But critics say that this focus unfairly singles out people with serious mental illness, who studies indicate are involved in only about 4 percent of violent crimes and are 11 or more times as likely than the general population to be the victims of violent crime.Blanket dragnet anyone?
And many proposals — they include strengthening mental health services, lowering the threshold for involuntary commitment and increasing requirements for reporting worrisome patients to the authorities — are rushed in execution and unlikely to repair a broken mental health system, some experts say. [More]
Liberty will not be won by scapegoating anyone, or throwing anyone under the bus.
Anyone who can't be trusted with a gun can't be trusted without a custodian, and that must not be allowed to happen without full respect for individual rights. We all must be presumed innocent until proven guilty beyond a reasonable doubt.
This fundamental principle of justice should not need to be explained to anyone -- and especially to some who are ostensibly on "our side."
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The thing that bothers me most is that many liberals actually think wanting a gun is a mental illness, thus a way to get us all on the verboten list. Shades of Soviet Russia!
"Liberty will not be won by scapegoating anyone, or throwing anyone under the bus."
Indeed!
Wonder if Wayne is reading this?
I seriously worry about the due process when they try to rush this through. If we aren't careful we are going to see people's rights taken away for the littlest thing. Shades of the thought police.
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