Could this anti-gun strategy actually ever gain traction? I would say no, except that the rate that we are slipping into cultural insanity makes something like this a realistic threat to the Bill of Rights, at least at some point in our future. You notice I didn’t write ‘2nd Amendment’. I wrote “Bill of Rights.” If they get their foot in the door with the 2nd Amendment using the “Mental Disorder” argument, you can be sure the rest of the rights would soon fall as well. Of course, the common trend is to suggest that religion is a mental disorder anyway, which could preclude us having ANY “God-given rights,” wouldn’t it? But the will of the ‘mentally deranged’ American Public is manifested in it’s gun laws. See how America’s Gun laws have changed over the last 30 years, showing true progress with regard to concealed carry permits at http://www.bluenorthern.com/Rtc.gif
– John Jacob Schmidt
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Susanne Posel, Contributor
Activist Post
The medical industry in conjunction with Big Pharma wants to classify the right to keep and bear arms as a mental disorder in another power grab to circumvent and eventually destroy our Constitutional 2nd Amendment.
More and more doctors are forcing the idea that we need a national healthcare approach to the problem that the recent shootings provide. While tobacco and alcohol is regulated, why not include the right to bear arms?
Dr. Garen Wintemute, professor of emergency medicine at the Prevention Research Program speaking about the installing of public guardrails, said: “People used to spear themselves and we blamed the drivers for that.”
The staged shootings in Colorado and Wisconsin are being used by some scientists to declare gun violence be treated like any other mental disease – and perhaps by popping a pill, American citizens would forget to fight for their 2nd Amendment rights.
Dr. Stephen Hargarten of the Research Center at the Medical College of Wisconsin claims:
What I’m struggling with is: Is this the new social norm? This is what we’re going to have to live with if we have more personal access to firearms. We have a public health issue to discuss. Do we wait for the next outbreak or is there something we can do to prevent it.
Hargarten supports the limiting of access to all firearms in his advocacy with the Firearms Injury Center at the Medical College in Wisconsin which is funded by a US government grant to lobby taxpayers into believing that removing the 2nd Amendment will stop gun violence.
An estimated 260 to 300 million firearms are owned by American civilians which equals 1/3 of US households. While gun-related deaths are not rising, according to police records, the fear-mongering continues as a supposed trend with no justification.
Propaganda studies into gun ownership claim that alcohol abuse causes the likelihood of gun-related violence to rise, according to Wintemute. Banning assault weapons would control the amount of rounds a person could shoot, while the police officers would still be allowed to tout automatic pistols.
By restricting gun sales to include minor misdemeanors, as well as convicted felons, 40% of gun sales would be curbed. And with the classification of gun support as a mental disorder, more control could be placed on who ultimately can own a gun.
By devising tactics to reduce shootings, experts are trying to legitimize profiling so that they can identify who would be most likely to commit such a crime. Combining the psychiatric industry with pre-crime seems to be a relationship conceived by the global Elite.
Barrett says:
‘Criminologists have studied it, and the consensus is that those laws simply did not have a statistically meaningful effect on crime rates.’ He also feels that the mainstream media focus on the shootings themselves ignore the actual problem which is actually a ‘social problem’ which is subverted by ‘the overall gun homicide rate.’
Daniel Webster, co-director of the anti-firearm John Hopkins Center for Gun Policy and Research, asserts that “gun ownership—a precursor to gun violence—can spread ‘much like an infectious disease’” and wants healthcare professionals to have influence over whether or not American citizens are legally allowed to possess firearms. Webster would like to see Obamacare have ultimate control of the classification of mental states with regard to purchasing and obtaining FBI clearance for a gun.
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It’s funny how these folks blame inanimate objects as the cause of the problem, and almost never suggest better mental health care (both access and treatment) as the solution to gun violence. Solve the mental health issues, and the presence of firearms becomes moot. Look at Switzerland – nearly every home has an assault rifle, and yet this sort of gun violence we have here is almost unknown. Obviously the guns themselves are not the problem. If it were, Switzerland would be the ‘Dodge City” that the gun grabbers always worry about. Since this isn’t the case, their assumptions are invalid.
I have practiced medicine for over 30 years. I used to practice psychiatry. I can honestly say I don’t know a single physician who views the support of the 2nd Amendment as a mental disorder.
Of course, I practice in Arizona. That may explain part of it. Down here in these parts I tell the guards at the BP checkpoints that I am “American by birth, but Arizonan by the grace of God in heaven.”
Amen