Adam Lanza was crazy. Nancy Lanza was crazy.

[Denninmi]

99. Well, I kind of feel that I do, I shouldn't have to, but I do because of ignorance I see by a few.

As far as the NRA demand, it was my interpretation that they want a database of every single person who takes any kind of psychiatric medicine.

Taking it personally? You betcha. I shouldn't take it personally or be defensive when someone suggests my name belongs in a database such as the FBI's National Criminal Information System or similar (here in Michigan the state database is LIEN, Law Enforcement Information Network)? That equates me with felons, sex offenders, pedophiles. Here in Michigan, anyone adjudicated to be a legally incapacitated individual is entered into LIEN. If my name were registered in LIEN, that would equate me with people involuntarily committed.

Aside from being extremely offensive to me, I worry about the ramifications of this. Right now, my psychiatric medical records are protected by HIPPA, actually to a higher degree of confidentiality than "ordinary" medical records. This database would be accessible to law enforcement at a minimum, who knows who else? So, I get another traffic stop some day, a gung ho cop sees I'm listed as a psych patient and roughs me up or worse? A prospective employer runs a background check and refuses to hire me under some other pretense? A bank denies me credit? An airline refuses to sell me a ticket?