Firearms confiscation has started in New York

It's especially alarming when you consider how widely-prescribed these anti-anxiety and anti-depressants are. Doctors actually receive incentives from Pharma to prescribe them and it's understandable why when the drugs in many cases have a nearly immediate ameliorative effect on their patients' mood and outlook.
 
Police officers have a very high-stress job, an exceptionally high divorce rate, and spend their days and their nights seeing humankind at its absolute worst. I'm going to guess that more than a few of NY's Finest have taken, or are taking, antidepressants.

I wonder how long it will be before NY starts demanding (perhaps even inadvertently) that those police officers surrender their firearms?
 
The NY state police admit they made a mistake. The guy whose guns were taken is not a happy camper. This one will cost the state of NY some big bucks.

"Eerie County Clerk Chris Jacobs said that late today he received a call from the New York State Police informing him that they had provided information on the wrong person when they notified his office of someone whose permit should be suspended because of the new mental health provisions in New York's SAFE Act," the release begins.

"When the State Police called to tell us they made a mistake and had the wrong person ... it become clear that the state did not do their job here and now we all look foolish," the release went on to say in a quote from Clerk Jacobs.
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http://news.yahoo.com/oops-york-state-police-admit-big-mistake-gun-142418295.html
 
"Eerie County Clerk Chris Jacobs said that late today he received a call from the New York State Police informing him that they had provided information on the wrong person when they notified his office of someone whose permit should be suspended because of the new mental health provisions in New York's SAFE Act," the release begins.

"When the State Police called to tell us they made a mistake and had the wrong person ... it become clear that the state did not do their job here and now we all look foolish," the release went on to say in a quote from Clerk Jacobs.
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I have to wonder if there even is another person they wanted to prohibit. It sounds more like another lie to cover up a serous and illegal over reach.
 
The after-the-fact scrambling for a plausible story that deflects blame to other administrative factotums resembles F&F, does it not?
 
Spats McGee wrote:
Police officers have a very high-stress job, an exceptionally high divorce rate, and spend their days and their nights seeing humankind at its absolute worst. I'm going to guess that more than a few of NY's Finest have taken, or are taking, antidepressants.
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That is a very interesting point. I would love to see the numbers for that.
 
Skadoosh, I cannot give you exact numbers on how many are taking these types of medications as Spats pointed out, but I can tell you this from personal experience. When I was in LE 3 out of 5 of my crew were taking some type of medicine, myself included. I took cyclobenzoprine and celexa, with others on wellbutrin and prozac. Sorry if I misspelled any of those.

The job is high stress and many such as myself had trouble sleeping. Myself and one other on my crew had high anxiety over the job and needed the medicine to slow our brains down a bit. So while my sample size of 5 is no where near enough to give you exact stats on the matter, rest assured many in LE are on some type of medication.

By the way when I left the job I quit taking them as I no longer needed it.
 
Are we to accept an LEO/Active Duty Military exemption from laws and regulations barring gun ownership to those receiving mental health treatment?
 
What about other drugs that have side effects of suicidal thoughts etc. It's only a moment of time before there is a second sweep as they add excuses... couched as reasons that people should be disarmed.
 
This is the slippery slope some were worrying about.

What is even worse will be how many will not seek a mental health provider for treatment out of fear of losing their right to own firearms.

And guess what?

I bet a lot of people who have mental illness will also be deprived of their right to vote one day.

No one should be deprived of a right without due process. Without at least a hearing, yet if you read the form 4473 even an administrative law judge can determine you not able to possess a firearm if you are unable to manage your own affairs.... without a hearing.

That is also the fear that will happen to all americans and not just veterans in the future. People do not realize that if it is determined you are unable to manage your own affairs and you are a veteran suffering from ptsd you can't own a gun. All this without a physical hearing. And good luck if you can't afford the thousands of dollars it will take hiring a lawyer to get your right to own guns back.

This is why the NRA lost some members years ago over the "Veterans disarmament act".
 
What is even worse will be how many will not seek a mental health provider for treatment out of fear of losing their right to own firearms.
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It's funny, about ten years ago I knew someone who was taking Zyban to help quit smoking. A co-worker told him how he could go to his doctor and get a prescription for wellbutrin for "anxiety" and get the insurance company to pick up the cost. The guy quitting smoking said how he didn't think it was a good idea as he had a pistol permit. I guess he was right.
 
government is doing nothing about the economy or unemployment rates, doing nothing about important issues such as N Korea or national security. All their attention is going toward disarming the American citizen. What a shame our country is going down hill so fast right before our eyes and nothing is being done to change. Now I guess they can crap on your rights and you have no recourse. This guy turns out to be the wrong guy and he can't even be compensated for their wrong doing ? We are being treated as terrorists and criminals. We are not just fighting new gun laws, we are fighting a a government that has no respect for the constitution or our rights.
 
you would literally have to be out of your mind to go to a mental health professional under the present day political climate.
 
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