Welcome to DU!
The truly grassroots left-of-center political community where regular people, not algorithms, drive the discussions and set the standards.
Join the community:
Create a free account
Support DU (and get rid of ads!):
Become a Star Member
Latest Breaking News
General Discussion
The DU Lounge
All Forums
Issue Forums
Culture Forums
Alliance Forums
Region Forums
Support Forums
Help & Search
Gun Control & RKBA
Related: About this forumNRA, others see Colorado mental health bill as 'gun grab'
Mass murders led Colorado's governor to seek improvements in how the state handles potentially dangerous cases of mental illness, but Second Amendment advocates labeled the proposed legislation "another gun grab" and shrank its scope.
A bill nearing a Senate vote would accomplish one aim of the attempted reform. It would redefine who is dangerous enough to be held for treatment against their will which supporters say is meant to clarify the process for mental health professionals.
Efforts to make the process easier for those professionals were jettisoned after gun-rights groups objected.
Yet even the scaled-down version remains under attack.
http://www.denverpost.com/news/ci_25680316/nra-others-see-colorado-mental-health-bill-gun
A bill nearing a Senate vote would accomplish one aim of the attempted reform. It would redefine who is dangerous enough to be held for treatment against their will which supporters say is meant to clarify the process for mental health professionals.
Efforts to make the process easier for those professionals were jettisoned after gun-rights groups objected.
Yet even the scaled-down version remains under attack.
http://www.denverpost.com/news/ci_25680316/nra-others-see-colorado-mental-health-bill-gun
InfoView thread info, including edit history
TrashPut this thread in your Trash Can (My DU » Trash Can)
BookmarkAdd this thread to your Bookmarks (My DU » Bookmarks)
6 replies, 1163 views
ShareGet links to this post and/or share on social media
AlertAlert this post for a rule violation
PowersThere are no powers you can use on this post
EditCannot edit other people's posts
ReplyReply to this post
EditCannot edit other people's posts
Rec (1)
ReplyReply to this post
6 replies
= new reply since forum marked as read
Highlight:
NoneDon't highlight anything
5 newestHighlight 5 most recent replies
NRA, others see Colorado mental health bill as 'gun grab' (Original Post)
SecularMotion
May 2014
OP
Scuba
(53,475 posts)1. The NRA sees the sunrise as a 'gun grab'.
Starboard Tack
(11,181 posts)2. Quelle surprise!
If the mentally unfit are not allowed to buy guns, then sales are probably gonna' take a steep dive. Even if they only comprise a small % of gun owners, they make up for a big chunk of sales.
liberal N proud
(60,346 posts)3. Gun nuts think everything is a gun grab
gejohnston
(17,502 posts)4. A broader question should be
should we change medical privacy laws, bring back the days when people were committed for frivolous or political reasons in the name of "public safety" and using a rare to one time black swan event to justify it? The Post doesn't adequate explain what these proposed changes are. Perhaps a copy of the bill and the definitions being used would be helpful.
Eleanors38
(18,318 posts)5. Some want to deny RKBA based on an alphabet ailment...
without due process.
But most in DU do not favor this.
Where is the bill as marked up?
AtheistCrusader
(33,982 posts)6. I'd like to see the text of the final draft of the bill but
on its face, this sounds like a losing proposition for the NRA.