Aside from the 2nd amendment questions, which are already promised to be litigated, the most troubling section of this law is they way they decided to handle the mental health question.
Effectively any psychologist, psychiatrist, therapist, nurse, doctor, social worker or counselor must report any person they believe may harm themselves or others to state authorities. This reporting could lead the the revocation of the person's permit and the seizure of any guns the person may own. http://abcnews.go.com/Health/wireStory/experts-proposed-ny-gun-law-hinder-therapy-18220535 >From the article: "Dr. Paul Appelbaum at Columbia University said the prospect of being reported to local mental health authorities and maybe the police might discourage people from revealing thoughts of harm to a therapist, or even from seeking treatment at all. "The people who arguably most need to be in treatment and most need to feel free to talk about these disturbing impulses, may be the ones we make least likely to do so," said the director of law, ethics and psychiatry at Columbia. "They will either simply not come, or not report the thoughts that they have." "If people with suicidal or homicidal impulses avoid treatment for fear of being reported in this way, they may be more likely to act on those impulses," he said. Currently a mental health professional has a duty to protect potential victims of a patient, but there are several ways to do that, he said. The patient can be committed to an institution, voluntarily or not, or his medication can be changed to reduce the risk, or the intended victim can be warned, he said." Until Later! C. Hatton Humphrey http://www.eastcoastconservative.com Every cloud does have a silver lining. Sometimes you just have to do some smelting to find it. On Tue, Jan 15, 2013 at 8:18 PM, Larry C. Lyons <[email protected]>wrote: > > Something at least. The problem is though places where its very easy > to get assault rifles, 30 round mags etc., is only at the most 4 hours > drive away. After all Virginia for instance has loosened a lot of its > gun laws, especially the straw purchases laws. > > On Tue, Jan 15, 2013 at 5:31 PM, Eric Roberts > <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > From CNN breaking News. > > > > > > > > New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo signed into a law a new package of gun > > regulations to fortify the state's existing assault weapons ban, limit > the > > number of bullets in magazines and strengthen rules that keep the > mentally > > ill from owning firearms. > > > > The measure is the nation's first gun-control bill since last month's > school > > shootings in Newtown, Connecticut. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:360179 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
