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copperline
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Subject:
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On Mental Disorders
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Date:
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1/11/2013 9:23:04 PM
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i couldn’t agree with you more, a required mental health
evaluation isn’t going to work very well in the real world. For one thing, it would require some mental
health professional or MD to sign off on each gun purchaser. it would be foolhardy for one of those
professionals to go on record testifying to your future mental health
conditions, attorneys everywhere would be waiting to sue the clinician who
approved a shooter…. So most clinicians would
probably have to refuse on the grounds that malpractice insurance companies
will drop them if they did. Your
psychological record would become the property of the licensing state
agency. And past mental health history
would become known, current conditions would become a red flag. You could find yourself explaining to a stranger
all those youthful indiscretions we wouldn’t want the kids to know about.
All that just to buy a gun for a dove hunt? People won’t go for it, & i don’t think
mental health evaluations are the tool we want to rely on to reduce gun
violence. Come to think about it, i bet we could ALL
agree that government required psychological evaluations for licenses is probably
not a good idea.
BTW, i’d say it’s extremely unlikely that these
psychological evaluations would be covered by ObamaCare. Just guessing, because i can't be absolutely sure...... ;)
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