Colonel Dan, SASS #24025 Posted May 6, 2013 Share Posted May 6, 2013 Obama Administration Trying toGrab GunsThrough Executive Order Tell HHS their new regs are crazy “Gun Owners of America [has] spent the months since Newtown doing tremendousdamage, insisting that expanded background checks will lead to a gun registry.”- New York Times, April 4, 2013 It’s quite a complement when the New York Times thinks that you are doing“tremendous damage.” But you can be sure that the other side is not going to goaway quietly. And sure enough, the Obama Administration is trying to unilaterally undo ourrecent victory in the Senate - and to undo the “damage” that all of us inflictedtogether. But first, a little history. Remember when Senators Pat Toomey, Joe Manchin and Chuck Schumer formed anunholy alliance during the recent gun battle on Capitol Hill? Remember howtheir amendment would have encouraged your psychiatrist to turn you in to theFBI's gun ban list? And you remember how we stopped that provision, because over 40 senatorsfound it to be odious and a violation of the Second Amendment? Well, guess what? Barack Obama has just concluded that "he don't need nostinkin’ Senate." Instead, Secretary Kathleen "ObamaCare" Sebelius - and her Department ofHealth and Human Services - has promulgated regulations which would, byexecutive fiat, waive all federal privacy laws and encourage you doctor toreport you to the FBI. Understand a couple of things: First, the standard which your doctor woulduse to turn you in is embodied in Clinton-era ATF language and in the anti-gunVeterans Disarmament Act of 2007. Specifically, you doctor would "drop a dime"on you if he suspected you were even a slight "danger to yourself of others" orwere "unable to manage your financial affairs." So if they say you can't balance your checkbook, then you lose yourconstitutional rights. But there's another problem: The day these regulations become law, lawyerswill be lining up to sue "deep-pocket" psychiatrists for every case where theyfailed to turn in a patient to NICS - if the patient subsequently engages in ahorrific act. The bottom line? Any psychiatrist who failed to report all of his patientsto the NICS system risks losing everything if any of them engages in harmfulconduct. Soon the rule of thumb will be: See a shrink; lose your guns. And the regulations will apply to private, as well as government-employedpsychiatrists. The bad news is that 165,000 military veterans have already lost their gunrights because of the “see a VA shrink, lose your gun rights” precedent from theClinton-Bush era. Sadly, what happened to military veterans has now begun in the private sector- especially in places like New York, after they recently passed their misnamedSAFE Act. According to gun rights reporter, Dan Roberts, firearms are now beingconfiscated from gun owners because of their mental health information. Forexample: “[John Doe] received a letter from the Pistol Permit Department informing himthat his license was immediately revoked upon information that he was seeing atherapist for anxiety and had been prescribed an anxiety drug. He was neversuicidal, never violent, and has no criminal history.” So now taking anxiety pills can result in one’s forfeiting their SecondAmendment rights in New York! This is where the gun haters want to push their agenda. And this is onereason why background checks are so dangerous - because they give governmentbureaucrats the opportunity to deny law-abiding people theirconstitutionally-protected rights. But the good news is this: The HHS rulemaking is still at an early stage,and HHS is (no doubt reluctantly) taking the views of the general public. ACTION: Go to the Federal Register - at http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/FR-2013-04-23/pdf/2013-09602.pdf - and respond to the regs entitled “HIPAA Privacy Rule and the National InstantCriminal Background Check System (NICS).” Let the HHS know how you feel about waiving all federal privacy laws forpeople who seek counseling. You may submit your comments at www.regulations.gov Also, be sure to tell your congressmen that you oppose the “see a shrink,lose your guns” regs issued by the HHS. Ask him to issue his own comments aswell. The regs themselves lay out several ways that you may submit your opposition.The comment period ends on June 7, 2013. Link to comment
Madd Mike #8595 Posted May 13, 2013 Share Posted May 13, 2013 this is an important issue we need to address abuse - abuse, I can see abuse in the system when it becomes law Link to comment
Kiowa Kid, SASS #69870L Posted May 13, 2013 Share Posted May 13, 2013 Again more good people will hurt by this than bad ones, it's like talking to a brick wall. KK Link to comment
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