(Image text: Disability Problem #130: When the NRA suggests “an active national database of the mentally ill”)
And people wonder why some of us don’t want a fucking diagnosis. 😛
But don’t you think it’d be more effective to maintain an active national database of angry white men instead?
Okay, so, active national database of gun owners = violation of second amendment rights. Active national database of the mentally ill = a worthy goal. Noted.
I want to make this clear, I am not fundamentally anti-gun, but shit like this is exactly why I have zero respect for the NRA and why they will never speak for me on gun issues.
Oh, let’s just make things even better. What they’re calling for isn’t even the institution of such a database, but the updating of the already existing one. The one that’s supposed to be part of the background check that’s run when you go to buy a gun. The one you end up in — maybe — if you’re involuntarily incarcerated for mental health issues.
You know, like I was a couple years ago. Except that even my husband isn’t sure, and he’s a gun rights activist, if I would actually be in the database or not. Because ‘involuntarily incarcerated’, despite seeming so clear-cut, is awfully subjective. See, he thinks that because I was only there for observation I wouldn’t be on the list.
But even if I was, there’s supposedly a way to get removed from the database. Only, nobody seems to know any more than that, and the department that handles that probably isn’t even funded.