I don't think it's a good idea to restrict Constitutional rights based on a government watch list

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10. It's already a slide, my issue is the government is always trying to privatize stuff

Databases are expensive to construct and maintain so that their accuracy is up-to-date and they cannot be hacked.

There's a huge industry that wants background information on people. Imagine that in order to get operating funds the gov't decided to sell that information, or imagine that because maintenance is expensive they just decided not to continue protecting it well. It could very negatively effect people's lives.

For 2012 a study reported by National Association for Mental Illness* found unemployment for the mentally ill ran at a national average of EIGHTY percent. Americans are very deeply prejudiced against the mentally ill and don't want them in their workplaces and neighborhoods.

NICS currently includes names of persons adjudicated to be dangerous to self and others (a process that in most states includes opportunity for legal representation). In recent years there have been some frightening proposals, including some success, for mental health records to be linked to NICS (the new NY gun law as it was passed required psych therapists to report their hunches that persons might be dangerous in the future, not sure if that has been modified), there have even been proposals that pharmacy records should be linked to NICS so that persons taking some types of psychiatric medicines become prohibited.

Imagine the devastation that could result from such prejudicial stuff out in the hands of the background check industry where potential employers, competitors, ex-friends/lovers can get their hands on it.

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*Mental Illness: NAMI Report Deplores 80 Percent Unemployment Rate; State Rates and Ranks Listed—Model Legislation Proposed
Jan 01 2014

Arlington, Va.—One of the best steps in recovery from mental illness is a job, but the national unemployment rate for individuals receiving public mental health services is approximately 80 percent, according to a report issued by the National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI).

The states with the five highest levels of unemployed persons in the public mental health care system are:

• Maine 92.6 percent
• West Virginia 91.9 percent
• Hawaii 91.4 percent
• Pennsylvania 90.6 percent
• California 90.0 percent

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- See more at: https://www.nami.org/Press-Media/Press-Releases/2014/Mental-Illness-NAMI-Report-Deplores-80-Percent-Un#sthash.pZt75u8g.dpuf