Psychiatric Diagnoses Study Casts Reasonable Doubt On Red Flag Laws
BY Herschel Smith
5 years, 4 months ago
Or as lead researcher Dr. Kate Allsopp concludes:
“Although diagnostic labels create the illusion of an explanation they are scientifically meaningless and can create stigma and prejudice.”
Liberty advocates concerned about due process-denying gun confiscations empowered by “red flag laws” should see the danger of this, when even the experts can’t agree on the basics.
As we’ve noted before, the number of psychiatric experts we can trot out to show that the various mental “diagnoses” don’t correspond with propensity to violence is virtually limitless.
Or as reader Menckenlite observed concerning guns and mental health?
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. Shame on them.
But there is no shame among pols who trot out red flag laws.
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On July 14, 2019 at 9:24 pm, George said:
Psychiatry is the framework that the modern/post modern witch doctors practice within.
On July 14, 2019 at 9:49 pm, Dan said:
Mental illness is not the reason for “red flag” laws. It’s just the mask that hides the true agenda. The true agenda is the same one behind ALL laws pertaining to guns…….the total disarming of America so those seeking power can rule with impunity.
On July 15, 2019 at 8:35 am, June J said:
I admit that in my former conservative thinking have blamed mental illness for violence, while knowing in my heart that the true reason is Godlessness and evil. Conservatives have for the most part allowed themselves to be silenced in the public arena from asserting that evil is real and the lack of Christian morals/values is the real basis of criminal violence.
On July 15, 2019 at 1:08 pm, Fred said:
All true. No matter what you cannot run fast enough or hide long enough from sin. Pretending that sin is something else is like painting the toilet every time it needs cleaning.
On July 15, 2019 at 1:15 pm, Fred said:
Pretending that sin is something else is like spray painting over the toilet bowl every time it needs cleaning.
Heh, now you can quote me on it.