Discussion: Texas Bill Would Keep Patient's Gun Ownership Status Out Of Medical Records

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Another bill is making its way through the legislature. It will state hospitals and mental health workers are prohibited from notifying authorities if a patient, at time of discharge from treatment, makes plausible threats they intend to drive to Washington D.C. and kill Obama. Because Texas.

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That should be awesome for airline pilots.

In an effort to reduce the number of deaths from ‘lead’ poisoning,
Drs should be able to find out how much ‘lead’ is in households of patients…

The latest example of the Teabaggers’ ‘Treat Em Like Mushrooms’ approach to government.

“Keep 'em in the dark and feed then shit.”

And now we see the full extent of gun-hugger paranoia revealed in all its grotesque glory. These tools are not concerned about the privacy of their medical information, but, gasp, what if someone finds out I have a gun? Oh, horrors. They truly imagine that the black Kenyan in the White House is really coming to round up their guns, and will pore through medical records to find them. Who is feeding this paranoia? Meet the boss: http://www.nrapublications.org/index.php/15162/the-catastrophic-consequences-of-gun-registration/