to firearms.
Voila! You lose forever your right to own a gun. Do this to enough people and the libs figure they can handle the few remaining gun owners.
In many states suicide is no longer illegal and assisted suicide is acceptable. As long as suicide is considered a normal behavior and no longer a crime, the police have no justification for attempting to prevent any person from offing themselves.
Thus in states that sanction suicide as an alternative to a natural death, the state has no compelling interest in forcing a person into an involuntary commitment.
That being said, I think it is really a stupid idea these days that if you have psychiatric problems that you discuss them with a psychiatrist. I would suggest finding a gun loving red neck church with a pastor or pastoral staff that has experience in spiritual counseling.
The governing class is looking for any way it can deny, at its option, to suspend the Constitution in any way it can, big and small. Since shrinks work is very subjective based on the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (the “DSM”) a book that few average people even know exists, a person cannot know to what standards they will be held should they interact with a mental health professional.
Putting aside how many shrinks are raging leftists, it is my opinion that a person interacts, even informally, with mental health professionals at grave peril to their Constitutional rights. I think that the only course of action for anyone who is forcefully “evaluated” against their will should be to say that they reserve the right to remain silent.
Yep. Got a problem? A good friend and a good bottle of something dark and at least a decade old should do the trick...
Sounds like psychiatric hospitals will soon be the new concentration camps.