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Showing Original Post only (View all)The NRA wants a "national database of the mentally ill." [View all]
or as everyone else calls it, "the NRA's mailing list."
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"my dx has no available drug treatment....maybe that's why it's going away??"
dixiegrrrrl
Dec 2012
#17
Tons of diagnosis have no drug treatment. Every personality disorder, for starters.
Care Acutely
Dec 2012
#32
Well if NRA wants to be law abiding why are they so afraid of a National list of people who own
southernyankeebelle
Dec 2012
#9
I think it is a creepy idea just like I think it is creepy that the govt is spying on everyone
Mojorabbit
Dec 2012
#45
They already know what we are doing now I am sure. Everyone who is on the internet is
southernyankeebelle
Dec 2012
#48
I don't want to either. But don't shoot the messenger it has been happening a long time now.
southernyankeebelle
Dec 2012
#50
Oh I didn't take it that way. I happen to feel the same way you do. I guess the only way
southernyankeebelle
Dec 2012
#56
Michele Bachmann's favorite gun is the Bushmaster AR-15 used in Newtown [VIDEO]
IcyPeas
Dec 2012
#18
If they really do create such a database I want the first name to be Wayne LaPierre's!
lastlib
Dec 2012
#20
This may come as a shock to some, but we already have a database for just that purpose!
slackmaster
Dec 2012
#25
The problem is its woefully incomplete because a lot of data doesn't get there....
Historic NY
Dec 2012
#30
Yes, there may be a conflict between HIPAA and state analogues, and the reporting requirement
slackmaster
Dec 2012
#31
It's funny how that works. Everything is fine until something horrible happens...
slackmaster
Dec 2012
#38
At the end of the day it does work, at least to the extent that the data in the database...
slackmaster
Dec 2012
#58
Don't you just love the "disagreeing with me is a psychiatric disorder" meme this place gets? (nt)
Posteritatis
Dec 2012
#36
There probably already *is* one, or the means to make one. Computerized prescriptions, those
HiPointDem
Dec 2012
#42
Mental health adjudications and involuntary commitments are supposed to be reported to FBI/NICS
slackmaster
Dec 2012
#43
there's another data base to draw from. it's conceivable that under the right circumstances all
HiPointDem
Dec 2012
#44