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Glassunion

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24. What's the problem?

Fri Dec 21, 2012, 02:38 PM

Dec 2012

Over 1/2 of current NRA members support a limit on magazines, support stronger background checks, support that all firearm transactions accompany a background check.

That means that just under half of the remaining NRA members are suffering from mental illness and will be included on that scarlet letter list he wants to make. My guess is Wayne himself will end up on that list.

Fuck lists... Period.

I have some ideas that I feel are workable, and none of them involve HIPPA violations. Branding people and tracking them for medical conditions is deplorable.

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So, the NRA wants a database of "mentally ill people." [View all] MineralMan Dec 2012 OP

Did they say what they think should be DONE with this database? arcane1 Dec 2012 #1

Well, you know, so they couldn't get firearms. MineralMan Dec 2012 #8

And their poster boy SoCalNative Dec 2012 #29

A database of mentally ill people? Why don't they just Jackpine Radical Dec 2012 #2

This message was self-deleted by its author ann--- Dec 2012 #5

+10,000 smirkymonkey Dec 2012 #23

And the House GOP. nt alsame Dec 2012 #28

Will they start by turning over their membership list? sinkingfeeling Dec 2012 #3

GMTA Jackpine Radical Dec 2012 #11

Mental illness isn't the problem. Guns are the problem. bowens43 Dec 2012 #4

How do you begin to even define "mentally ill" get the red out Dec 2012 #6

The suggestion is so preposterous that you lend it Jackpine Radical Dec 2012 #13

Honestly, in a digital age it would probably work something like this... HereSince1628 Dec 2012 #22

It would further marginalize people who need to come out and seek help! LongTomH Dec 2012 #35

How about a database of all weapons and where they are stored? liberal N proud Dec 2012 #7

They need only look as far as their membership rolls. TheCowsCameHome Dec 2012 #9

Hmmm.... UncleYoder Dec 2012 #10

how very third reich of them dembotoz Dec 2012 #17

We should start with a database of "gun hoarders" mainer Dec 2012 #12

Wierd thing is they want actuarial risk applied to them but not HereSince1628 Dec 2012 #14

Also, if ... 1StrongBlackMan Dec 2012 #15

I'd agree with you if it was a realistic solution. Glassunion Dec 2012 #25

Yep JanMichael Dec 2012 #16

A database? Why not just force those mentally ill people to wear some kind of symbol? yewberry Dec 2012 #18

Been seriously suggested by a DUer subsequently ppr'd HereSince1628 Dec 2012 #20

They could start with anyone who appears regularly on Faux Noise. lpbk2713 Dec 2012 #19

I'm getting motion sickness from that animation of Anne Coulter LongTomH Dec 2012 #33

750 mayors asked Obama to include mental-health records in NICS. See jody Dec 2012 #21

What's the problem? Glassunion Dec 2012 #24

Agree with many posts to this thread. Sill govt. lists are just that, lists maintained by the govt. jody Dec 2012 #26

As I said here the other day & was attacked for it, "Oversimplification leads to 'gas ovens'". nt patrice Dec 2012 #27

Good idea.. Vietnameravet Dec 2012 #30

Does their roster not cover that? (nt) Recursion Dec 2012 #31

they can start with their 4 million members. spanone Dec 2012 #32

Imagine a mentally ill person being told they can't do or have something because they're 'on a list' ck4829 Dec 2012 #34

Imagine, those things are like...admission to professional training, jobs, home loans HereSince1628 Dec 2012 #36

I've read several posts on DU by those who acknowledge receiving some type of mental-health jody Dec 2012 #37