Government's Tactic To Take Away Guns: Claim You're Crazy
I wrote in depth about my concerns about 2nd Amendment rights back when Obama first issued his ludicrous set of "Executive Orders" designed to curb gun ownership and essentially remove everyday citizens ability to arm themselves. My take then, as now:
Obama can’t directly ban guns in the way he would like. Instead he’s taking a roundabout path, which could result not only in the loss of legally owned firearms, but also in the release of what was formerly a protected matter of personal privacy – your health records – and the redefining of “sanity” as dictated by the federal government.
My concern and prediction has come true, as noticed by multiple media outlets during a White House media dump session on Friday. One such outlet was the Washington Times.
The Department of Health and Human Service’s “notice of proposed rule-making,” floated by the White House in a Friday media dump, would waive portions of the federal Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) to allow psychiatrists to report their patients to the FBI’s gun-ban blacklist (the NICS system) on the basis of confidential communications.
I encourage you to read my full breakdown on this topic here, but I'll include some pertinent passages replying to Obama's orders below for those of you short on time.
- Clarify that the Affordable Care Act does not prohibit doctors asking their patients about guns in their homes.Why would your doctor ever ask you if you had a gun in your home? He wouldn’t unless it were something that was mandated by the government, maybe due to the “mental health parity regulations” that Obama also brings up. More on that below.- Release a letter to health care providers clarifying that no federal law prohibits them from reporting threats of violence to law enforcement authorities.This pertains to clinical practitioners and psychiatrists, which fall under Obamacare and general medicine, as psychiatrists are MDs. Basically, Obama is stripping away the doctor-patient privilege from American citizens. You can no longer speak frankly, as Obama is making it very clear to them that it is only their foolish moral standards of decency that prevent them from squealing to the Feds should you exhibit any sort of anger towards the government or local law enforcement. So if you believe in the benefits of psychiatry (which I personally don’t in general, however in certain extreme cases, medication is beneficial) this Executive Order will damage the ability of those mental health professionals to care for their patients, as those patients can no longer be candid in therapy, thus eliminating the point of going to therapy. - Commit to finalizing mental health parity regulations.This is the bow I was referring to which ties all of this together. By redefining “mental health parity” our government can label anyone outside the mainstream, spoon-fed masses as a psychotic radical. Those who are simply people who have issues with the government and voice them online – criticizing or “blaming” the government could be defined as criteria to label someone as unstable and having mental issues, and thus ineligible to own a gun – or even worse, taken from their homes and confined without trial in a psychiatric hospital. This handy info graphic below, which aired on Fox News, was taken from the Dept. of Homeland Security and pretty plainly lays out how low the bar is for you to be considered a danger by the government. It’s already begun. If doctors and psychiatrists start to share any complaint that patients have about the government, or any paranoia that they may bring up in sessions, the government will use that to control those people – deny them the right to bear arms, or lock them away.Receive access to ALL of our EXCLUSIVE bonus audio content – including “Conspiracy Corner”, “Degenerate Gamblers” and the “League of Liberty Podcast” by joining the Lions of Liberty Pride and supporting us on Patreon!
