Regional police chiefs’ association head says mental well-being must be considered before gun buys

[GOYABEAN]

Regional police chiefs’ association head says mental well-being must be considered before gun buys - Mid Hudson News

SAUGERTIES – “Sane people don’t kill other people. People who suffer from mental illness commit murder,” Saugerties Police Chief Joe Sinagra said Thursday. The comments by the president of the Hudson Valley Police Chiefs Association come in the wake of the murder of students and teachers in...

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[JaguarJaguarGolf]

ACLU has stopped mental health records from being available for background checks in the past.

 

[Celt]

I think there needs to be better mental health screenings, fitness standards,etc.. for people to become LEOs. Having cowards arrest parents rather than trying to save children is apparently a running theme nowadays. We CANNOT have cowards as first responders.

 

[spat]

How about nobody is allowed to vote that isn't allowed to own a gun.

Would be real simple to make a combo voter id/pistol permit card.

If they can't be trusted, then they can't be trusted.

If it's an infringement of a non constitutionally guaranteed right, then it's certainly an infringement of a protected one.

 

[libertysnake]

The government should not be in the business of healthcare, so this is not a viable way for them to screen. The moment you give the government discretion over "mental fitness" is the moment the right evaporates.

Politicians are not doctors. The privacy relationship between a doctor and patient should be absolute.

 

[Acer-m14]

Hay Police Chief's .... how will a mental health check work out when someone is stealing one ??

 

[Stuckinny]

Having cowards arrest parents rather than trying to save children is apparently a running theme nowadays. We CANNOT have cowards as first responders.

In collogiual terms this is called focusing on the low hanging fruit.

 

[Celt]

In collogiual terms this is called focusing on the low hanging fruit.

Yep, people want to put blame somewhere so they are blaming guns. And guys like this want to distract from the failures of the LEOs that were on the ground there and really put the focus on the "low hanging fruit".

 

[BerettaGuy]

I'm sorry but I don't really give a flying crap about what some political appointee Police Cheif thinks or has to say. They will say what they have to to keep their political masters happy.

 

[kev74]

Maybe instead they could consider testicular fortitude before giving out badges or police chief appointments.