Obama to expand gun database

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Nothing like grabbing more tyrannical power Is your back against the wall yet

The dictator is at it again. We might as well fire all of congress

Privacy fears grow as Obama weighs expanded gun-buyer database | Reuters

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An effort to inject more BS into the gun debate by Washington and the White House.

 

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I love the "MODEST PROPOSALS"

After Newtown, addressing gun violence became one of Obama's top priorities, but Congress rejected his proposals to restrict certain types of guns and a measure that would have closed a loophole and required checks of the NICS database for more types of sales, such as those that take place at gun shows.

Those measures were fought by gun rights lobbying groups, which said they would infringe on their constitutional rights.

So the administration has been left with a series of smaller steps it can take without congressional approval, such as tweaking the health privacy law to make sure it does not prevent states from reporting names to the NICS database.

And this: "GUN SHOW LOOPHOLE REMAINS"

Even if states were to report all their mental health data to the database, as many as 40 percent of guns are bought at gun shows and venues where checking the NICS system is not required.

That means people who want to get guns can still buy them. Adding more records to the ineffective database stands to hurt the privacy of people with mental illness without improving safety, said Mark Heyrman, who teaches mental health law at the University of Chicago Law School.

"It seems particularly stupid to collect data that is going to stigmatize people with mental illnesses when we're collecting it for no reason," Heyrman said.

Any suggestion that health information will be shared is upsetting to people who fear they could lose their jobs or their relationships if their illness is disclosed, said Patrick Corrigan, distinguished professor of psychology at the Illinois Institute of Technology.

"It's going to muddy the relationships that health care providers have with their patients, and dissuade patients even more from going into care," said Corrigan, an expert on the stigma associated with mental illness.

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