Posted on 07/10/2013 9:08:42 AM PDT by kimtom
(Reuters) - Mental health advocates are worried that the privacy of people who have received treatment for their illnesses could be jeopardized by a White House push to expand a database used to run background checks on gun buyers. President Barack Obama said he wants to see state governments contribute more names of people barred from buying guns to the database, part of a sweeping set of executive actions he announced after a gunman killed 20 children and six adults at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut, in December.
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When one side or the other are all dead.
Then we get to do it all over again in another few generations when the lessons of this place and time inhistory have been forgotten.
Privacy’s already been shot in the end.
"when will it end...?"
After we restore our lost constitutional republic.
You’ll get agreement on that one from both Kipling and Strauss & Howe.
That I would. The Gods of the Copybook Headings are about ready for another go-round...
Keep your 72 hour / combat kit up-to-date and handy, my friend.
I just re-equipped mine for warmer weather.
The end result will be that anyone desperately needing mental help but who doesn't want to lose their rights will not seek that help...and now you have a crazy person with a gun, just what you sought to avoid.
excellent analogy!!
Is this an unintended consequence because liberals can’t imagine people would change their behavior and avoid seeing a shrink if temporary help could permanently cost them both their source of recreation and their right to defend themselves, or is it the intended consequence as liberals hope to trigger more mass shootings by denying mental health services to those who own firearms? It comes down to deciding whether liberals are stupid or evil, and there is overwhelming evidence for both sides.
Woulld-be tyrant seeks to disarm the American people, in clear violation of the Second Amendment.
Is it really necessary to ask why?
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