“One of the culprits we need to examine is the fact that we’re the most overmedicated nation in the world, and a lot of those are psychiatric drugs that have blackbox warnings on them that warn of suicidal and homicidal ideation.”
“This all falls within the same movement, which is essentially trying to push the boundaries of privately manufactured firearms,” he says. “The main impact here is the erosion of state control on firearms.”
The potential chilling effect of tying gun rights to antipsychotics should argue for robust safeguards — not paralysis. We already pause the ability to drive or operate heavy machinery for far less.
“I just want to remind all of us that we’ve got to love our kids more than the politics that are holding us back.”
The heavily redacted police report NBC News obtained from the police department in Eagan, Minnesota, is dated Jan. 26, 2018, and it includes a two-word description explaining why an officer was dispatched to that address: mental health.
Westman seems to have been driven by an all-consuming, destructive force, a nihilism—the conviction that life is meaningless; that words like truth, justice and God are empty slogans; that everything must be razed.
Imagine how much more of a threat these people would be to your rights — speech, guns, religion, search and seizure, and lots more — if they were actually competent. At anything.
.@TGowdySC is 100% WRONG! Trading freedom for safety is a false choice—our rights are non-negotiable. Gun control fails because criminals,
While Perez apparently knows something about the courts and the criminal justice system, one thing he’s embarrassingly ignorant about is firearms. He prominently displayed that for all the world to see this morning in the above clip.
As part of its commitment to safety, AFGSC is implementing enhanced inspection procedures for the M18 pistol. The command’s bases will include additional inspection criteria for the areas where potential issues were found during the M18 pause.
