Simple matter to declare a person unstable and take away his Second Amendment rights. It makes it easier to take away all rights. That is what psychiatrists do with no due process protections. There is no appeal from a diagnosis, especially those based on personal opinion masquerading as science.
[From article]
Gov. Andrew Cuomo urged lawmakers to pass the SAFE Act quickly after the 2012 mass shooting at the Sandy Hook elementary school in Newtown, Conn.
The Syracuse Post-Standard reported last week that since the law’s enactment, the state has collected 38,718 names in a database of individuals who have been found at-risk for owning guns by psychiatrists and other health professionals.
The paper said when the database was checked against a list of pistol permit holders in the state, there were 278 matches, less than 1 percent.
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“It’s bigger than I thought,” Harvey Rosenthal, executive director of the New York Association of Psychiatric Rehabilition Services in Albany, told the Post-Standard. “It sends a message to those who might need care that there are a lot of people who are going to be in a database.”
[. . .]
“It only takes one individual to wreak mayhem and tragedy if they have access to a firearm,” Leah Gunn Barrett, of the group New Yorkers Against Gun Violence, said. “These are individuals who, under no circumstances, should have guns.”
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New York flags 278 gun owners as mentally unstable
Published December 07, 2014
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