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Mar. 12, 2013 5:50pm Liz Klimas

California Woman in Hospital for Mental Illness Has Guns Confiscated As Does Her Husband

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Just last week, the California Senate approved a $24 million funding bill to expedite the process of collecting guns from owners in the state who legally acquired them but have since become disqualified due to felony convictions or mental illness.

Such was recently the case for one woman, who had been in the hospital voluntarily for mental illness last year that she says was due to medication she was taking. Lynette Phillips of Upland, Calif., told TheBlaze in a phone interview Monday she had purchased a gun years ago for her husband, David, as a present. That gun, as well as two others registered to her law-abiding husband (who does not have a history of felonies or mental illness), were seized last Tuesday.

“My husband is upset that they took the right from us that should never have been taken, Phillips told TheBlaze.

But according to the state of California, that doesn’t matter.

“The prohibited person can’t have access to a firearm” regardless of who the registered owner is, Michelle Gregory, a spokeswoman for the attorney general’s office, told to Bloomberg News.

According to the Los Angeles Times last week, budget cuts created a backlog of 19,000 people in the state with more than 40,000 guns that they are no longer legally allowed to own.

Such a Prohibited Armed Persons File is created through the Office of the Attorney General. When a person is entered into the Automated Criminal History System, the Consolidated Firearms Information System is also checked to see if they might have possession of a gun. The same check is conducted for those involuntarily admitted into the hospital for mental illness as well.

Bloomberg reported that nine police with the state’s Department of Justice wearing bulletproof vests and carrying Glocks went to homes on March 5 to retrieve the guns from people who, under this law, were no longer allowed to own. The Phillips family was one of them.

Phillips told TheBlaze the authorities arrived in unmarked cars Tuesday night around 8 p.m. Seeing as how she had never been in trouble with the law before, when they asked to enter, she said “sure,” not thinking to ask for a warrant. This gun confiscation law doesn’t go so far as to give officers warrants to enter property without permission.

Phillips explained that she and her husband were seated at their dining room table and questioned about the firearms. Phillips showed authorities where the weapons were located — a handgun in the top dresser drawer and two rifles in a safe in the garage. After Phillips unlocked the case in the garage, she said officers pulled her away from the guns and back into the house.

“They weren’t mean,” Phillips said. “I know they were just doing their job.”

But it’s a job Phillips said that never should have had to be done in the first place.

Phillips told TheBlaze she had an adjustment to her medication in December and could not stop crying. Her personal psychiatrist suggested she go to Aurora Charter Oak Hospital in Covina, Calif., where she said she was admitted voluntarily, not a threat to herself or others. Then, when she reviewed her file, Phillips said the nurse had recorded that she was involuntarily admitted and indicated she might be a suicide risk. Phillips claims the nurse had put words into her mouth.

“I kept telling her I had a grand-baby at home and had to be better for Christmas,” she said. “Does that sound like the words of someone who is a risk to themselves and others?”

Phillips believes — and noted online reviews of the center should substantiate her claims — that the process at the psychiatric hospital was a joke. Bloomberg contacted the hospital for a response regarding Phillips’ admittance but had not received a reply.

Still, the issue of patients potentially being misdiagnosed speaks of the larger implications of the laws that might apply following such a hospital admittance.

“Let’s see if we can’t prevent this from happening to someone else,” Phillips said, calling what has happened since she was in the hospital a “snowballing” effect.

“I do feel I have every right to purchase a gun,” she told Bloomberg. “I’m not a threat. We’re law-abiding citizens.”

She also pointed out the length of time it took before authorities had come to collect the firearms.

“This happened in December,” Phillips said. “I asked them at what point where they notified. They said between 24 to 48 hours after I was in the hospital.”

As Phillips pointed out, if she were truly a risk to herself or others, the authorities didn’t claim the guns in timely fashion. Timeliness could be what the state senate’s new funds for the collection of such firearms could be for. Some disagree, though, with where the new money is coming from. According to the LA Times, the $24 million would be made over three years from a fee paid for by those registering their guns in the state.

Bloomberg reported, according to state records, around 2,000 firearms, 117,000 rounds of ammunition and 11,000 magazines were collected under the law last year.

As for the Phillips family being reinstated with their firearms, she said they have to wait 30 days while an investigation is underway before she can appear in front of a judge who will determine her competency.

“What they are investigating, I have no idea.”

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Comments (239)

ALfromVAl
Posted on March 12, 2013 at 6:33pm
Please, Please, Please, come to my home and try to confiscate my firearms. My wife is on prozac,

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- HOOT_OWL
  Posted on March 12, 2013 at 7:42pm
  Coming out of California that believes h0mosexuality is normal.
  The land of fruit flakes and nuts. ‘They have redefined crazy’ who are they to
  determine who’s sane . Not to mention the “eccentric” movie star .
  
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- SendTheMeteors
  Posted on March 12, 2013 at 8:01pm
  Isn’t the NRA all about enforcing existing laws?
  
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- LakeHartwellSailor
  Posted on March 12, 2013 at 8:19pm
  Sendthemeteors:
  
  The NRA Mission Statement is as follows:
  
  Mission:
  
  To protect the Second Amendment right to bear arms, and to promote safe, responsible, and competent use of firearms.
  
  THATS the Mission of the NRA….DO YOUR FREAKING RESEARCH!
  
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- LookingGlass123
  Posted on March 12, 2013 at 8:22pm
  Would love for them to come to my house for I am ready and waiting!
  
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- mikem1969
  Posted on March 12, 2013 at 8:31pm
  Now every liberal progressive state will go after the same type of legislation so they can begin statewide gun confiscations of law abiding citizens. They will define one angry outburst a mental illness and go for the guns.
  
  Please mr government man, come to my house and try. I DARE YOU.
  
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- The_Cabrito_Goat
  Posted on March 12, 2013 at 8:32pm
  This will definitely help incentivize people who may be at risk for mental illness.
  
  No, I’m serious.
  
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- thegreatcarnac
  Posted on March 12, 2013 at 9:00pm
  With all of their swagger and equipment and guns, the government goons are cowards. If they come to someone”s house that they think will defend themselves,…they will kick your door in a 3AM while you are sleeping.
  
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- 00100111
  Posted on March 12, 2013 at 9:22pm
  Send. I don’t obey illegal laws. Period. Don’t like it? Come make me do it. Please…give me a reason.
  
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- Southerner01
  Posted on March 12, 2013 at 9:38pm
  This just in, Millions of psychologists and psychiatrists go bankrupt as people with issues decide to gut through them rather than lose their constitutional rights.
  
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- CALLMEMSGT
  Posted on March 12, 2013 at 11:23pm
  I got nothing.
  
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- DesdemonasCrew
  Posted on March 12, 2013 at 11:31pm
  Come and Get ‘em!
  
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- Anonymous T. Irrelevant
  Posted on March 13, 2013 at 1:07am
  “What they are investigating, I have no idea.”
  =================================
  I’m sure they will make something up.
  
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- Horsewithnoname
  Posted on March 13, 2013 at 2:02am
  Alfromval…maybe you’d better hush!, This confiscation stuff is starting to get serious…..The newly appointed gun takers are not too much into sarcasm.
  
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- geeman
  Posted on March 13, 2013 at 7:03am
  Meatyoriface,The NRA is about protecting the constitution, not laws that clearly disreguard their intent.You are the kind of idgit who will cry when someone trys to stop you from killing babies,spouting it’s unconstitutional,it’s a womans (right) but you won’t find that in the bill of rights,or anything even close.
  
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- Derek01
  Posted on March 13, 2013 at 7:07am
  They had no warrant. Just say NO.
  
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- Wolf
  Posted on March 13, 2013 at 7:58am
  “…the $24 million would be made over three years from a fee paid for by those registering their guns in the state…”
  So the gun owners voluntarily paid a fee to have their guns confiscated at the state’s whim. And all this without a search warrant or any probable causeother than “I’m not livng in lala land..”
  
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- redfish52
  Posted on March 13, 2013 at 8:07am
  This is just the start…I call it casual confiscation….the hardcore will come soon…
  
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- redfish52
  Posted on March 13, 2013 at 8:42am
  @ALFROMVAL…don’t wish this….if your luck is as good as mine they would shoot you and miss her….not worth the risk…
  
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- YOURSENSEI
  Posted on March 13, 2013 at 9:18am
  Mr or Ms 00100111,
  
  This is what you must know:
  
  From your warn live hands.
  
  It is so.
- WarMunger_Al
  Posted on March 13, 2013 at 9:21am
  so, where are the remaining patriots in Kalifornia? They just going to let the cops take the guns one house at a time with no repercussions? Notice the cops even using bullying tactics to gain entrance when the case doesn’t qualify for a warrant, but the serfs in Kalifornia just sit back and let it happen.
  When will people recognize this is an act of war against freedom?
  
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- Walkabout
  Posted on March 13, 2013 at 9:54am
  SendTheMeteors
  Isn’t the NRA all about enforcing existing laws?
  ***
  
  We want to enforce good laws not bad laws such as the Democrat law on slavery.
  
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- JohnofOregon
  Posted on March 13, 2013 at 10:51am
  This is the point of Obama care. All things will be controlled by Obama care. The food you eat, the hobbies you have, gun confiscation is a big piece, bank account confiscation, the car you drive, the house you live in and more are all under the new. State regulatory committees forming the rules. Anything deemed by these groups as unhealthy of dangerous to your health will now be regulated under. Regulations without statute and there is not a damn thing a legislator can do.
  
  It is perfect Marxism.
  
  @meteors will be proud when every suspected Christian will be dragged through the street and locked away for believing in things government officials can’t see.
  
  Oh the days of communist glory will make every democrat bend on knee and rejoice to the buetifull misery they have created in the perfect image of their gods Lenin, Engels, Stalin, Obama, ried and pelosi
  
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- desertspeaks
  Posted on March 13, 2013 at 1:44pm
  the camels nose is in the tent in Californicationville!
  
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- muffythetuffy
  Posted on March 14, 2013 at 10:33am
  NAZI GESTAPO AN SS PERSONNEL WERE JUST DOING THEIR JOBS WHEN THEY CAME FOR THE JEW’s GUNS AND TO TAKE THEM TO THE BOX CARS.
  
  Just like the Gestapo and SS, American police do not need warrants and can ignore the law. Just like the Gestapo and SS American police pull up to the house in unmarked cars wearing battle gear. Just like the Gestapo and SS, American police can now haul you away without an arrest warrant and keep you in a secret cell somewhere all in violation of the US Constitution Bill of Rights. Can anyone now decide that American police are now an enemies of Law and Order.
  
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eat-more-bacon-USA
Posted on March 12, 2013 at 6:30pm
Keep in mind that this is EXACTLY what will happen – ACROSS AMERICA, under obamacare. BE PREPARED!

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- rickc34
  Posted on March 12, 2013 at 7:13pm
  This is Obama’s unholy war on America. He sent the Gestapo to take their guns.
  
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- rawmilker
  Posted on March 12, 2013 at 7:25pm
  “They weren’t mean”, she said. I know they were just doing their jobs”
  
  Well, a man’s got to do something for a living these days, when these commando wannabe’s start trying this on a greater scale, DYING isn’t going to be much of a living now is it?
  
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- ThatDamnSam
  Posted on March 12, 2013 at 8:06pm
  All crazy people need to give their guns and ammo to the right wing militia’s before the gestapo shows up at their door. You can’t surrender what you don’t have…..
  
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- circleDwagons
  Posted on March 12, 2013 at 8:39pm
  Why, why why did they let them in. Never talk to the police and Never let them in your house or your car unless they have a warrant. Even with a warrant I would not remember the codes to any safe or computer. What guns officer?
  
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- 00100111
  Posted on March 12, 2013 at 9:23pm
  NEVER REGISTER YOUR GUNS! NEVER! NEVER! Do not obey illegal laws. Do not comply. Being “law abiding” will only get you killed.
  
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- motherboard
  Posted on March 13, 2013 at 1:24am
  Obamacare? What is that, oh yea, it is that other thing I won’t be participating in if I can help it.
  
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KickinBack
Posted on March 12, 2013 at 6:29pm
It never gets better, it only gets worse. Be prepared.

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- SUNTZU
  Posted on March 12, 2013 at 6:37pm
  They wont stop till they
  have all the guns.
  or……..
  
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- Seymour
  Posted on March 12, 2013 at 8:27pm
  The Upland Police Department had to be complicit in this.
  
  Okay Inland Empire Patriots, thus it begins.
  
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- SREGN
  Posted on March 13, 2013 at 9:14am
  Oh just shut up and get into the cattle car. And when you get to the camp remember: “Arbeit Macht Frei.” You, the majority of American Voters, voted for this.
  
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HOLYCOWBATMAN
Posted on March 12, 2013 at 6:24pm
Imagine you are a woman. Imagine you are sexually assaulted. Imagine you are put on antidepressants for anxiety, panic attacks and chronic insomnia. Imagine after a 4 day bout with insomnia that throws your medication and metabolism off you go the the local ER for help. Imagine they write you up as “incapable of caring for self/possible danger to self” – remember, you walked in and begged for help. Imagine they stick you in an ambulance and ship you off to your local county mental health facility – against your will. Imagine 72 disgusting hours later, and one nights sleep, you demand to go home. Imagine they point to the door and say your husband is waiting for you on the other side – BUT, you need to sign this piece of paper first. The paper states you cannot own a firearm for the next 5 years. Imagine looking at that door – yeah, I signed the frickin paper. Now I cannot protect myself. My husband cannot protect me. We cannot protect our children in our own home. It’s not imaginary. We are living it.

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- annie-oakley
  Posted on March 12, 2013 at 6:42pm
  I does not surprise me at all. Do you mind sharing which state this madness took place in so that I can avoid moving there?
  
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- HOLYCOWBATMAN
  Posted on March 12, 2013 at 6:54pm
  California – Sacramento County
  
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- johneastborough
  Posted on March 12, 2013 at 8:05pm
  @Holycowbatman, I would like to publish your story on my blog. Please drop me a line at my blog, impliedinference.wordpress.com, or follow me on Twitter – @johneastborough and send me a message.
  
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- HOLYCOWBATMAN
  Posted on March 12, 2013 at 8:09pm
  MIL-DO, you sir (?), are a moron. And yes, that spelling error was intentional: think d_i_c_k without a brain. Enough said.
  
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- Aspiemom
  Posted on March 12, 2013 at 8:12pm
  Years ago my daughter was sexually assaulted and my doctor gave me Xanax as I waited for STD testing. The whole experience was a nightmare all around and feeling terrible because I could not protect my daughter from this! Years later, while I was going through menopause, I started having panic attacks caused by the hormone imbalance and the doctor again prescribed Xanax for me for the once monthly panic attacks. Shortly after the sexual assault, my daughter has been suffering with a very painful and incurable bladder condition. The doctors put her on birth control and anti-depressants to help her live with her daily pain, these are suppose to suppress the pain transmitters in your brain. Neither one of us has MENTAL issues that should prevent us from owing a gun!
  
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- Seymour
  Posted on March 12, 2013 at 8:36pm
  San Bernardino County. Upland, CA
  
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- annie-oakley
  Posted on March 12, 2013 at 8:41pm
  @MILDOT. Um what kind of comment was that??? We women are too stupid??? Wow.
  
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- annie-oakley
  Posted on March 12, 2013 at 8:43pm
  @HolyCow: First of all, I am so sorry about what happened to you, both times you were victimized–just horrible. Is there any chance you would consider moving your family out of Cali? I can’t imagine you feel safe there, for many reasons.
  
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- Mil-Dot
  Posted on March 12, 2013 at 9:24pm
  I meant what I said and I stand by it. If you don’t like it, tough crap. I have seen this blatant disregard for one’s own safety and the aftermath with my own eyes. Ignore my message and name call all you want. Do so at your own peril.
  
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- VRW Conspirator
  Posted on March 12, 2013 at 11:34pm
  @Holy
  
  I understand where you are coming from…my wife, shortly after we got together, fell apart. Her hormones raged due to the pregnancy, her pending divorce, and just everything else going on in our lives. She tried to commit suicide. She lost the baby with a miscarriage. She was diagnosed as having Severe re-occurring depression. We went through hell with them playing with medication and dosages.
  After our marriage and getting pregnant again, she had to change some and stop other meds. She had Post Pardum on top of everything else once our boy was born. She did a voluntary committment for 3 days. It took them years to figure out which meds worked best and her diagnosis was changed to maniac-depression and then Bi-Polar.
  Now 11 years later and two babies…we left CA and moved to TX…we just bought 2 rifles, a shotgun, and a .40 S&W over this Xmas…. When everything hit the fan I knew it was now or never. We have a gun safe and our kids know gun safety, our boy is a Cub Scout.
  I have been thinking “thank God I am in TX” because in CA I knew they would be coming for my guns already.
  I respect and love cops…and military…but now my response at the door will always be “do you have a warrant? I respect you and support you but get the hell off my property without a warrant.”
  
  I would probably have signed the paper as well…my kids are too important…
  
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- galaxie_man
  Posted on March 13, 2013 at 9:03am
  Here’s another possible scenario….I am a volunteer Firefighter/EMT. I go to a devastating house fire where an entire family, including several children, dies in the fire. I have to help the state medical examiner’s office recover the bodies. I spend the next few days feeling really bad about the whole event, requiring me to get critical incident stress debriefing. Uh oh…..mental health counseling…..get ready for the visit by the jack-booted thugs to confiscate my firearms.
  
  Or do I just not say anything and blow my brains out about a month later because I am haunted by those terrible memories.
  
  Yeah, government knows what’s best.
  
  Sometimes I am personally ashamed of serving on the fire department, because it is a government entity.
  
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- sgtlw2
  Posted on March 13, 2013 at 10:53am
  I have to ask – and I’m being serious. With everything Cali has been doing to take away people’s rights, why aren’t people trying to leave? I can’t imagine living in a state like that. I was worried that my husband VA record would have them at our home, but, since the VA said SCREW YOU, We aren’t playing the game – I’m not concerned anymore. He isn’t a threat to anyone. If he were, he’d have already done something. It’s been yrs. As for the chick in the story who worked at the hosp and filled out the paperwk wrong – she should be fired, deemed untrustworthy and banned from owning a firemarm. :) After teh lady in the story gets a chance to slap the crap out of her.
  
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Grover_Standpipe
Posted on March 12, 2013 at 6:24pm
If gun ownership is a right it shouldn’t matter if you are sane or not. The right of free speech includes the right of crazy people to say crazy things. The right of free assembly includes the right to associate with people that nobody in their right mind would be caught dead with. If there was a sanity test on freedom of religion, we would only have about half as many sects in this country as we do now. The right to keep and bear arms is not a right if it does not include the right of crazy people to own guns for crazy reasons.

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- crazypillsuk
  Posted on March 12, 2013 at 7:18pm
  Uhhhh, the right for people with mental disorders to go on shooting sprees?! What about other law abiding citizens rights to not be shot at at work/school?! …oh wait I get you point, if the victims get guns as well they can shoot back, yeah that normally works really well for everyone
  
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- mlgunner
  Posted on March 12, 2013 at 8:47pm
  @crazypillsuk Crazy people and killers get the weapons they need to get no matter what the law says, who defines “crazy”, or what your opinion is. You can make a weapon deadly enough to kill multiple people by buying a gallon of gas, and a box of matches.
  In the end such laws only restrain people who would not be willing to kill in any case.
  There is no dilemma, the right of self protection is universal.
  YOU have the right to self defense no matter what your state of mind or history, and the “state” has no right to take it from you.
  As a matter of fact, the state has no “rights” whatsoever. They only have powers.
  
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- Grover_Standpipe
  Posted on March 12, 2013 at 9:08pm
  crazypillsuk
  A right to not be killed? How is that supposed to work? You could be killed with a knife, or a rock, or somebody’s bare hands. I suppose that if you think crazy people have no rights at all, we could take away their hands and feet. Is that what you propose, that we take away the hands and feet of crazy people because they have no rights at all? If that’s what you think, you might want to change your screen name to one that doesn’t include the word crazy just so nobody gets the wrong idea.
  
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- WarMunger_Al
  Posted on March 13, 2013 at 9:32am
  Exactly. it isn’t a right if it is conditional. Most “crazy” people are not a danger. If they are dangerous, why are they not locked up? If everyone exercised their right to bear arms, these mass shooting would never make it to the mass shooting category.
  
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STREBOR
Posted on March 12, 2013 at 6:22pm
So begins the fatal march to slavery.

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- civilwarcometh
  Posted on March 12, 2013 at 6:27pm
  Keeping with his race-based ideology, President Obama has named the nation’s first African American education czar to focus on improving the academic performance of black students and countering the discrimination that persists in public schools around the country.
  
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- DougHuffman
  Posted on March 12, 2013 at 6:37pm
  No, there is always self-immolation like the Buddhist monks that got even the progs attention. When they come to your door, kill one at least. Eye for an eye and citizen for citizen.
  
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- barber2
  Posted on March 12, 2013 at 6:45pm
  CIVIL: I think Obama was droned in here to purposely blow up America over the issue of race. Can you believe how many race problems that have come up during his reign? From the ” police acting stupidly ” incident, to Holder / Black Panthers , to Trayvon Martin / Jesse Jackson … Obama is no Oprah. Nor does uniting the country seem to be his goal. Dividing the country over race and capitalism seems to be his goal and the MSM seems to be part of the means to do so.
  
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- civilwarcometh
  Posted on March 12, 2013 at 7:09pm
  BARBER It’s the old divide and conquer. Chitcongo radicals have been working and preying for this opportunity. They have teamed up with every anti-American groups and organizations they could find and not just the ones in this country. They have recruited all of them from around the world. We have a really big fight ahead of us. I hope we can all pull together and support one another when the time comes to stand up. The 2 things that can bring us together is the Constitution and the Bill of Rights. Good will to all men and women…
  
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P4cooler
Posted on March 12, 2013 at 6:21pm
Now anyone with a family member (or themselves) who may have illness will be too fearful of government intrusion and never seek medical help. Big government failed again and made matters worse.

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- annie-oakley
  Posted on March 12, 2013 at 6:43pm
  Yes, exactly, they always do.
  
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TheEDGE
Posted on March 12, 2013 at 6:18pm
What is it about women practicing their second amendment rights that libs hold special disdain for. This is like the forth story today that illustrates how progressive government employees want women to sit down and shut up when it comes to self defense.

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- maggiepie
  Posted on March 12, 2013 at 7:24pm
  Think Islam.
  
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- TheEDGE
  Posted on March 12, 2013 at 8:24pm
  Uh, I try not to. Point taken, though.
  What in the heck is a forth, anyway?
  
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denkat56
Posted on March 12, 2013 at 6:18pm
Poof America has gone. California is just the start, pretty soon they’ll have all our guns and then we have to worry about the criminals, and the federal government. I hope one of the two wears a uniform so we tell them apart. But I guess it doesn’t really matter their both after the same thing. All they can get, either by force or laws. You’ll have to decide which is which, when they’re at your door.

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- mlgunner
  Posted on March 12, 2013 at 8:51pm
  You are the criminal as far as California is concerned. All you have to do is live there and you have committed a crime.
  
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Ghandi was a Republican
Posted on March 12, 2013 at 6:15pm
Soon, people who drink a soda larger than 16 0z. will be declared suicidal and unable to own a gun. Soon, there will be a large list of soda substitutes.

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LakeHartwellSailor
Posted on March 12, 2013 at 6:14pm
And so it starts.

So, Keatonc666, you said confiscation will never happen….well, it HAS started.

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- barber2
  Posted on March 12, 2013 at 6:21pm
  LAKE: Just more of the “change” the Chicago radical Democrats have planned for America.
  
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tbo
Posted on March 12, 2013 at 6:10pm
I know people that are on medication for high blood pressure or migraine headaches that is typically used for depression. Because the medication is listed as being used for depression the medical insurance is higher or their level of risk is associated with the mental care issues. I worry that this type of information, which the government will have and require to be reported, will trigger similar responses with the Government coming for their guns.

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- barber2
  Posted on March 12, 2013 at 6:19pm
  Remember that the Communists used that mental illness bit to send political dissidents to gulags. Don’t think our Chicago radicals haven’t studied their Stalin as well as their Alinsky !
  
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- LakeHartwellSailor
  Posted on March 12, 2013 at 7:38pm
  Think about this…if you are a smoker, and want to stop smoking, there are drugs out there to help you. One of those drugs, Wellbutrin is also an anti-depressant. Can you imagine your doctor prescribing Wellbutrin and then the feds get wind of that? Next thing you know, they will be knocking down your door to take your firearms because you are taking Wellbutrin….never mind its because you want to quit smoking!
  
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STREBOR
Posted on March 12, 2013 at 6:08pm
It is no longer My America………….The sweet fragrance of freedom is just a mere waft in the breeze.

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justangry
Posted on March 12, 2013 at 6:06pm
Yet the sociopaths bombing children get to keep their drones. This is bull****!!! Bleeding heart libs are only further stigmatizing mental illness. What kind of logic are these people using anyway? If people who need help refuse to seek it out because they’ll lose their rights for doing so; will the crime rate go up or down? Liberals never seem to think of unintended consequences.

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- barber2
  Posted on March 12, 2013 at 6:17pm
  JUST: Their goal is gun confiscation . Controlling the people. That is their INTENDED consequence .
  
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- justsayin456
  Posted on March 12, 2013 at 7:49pm
  I am liberal and don’t agree with our current drone program. Sorry to disrupt your liberal myth.
  
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- justangry
  Posted on March 12, 2013 at 8:25pm
  Justsaying, I was referring to legislators. However, since you decided to chime in: you support liberal legislators infringing on my 2nd amendment rights, correct?
  
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- Anonymous T. Irrelevant
  Posted on March 13, 2013 at 1:27am
  JUSTANGRY
  The neocons you wanted to string up, with the buzzards, would not have taken action like this, nor created laws that take away your guns if you take drugs for mental illness.
  
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- justangry
  Posted on March 13, 2013 at 12:30pm
  @Anon, I disagree. How do you think Romney would have handled Sandy Hook? He had no problems signing into law the gun restrictions that the Dems are proposing as governor. What makes you think it wouldn’t already be the law of the land without any opposition?
  
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RLTW
Posted on March 12, 2013 at 6:05pm
Read this earlier today on another site. If you’re crazy you’re crazy, but this reads as wrong as the NJ case.

California is the canary in the coalmine, what happens there is the progressive template for all of us, it will start with something benign like soda and cigarettes.

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- RLTW
  Posted on March 12, 2013 at 6:22pm
  Oh wait progressive have already started the retraining on both those things.
  
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Redfor
Posted on March 12, 2013 at 6:04pm
At least we know how CA Law Enforcement gets ammo now..

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MrKnowItAll
Posted on March 12, 2013 at 6:02pm
I Guess you should have no Doubt that your Medical Records are No Longer PRIVATE!

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- barber2
  Posted on March 12, 2013 at 6:15pm
  A mighty heave – ho to hippa….Big Brother gets access to anything ( but the American voters do not get to see Obama’s school records ! )
  
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- annie-oakley
  Posted on March 12, 2013 at 6:47pm
  Good reminder. I would say do not give out any more info to your docs than absolutely necessary. Just imagine that what you tell your physician will be looked at by anyone that wants to, that being in the Federal Gov’t and all those that hack into their computer system (with the potential to post that info online for all your friends and family to view as well). Less is more.
  
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- maggiepie
  Posted on March 12, 2013 at 7:20pm
  Not private because of Obamacare. The Dictator and his minions strike to suppress the FREE.
  
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- BoyScout_Mom
  Posted on March 12, 2013 at 7:41pm
  No kidding… sheesh
  
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- MajorMolly
  Posted on March 12, 2013 at 8:05pm
  This should put mental health professionals out of work. Who would ever want to seek help now that we know the gestapo could break down your door & seize your private property.
  
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KevINtampa
Posted on March 12, 2013 at 6:02pm
Mount up, looks like we’ll be headed to Cali.

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- team1blazer
  Posted on March 12, 2013 at 7:45pm
  Kalifornication will take care of itself….the illegal immigrants will go after the “rich” (dollywood), the police will turn on everyone, the gangs will overthrow the “government” and all he!! will break loose. The sheeple will be masacred (with no way to defend themselves) and the progressives will cry to the chosen one to help them. Marshal law will ensue and the military troops will come in to save the day! All personal liberties will be abrogated. All corporations will cease to produce, and thus be “bailed out” by the Fed. Don’t worry though, communism is GOOD. The government knows best! end of sarcasm (sort of)…….In the meantime, prepare for the “kalifornia syndrome” to come to your city / state.
  
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mapgirl10
Posted on March 12, 2013 at 6:00pm
Why does the government believe it can infringe on our rights?

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- Triple7
  Posted on March 12, 2013 at 6:37pm
  Because they have gotten away with it.
  
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- David-FL
  Posted on March 12, 2013 at 6:38pm
  Because it is evil. Just like a criminal or thug that has evil intentions and infringes on your rights, so too, does the government.
  
  There are a couple phenomenal essays on this subject in this amazing book-
  
  http://www.amazon.com/gp/offer-listing/0451163931/ref=sr_1_1_np_1_main_olp?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1363127851&sr=1-1&condition=new
  
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civilwarcometh
Posted on March 12, 2013 at 6:00pm
To big to fail to big to jail??? More than three months after the Justice Department administered a virtual slap on the wrist to global banking giant HSBC after a whistleblower’s report to WND of massive fraud was confirmed, Attorney General Eric Holder admitted to a Senate panel he believes some banks are too big to prosecute.

Under questioning before the Senate Judiciary Committee last Wednesday, Holder said he was not referring specifically to HSBC, because it would not be “appropriate,” but the message was clear.

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Banks the size of HSBC are “too big to jail,” as a member of the Senate panel put it.

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OldSurfRat
Posted on March 12, 2013 at 6:00pm
And the last straw breaks.
Comming sooner then I thought it would.

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- civilwarcometh
  Posted on March 12, 2013 at 6:07pm
  The 100 year plan that started in 1913. You didn’t really think people voted in Chitcongo Moohamhead do ya??
  
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- civilwarcometh
  Posted on March 12, 2013 at 6:20pm
  FEDS BUYING 100 YEARS WORTH OF AMMO
  Government’s argument ‘could only fool a career civil servant’ It’s coming and they are ready are we???
  
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- OldSurfRat
  Posted on March 12, 2013 at 6:37pm
  Civil
  
  I have tried hard not to admit that it is so close but a lot of the amo was hollow point which is against the geneva convention. So where do they intend to use it.
  I guess on me.
  
  Not looking good. Not looking good at all.
  
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- YOURSENSEI
  Posted on March 13, 2013 at 9:19am
  Mr or Ms OLDSURFRAT,
  
  This is what you must know:
  
  Yes, yes, it’s all about you.
  
  It is so.
  
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OUTLAW_WEALTH
Posted on March 12, 2013 at 5:58pm
This is what happens when collectivism takes root in America. Individual rights get ignored, and only the good of the collective, (monopoly rule over the masses) is encouraged under color of law.

It ain’t law. It’s tyranny.

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- David-FL
  Posted on March 12, 2013 at 6:43pm
  Absolutely!
  
  There are a couple phenomenal essays on this subject in this amazing book.
  
  http://www.amazon.com/gp/offer-listing/0451163931/ref=sr_1_1_np_1_main_olp?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1363127851&sr=1-1&condition=new
  
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jungle J
Posted on March 12, 2013 at 5:58pm
This is bad…very Hitlereseque.

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barber2
Posted on March 12, 2013 at 5:58pm
Slippery slope …camel’s nose under the tent…Big Brother…

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S-O-B-E-R
Posted on March 12, 2013 at 5:56pm
So it begins…

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- Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
  Posted on March 12, 2013 at 7:37pm
  The president has been set, the federal level gun-grab is coming soon.
  
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- rawmilker
  Posted on March 12, 2013 at 7:57pm
  Well SNOW, they better prepare to lose men everytime they go out.
  
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- Wolf
  Posted on March 13, 2013 at 7:41am
  Yup. Kalifornia, New Jersey, New York, Minnesota, Colorado, Alabama… the list of tyrants is growing. Won’t be long before they get what they want. I think now is a good time to invest in hemp and tar companies.
  
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