Why “Mental Illness” is the Avenue to Gun Confiscation

by Philip Hodges 


New York’s new gun law requires that mental health professionals report any person they consider “likely to engage in conduct that would result in serious harm to self or others.” If they don’t report this concern, and if something happens involving this person such as a shooting, the mental health professional could face charges for not reporting the person’s behavior to law enforcement.
Obviously, this will lead to over-reporting, which is fine by state officials, because that means that’s more people they get to bar from ever owning a gun. The other effect however is that gun-owners will be refusing to ever set foot in a mental health professional’s office for fear that the doctor will misinterpret something they said or didn’t say as evidence of a tendency to commit a crime. And you know the doctor would report anything, even if it wasn’t true, because not reporting something puts them at risk of criminal charges should “something happen” involving one of their patients.

Gun controllers love hearing themselves talk about the need to do something about mental illness as it relates to gun ownership, and their talk all stems from the recent mass shooters. But I’m not sure Adam Lanza was truly mentally ill. I’m not sure anybody’s sure, as so little is known about him, and what is known is kept secret. Was Lanza on psychotropic drugs as the Aurora theater shooter was? Drugs that could have been prescribed by a mental health professional and which side effects include suicidal and homicidal tendencies?
But these gun grabbers don’t really care about those issues. They want to be able to label anyone as mentally ill so that that person will be barred from owning a gun. If you’re on psychotropic drugs, that means you’re mentally ill. If you refuse to take psychotropic drugs when prescribed, that means you’re mentally ill. But at the same time in the liberal do-gooder’s mind, the drugs are completely irrelevant. Read More:

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