Guns And Mental Health Bigotry In California
BY Herschel Smith
10 years, 2 months ago
On Wednesday, a group of California mayors sent a letter to Gov. Jerry Brown (D) urging him to sign a bill (AB 1014) that would allow temporary restraining orders to prevent individuals who are suspected of having mental health issues or who are potentially violent from purchasing or possessing guns, the Los Angeles Times‘ “PolitiCal” reports (McGreevy, “PolitiCal,” Los Angeles Times, 9/3).
If signed, the bill would take effect on Jan. 1, 2016 (O’Neill, “KPCC News,” KPCC, 9/3).
The bill, by Assembly members Nancy Skinner (D-Berkeley) and Das Williams (D-Santa Barbara) and state Sen. Hannah-Beth Jackson (D-Santa Barbara), would allow family members and friends to contact law enforcement if they believe an individual could be a threat to themselves or others, and officers then could ask a judge for the temporary restraining order.
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Meanwhile, Gun Owners of California Executive Director Sam Paredes voiced concerns about the measure being used in an unintended manner. He said the restraining orders could end up being used as a legal “weapon or tool by those who want to cause harm … or discomfort” to individuals who own guns (“KPCC News,” KPCC, 9/3).
Eric Wooten, president of the Liberal Gun Owners Association, said the measure also could be an “enormous disincentive” for gun owners to seek mental health and substance misuse treatment.
Oh, and I’m absolutely certain that no one will ever use said latitude to settle squabbles, right? Read it again. “Family members and friends.” Does that sound rather broad to you?
Besides, it’s a myth that violence can be correlated to mental health, and it’s prejudiced to think so. And as I’ve quoted before, here is reader menckenlite on psychiatry.
Control freaks love psychiatry, a means of social control with no Due Process protections. It is a system of personal opinion masquerading as science. See, e.g., Boston University Psychology Professor Margaret Hagan’s book, Whores of the Court, to see how arbitrary psychiatric illnesses are. Peter Breggin, Fred Baughman and Thomas Szasz wrote extensively about abuses of psychiatry. Liberals blame guns for violence. Conservatives blame mental illness. Neither have any causal connection to violence. The issue is criminal conduct, crime. Suggesting that persons with legal disabilities are criminals shows the nonsensical argument of this politician and his fellow control freaks.
I couldn’t have said it better myself.
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On September 5, 2014 at 10:16 am, jslim2020 said:
“Suspected” and “potentially” broaden the blanket to include anyone anywhere anytime. Don’t think they intended to miss anybody. The “Liberal Rudder” is a very inconspicuous apparatus that most never consider yet it is the soul of their existence.
On September 5, 2014 at 10:46 am, Paul B said:
This just cannot end well. Everyone is insane by someone else’s lights. No due process and we will have a real mess in short order. One at a time, attrition till we can no longer resist.
Evil is smart, of that there is no doubt.
On September 5, 2014 at 10:33 pm, Carl Stevenson said:
“Psychiatry” (as practiced by compliant lackeys) has been used by tyrants throughout history as an excuse to disarm, imprison, “disappear”, and murder political opponents.
On September 5, 2014 at 10:53 pm, Herschel Smith said:
Yes, as practiced in Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union (and now America).
On September 6, 2014 at 6:55 am, Carl Stevenson said:
And coming soon to Californication, and other totalitarian states where liberty has long been oppressed.