Reply #7: Some points on NICS

[gorfle]

My main point, of course, was that NICS constitutes a databank containing personal information -- about the most sensitive there is, people's psychiatric histories -- that has been entered in that databank without their consent, and for no purpose related to their healthcare, when a large majority of them will likely never try to purchase a firearm. But there their personal info sits, collected and stored and vulnerable to unauthorized access and leaks for the rest of their lives.

Gosh, it's just terrible, terrible, I tell you, that we require the government to keep a list of all people who have been adjudicated mental defective or involuntarily committed to a mental institution or incompetent to handle own affairs, including dispositions to criminal charges pertaining to found not guilty by reason of insanity or found incompetent to stand trial. Horrific.

If you listen closely, you can hear the world's smallest violin playing for them.

Since they can easily go buy a firearm out of the classified ads with no check done anyhow, seems like kind of a massive infringement of privacy for no compelling reason, and hardly the least interference in order to achieve the intended result.

Yup. Might as well not have NICS at all.