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Bloomberg reports
today that in California they are seizing guns from formerly legal gun
owners who no longer qualify to own them because of criminal charges or
commitment to a mental hospital.
Taking guns from criminals? Good. Taking guns from the mentally ill and unstable? Also good, since they make up 99.9% of those who have committed mass murder with guns in the United States. But with a government that is pushing for increasing measures to disarm citizens and Obamacare in control of medicine, how long before the sane gun-owning citizens are deemed mentally unstable in the name of gun control?
According
to the article, Lynette Phillips was the subject of such a gun seizure
due to a two-day involuntary commitment to a mental hospital. The
alarming part is her assertion that, “the nurse who admitted her had
exaggerated the magnitude of her condition.”
Now, we don’t know the circumstances, why she was thought to be crazy or what behavior made the nurse think Phillips should be committed. And of course, the crazy don’t think they’re crazy. If one is involuntarily committed, one has an opportunity to contest the decision before a judge, but it is permanently on the record. But this raises an important question because judgments on another person’s sanity are made by individuals – fallible, subjective humans. Those individuals make a determination nearly impossible to disprove that now affects one’s Constitutional right to own a firearm.
Under
Obamacare doctors, nurses and other medical staff are no longer
beholden to their patients, they are beholden to The State. It holds
the taxpayer-funded purse that allocates budgets and it controls the
standards and directives by which medical staff and facilities must
operate.
If doctors and nurses answer to the State, and the State wants to enact gun control, what’s to stop them from dictating judgments of insanity for those they want to disarm? A doctor’s job, a hospital’s budget might depend on compliance with, for example, a new directive on what behavior indicates insanity or potential future violence. Do you oppose this Administration’s policies? You may be hostile. You may be a danger to yourself or others. The Administration certainly thinks so, and now they write the doctor’s checks.
The
idea of a doctor asking a patient the question “Are there any guns in
your house?” was raised after the Sandy Hook massacre when Obama
proposed 23 executive orders to limit the use of guns. Of these order
16 states, “…the Affordable Care Act does not prohibit doctors asking
their patients about guns in their homes,” and according to the White
House fact sheet on the orders, “…no federal law prevents health care
providers from warning law enforcement authorities about threats of
violence.” Obama wants doctors to be able to get information on the
firearms one owns, and under Obamacare he also controls the staff who
diagnose things like mental stability
and illness.
We
know that gun ownership and conservative values overlap heavily across
the United States. With the help and compliance of the mass media this
Administration has tried to defame and marginalize anyone who opposes
its policies and doesn’t agree with its ideology. We also know whom the
government deems to be a threat – the new Enemy of the People. It’s not
Islamic terrorists who scream “Allahu Akhbar” as the
y murder innocent civilians. Those are the justified “freedom fighters” of the “religion of peace.” Janet Napolitano’s Department of Homeland “Security” has said that all returning Veterans are potential terrorists, that those who are against aborting babies are extremists, and we all know how they characterize the Tea Party in particular and conservatives in general. Now they have ubiquitous control over the medical staff to dole out judgments of insanity. What better way to further nullify your enemy than to declare them crazy – one gun-clinger at a time?
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