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sanatanadharma

(3,707 posts)
Fri Dec 21, 2012, 04:13 PM Dec 2012

Proof of NRA perfidity in suggesting mental illness database...

...The NRA made it illegal for health professionals to report guns in the homes of people with violent tendencies.

"...if a husband brings the wife he just beat up into the ER, and she whispers to a nurse that she's afraid to go home, he's got a gun that he threatens to use on her and the kids, the healthcare provider is not allowed to put that information in her file, or to tell a law enforcement officer? You have to appreciate just how extreme these gun-worshippers really are:"
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"inserted into the Affordable Care Act at the request of pro-gun, NRA-backed Majority Leader Sen. Harry Reid (D-NV), the Obamacare subsection titled “Protection of Second Amendment Gun Rights” makes it illegal for wellness and better-living programs to require “the disclosure or collection of any information relating to… the presence or storage of a lawfully-possessed firearm or ammunition in the residence or on the property of an individual; or… the lawful use, possession, or storage of a firearm or ammunition by an individual.”
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"The fact that such a provision found its way into the health care law without so much as a mention from the media or national politicians underscores the far reach of the gun lobby’s influence."

http://crooksandliars.com/susie-madrak/what-gun-worship-lobby-managed-sneak-
http://thinkprogress.org/health/2012/12/20/1366601/pro-gun-lobby-obamacare-provision-gun-owners/

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