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Expanded background checks DOES NOT EQUAL keeping crazy people from buying guns!!!
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<blockquote data-quote="n8thegr8" data-source="post: 2298820" data-attributes="member: 6349"><p>I have several issues with background checks:</p><p></p><p>1) It presupposes that the government has the right to decide who can exercise a constitutionally-protected natural right and who can't, which I think is bogus. </p><p></p><p>2) Mental illness is never cut and dry. If my wife/son/daughter goes to a clinic for depression, then suddenly I can't have firearms in my house to protect my family (as is the case in CA right now <a href="http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2013/03/12/calif-gun-owner-who-says-she-admitted-herself-to-mental-hospital-for-medication-adjustment-has-guns-confiscated/" target="_blank">[source]</a>). </p><p></p><p>3) Banning the mentally ill from gun ownership will discourage gun owners from seeking help if they start having issues, not to mention it would only compound the fears of paranoid schizophrenics who fear government already as it is.</p><p></p><p>4) It's a privacy issue. If somebody seeks treatment for mental issues (or any other health issue for that matter), it's nobody else's damn business. Any central government database of people with certain "undesirable" traits is ripe for abuse.</p><p></p><p>I think the better approach is to treat the disease, not the symptoms. Take steps to de-stigmatize mental illness, raise awareness, and get people help. Make it easier for people to get the treatment they need, and not treat them like criminals by taking their rights away.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="n8thegr8, post: 2298820, member: 6349"] I have several issues with background checks: 1) It presupposes that the government has the right to decide who can exercise a constitutionally-protected natural right and who can't, which I think is bogus. 2) Mental illness is never cut and dry. If my wife/son/daughter goes to a clinic for depression, then suddenly I can't have firearms in my house to protect my family (as is the case in CA right now [URL="http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2013/03/12/calif-gun-owner-who-says-she-admitted-herself-to-mental-hospital-for-medication-adjustment-has-guns-confiscated/"][source][/URL]). 3) Banning the mentally ill from gun ownership will discourage gun owners from seeking help if they start having issues, not to mention it would only compound the fears of paranoid schizophrenics who fear government already as it is. 4) It's a privacy issue. If somebody seeks treatment for mental issues (or any other health issue for that matter), it's nobody else's damn business. Any central government database of people with certain "undesirable" traits is ripe for abuse. I think the better approach is to treat the disease, not the symptoms. Take steps to de-stigmatize mental illness, raise awareness, and get people help. Make it easier for people to get the treatment they need, and not treat them like criminals by taking their rights away. [/QUOTE]
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