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Glidden and other chiefs across the Commonwealth tell Team 5 Investigates this hurts their ability to determine whether a person is mentally fit to carry a firearm.
Glidden and other chiefs across the Commonwealth tell Team 5 Investigates this hurts their ability to determine whether a person is mentally fit to carry a firearm.
Question, why can't you put this on the table in front of those useless tools who call themselves journalists and demand a rebuttal and/or an admission of irresponsible reporting?What specious crap; regurgitated by a media happy to vilify gun owners while sucking up to unelected bureaucrats.
ANY firearms license application can get vetted by the DMH. This crap about the chief's hands being tied by lack of data is patently false.
I've received copies of the complete DMH check as part of the denial clients were given, completely unredacted, with the names, SSN and license applied for thereon; up to ten names on each sheet. So, not only do the chiefs clearly have access to that sensitive information, they are too careless to even safeguard it as required by law.
Great...so what enforcing mental health on gun owners will do is force gun owners who have a minor bout of depression to not get treatment for fear of losing their firearms, just because they are unhappy with their gf or work and can't find better work, yada, yada.
So someone will invent a image scanner and put it on the highway and if you get pissed because someone just cut you off, it'll record that, send a notice to your local LEO and when you get home they'll be coming to get your firearms.
Then they can get a "full history" right down to who has hemorrhoids for each LTC applicant. It'll certainly help determine "suitability".
I've not watched the piece,usually it's the same old claptrap. Everybody goes thru some type of stess in life and sometimes you have to talk it out with a mental health professional and possibly have a script for some type of meds given thru your doctor. I for one don't want that info out there for anyone to see,period. If someone is committed by the courts,maybe,it depends on what he was committed for. If he is not considered a danger to himself or others his right to own firearms should not be denied.
I suspect what they want is for the private records of private physicians and private hospitals to end up in the FBI files. Then they can get a "full history" right down to who has hemorrhoids for each LTC applicant. It'll certainly help determine "suitability".
That, in my opinion is a tough one. There are clearly cases where a person is obviously mentally unstable and can be labeled as such. On the other hand, there are situations where event the best psychiatrists or psychologists will not detect a basic underlying issue that could result in violent behavior. Take the issue of a sociopath personality - i.e Ted Bundy. He'd pass a polygraph test ...so hard to detect as this was part of his basic wiring, not a degenerative mental illness. How do you stop that?
You can't. And if they want to commit a crime, you can't stop that either. If they really want a gun, they'll get one.
They want to make sure that anybody who might possibly ever exhibit the tiniest anti-social behavior (e.g., raising one's voice at someone, watching the wrong sorts of movies or reading the wrong books, etc.) is guaranteed to be declared unsuitable.
Ken