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Mr. Luddite[_4_]

On 10/3/2017 8:24 PM, wrote:
On Tue, 3 Oct 2017 17:10:46 -0400, "Mr. Luddite"
wrote:

On 10/3/2017 12:22 PM, wrote:
On Tue, 3 Oct 2017 09:53:27 -0400, "Mr. Luddite"
wrote:

HIPAA is stupid in many ways anyway. Even a caretaker or next of kin can
be barred from the details of a loved one's medical or mental condition
or status.

HIPPA is really a result of the AIDS epidemic. People who may have had
the disease were worried that they might be outed as being gay. Time
has moved on. Gay does not have the stigma it used to have and we now
understand you don't have to be gay to have HIV.
At a certain point it may just be obsolete.

Just like taxes and benefits, once something is approved and put in
place, it's damn near impossible to get rid of it.

You mean like useless gun laws? The only reason the federal AWB is
gone is they wrote a sunset in it. The loopholes had been exploited to
the point that it was meaningless anyway. We imported and sold ~2
million Chinese "thumb hole" AK clones (and other similar weapons) in
the 10 years after the law was passed. That was many times more than
they had sold or imported previously. The revelation that this Vegas
guy was actually using a bump stock sort of gutted the intent of
NFA34 too. If there is a will, or a loophole, there is a way
... like Harry driving to Virginia to get an otherwise illegal cache
of hi cap magazines.

I know a couple of people who could never be approved for a gun permit
in MA. They wouldn't pass the background check and they really shouldn't
have a gun anyway. Doesn't mean they couldn't obtain a firearm via
illegal means but the fact that they know they can't legally obtain one
is enough of a discouragement. They aren't "bad" people. They just
shouldn't have a firearm.