NRA, others see Colorado mental health bill as 'gun grab'

[SecularMotion]

Mass murders led Colorado's governor to seek improvements in how the state handles potentially dangerous cases of mental illness, but Second Amendment advocates labeled the proposed legislation "another gun grab" and shrank its scope.

A bill nearing a Senate vote would accomplish one aim of the attempted reform. It would redefine who is dangerous enough to be held for treatment against their will — which supporters say is meant to clarify the process for mental health professionals.

Efforts to make the process easier for those professionals were jettisoned after gun-rights groups objected.

Yet even the scaled-down version remains under attack.

http://www.denverpost.com/news/ci_25680316/nra-others-see-colorado-mental-health-bill-gun

[Scuba]

1. The NRA sees the sunrise as a 'gun grab'.

[Starboard Tack]

2. Quelle surprise!

If the mentally unfit are not allowed to buy guns, then sales are probably gonna' take a steep dive. Even if they only comprise a small % of gun owners, they make up for a big chunk of sales.

[liberal N proud]

3. Gun nuts think everything is a gun grab

[gejohnston]

4. A broader question should be

should we change medical privacy laws, bring back the days when people were committed for frivolous or political reasons in the name of "public safety" and using a rare to one time black swan event to justify it? The Post doesn't adequate explain what these proposed changes are. Perhaps a copy of the bill and the definitions being used would be helpful.

[Eleanors38]

5. Some want to deny RKBA based on an alphabet ailment...

without due process.

But most in DU do not favor this.

Where is the bill as marked up?

[AtheistCrusader]

6. I'd like to see the text of the final draft of the bill but

on its face, this sounds like a losing proposition for the NRA.