Jeff wrote:
* katy wrote, On 4/17/2007 11:57 PM:


Can you explain how this person under treatment for depression managed
to buy a gun from a gunshop if your system works?

Oz1...of the 3 twins.
I welcome you to crackerbox palace,
We've been expecting you.


Becasue the liberals passed the HIPPA (Hralth Insurance Portability
and Protection Act) laaws which disallow any release of medical
information if not specifically permitted by the patient...to release
medical information without the express permission of the subject is a
breach of privacy under this act and is prosecutable...hey...the libs
wrote it...talk to them...kid should have been in an
institution...libs got rid of those too so the mentally ill could
mainstream with the rest of society...


The Privacy and Security provisions of HIPPA were passed by a Republican
Congress and signed by a Republican President.

And are you seriously saying that the NRA (or anyone else) would support
a law that encouraged a psychiatrist to put a note in your FBI file that
you're being treated for depression and therefore cannot be trusted?

No..I'm not supporting that at all...and HIPPA is a much larger and long
running act than just the final passage...it started out hand in hand
with the COBRA Act...yes, Republicans passed it..at that point they had
little chpoice but to pass it...OZ asked why someone who purchased a gun
could do so with a mental condition...I explained how that was possible
here...I do, however, think that there are some things we go way
overboard on, to wit, I know a foster care parent who takes care of
psychiatric foster care children...these kids are abused by parents with
psychiatric problems that were then perpetuated on their
children...those parents are protected by society...there is one parent
who sexually abused his child repeatedly, in heinous ways, yet he is out
on the streets..he has committed these acts on various children time and
time again but becasue he suffers from a very low IQ and has a mental
condition he is protected...so he spends 2 weeks in a facility and then
is let out to do it all over again..and because he is a mental illness
case he is not on a sexual predator list! We do things backwards
here...we protect the wrong innocents...used to be that if a person,
like Cho, wrote or spoke about the things he did, that those things
would have been enough to demand a 3 day visit for evaluation at some
mental health institution...now we have to wait until they actually
commit some ded of physicality, rather than of intent...I feel sortry
for the Professor that tried to do something and was thwarted by a
system...I feel sorry for an institution that fears prosecution and
lawsuits becasue of our legal system protecting those that would harm
them...I feel sorry for a police force that cannot act because they are
bound from taking any action or at least being able to remand such a
person to a psychiatrist for evaluation...