More gun-grabbing “mental health” garbage in court

Imagine that! American citizens being so schizophrenic and criminally insane out our minds beside ourselves with delusions of grandeur that we actually thought it was legal for a law-abiding citizen to own a gun in America!

Imagine being not just “mentally ill” but just so absolutely insane out of your mind beside yourself with conservative conspiracy theories and delusions of paranoia that you are “formally mad” in a court of law with service of process and summons to appear before the judge for an actual hearing on your mental insanity for owning a gun!

And this is where all practice of “law” as such throughout the United States is nothing but a subdiscipline of psychiatry, and thus all law is “mental” or spiritual law, whether it is practices as mental health civil law or mental health criminal law.

Romans 7:14-25 For we know that the law is spiritual: but I am carnal, sold under sin. For that which I do I allow not: for what I would, that do I not; but what I hate, that do I. If then I do that which I would no | King James Version (KJV) | Download The Bible App Now

For we know that the law is spiritual: but I am carnal, sold under sin. For that which I do I allow not: for what I would, that do I not; but what I hate, that do I. If then I do that which I would no

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For we know that the law is spiritual: but I am carnal, sold under sin. For that which I do I allow not: for what I would, that do I not; but what I hate, that do I. If then I do that which I would not, I consent unto the law that it is good. Now then it is no more I that do it, but sin that dwelleth in me. For I know that in me (that is, in my flesh,) dwelleth no good thing: for to will is present with me; but how to perform that which is good I find not. For the good that I would I do not: but the evil which I would not, that I do. Now if I do that I would not, it is no more I that do it, but sin that dwelleth in me. I find then a law, that, when I would do good, evil is present with me. For I delight in the law of God after the inward man: but I see another law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of sin which is in my members. O wretched man that I am! who shall deliver me from the body of this death? I thank God through Jesus Christ our Lord. So then with the mind I myself serve the law of God; but with the flesh the law of sin.

The mental health part of the law is its “spirituality” today. Once you've been served in court for mental health, your body is sold for sin as a (male or female) prostitute, and you’re never again allowed to make your own decisions anymore in this life, exactly as Paul describes. If you think you can find some “law” that would allow you to make your own decisions again in this life, they just claim you are evil and a danger to yourself or others. Even if you are of a sound mind as Paul was, once having been served for mental health you are effectively a prostitute in any court of law from then on. And there is no salvation in those works of the law but only in the law of God in your own mind, through Jesus Christ.

American Bar Association: A Look at Mental Health Courts

Gun Control, Veterans’ Benefits, and Mental Incompetency Determinations

Gun Policy and Serious Mental Illness: Priorities for Future Research and Policy

Does the Second Amendment Protect the Gun Rights of Persons With Mental Illness?

Possession of Firearms by People With Mental Illness

In addition to federal laws, states have laws that govern possession of firearms and guns by those that are mentally ill.

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Bad risk? An overview of laws prohibiting possession of firearms by individuals with a history of treatment for mental illness - PubMed

For nearly 40 years, federal law has barred certain individuals with a history of mental health treatment from purchasing, receiving, or possessing firearms. State laws are a patchwork of different regulations, some much more inclusive than the federal statute, others that parallel it closely. In so …

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The Link Between Mental Illness and Firearm Violence: Implications for Social Policy and Clinical Practice - PMC

The United States has substantially higher levels of firearm violence than most other developed countries. Firearm violence is a significant and preventable public health crisis. Mental illness is a weak risk factor for violence despite popular…

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The Effects of Prohibitions Associated with Mental Illness

Analysis of the impact of prohibitions associated with mental illness on gun-related outcomes in the United States

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Mental Health Prohibitor

Federal law prohibits certain people with serious mental illness from having guns. A separate state prohibition can ensure the law is enforced properly.

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Mental Health Reporting

Universal background checks save lives from gun violence.

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Prohibition of Persons With Mental Illness From Gun Ownership Under Tyler

The U.S. Supreme Court’s Heller and McDonald decisions are the most important legal affirmations of the right of U.S. citizens to possess and bear firearms under the Second Amendment. Heller and McDonald are also significant in citing persons with mental illness as an exceptional group, whose right may be restricted by the U.S. Government. From 1968 onward, federal and state governments have enacted legislation prohibiting gun ownership by persons with mental illness who have been involuntarily committed to an institution or deemed by a legal authority to be dangerous or mentally incompetent. The U.S. Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals in its first Tyler decision ( Tyler I ) placed limitations on legislation that restricts persons with mental illness from owning firearms. In its second decision ( Tyler II ), the appellate court reversed and remanded the case to the district court with instruction to apply “intermediate scrutiny” to determine whether this statute was constitutionally applied to appellant Charles Tyler, whose right to possess firearms was restricted in 1985 after a singular involuntary commitment during a transitory mental health crisis. Although it applies only to the Sixth Circuit, Tyler could have precedential influence on gun restrictions for persons with mental illness in other jurisdictions.

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Judges’ Guide to Mental Illnesses in the Courtroom - CSG Justice Center

Advancing safety and second chances

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US federal appeals court rules that a prohibition on gun ownership for people with prior mental health issues may be unconstitutional | Human Rights Law Centre

Tyler v Hillsdale County Sheriff’s Department (6th Cir, No 13-1876, 15 September 2016) A divided US Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit ruled that a longstanding federal law banning people involuntarily committed to mental health institutions from owning a gun could violate the Second Amendm

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Updated January 2024 | American Psychiatric Foundation, The Council of State Governments Justice Center, The National Judicial College, and Policy Research Associates

Heavy-hitting hardened Democrat think tanks, it would appear. All of the above of course would be laughably absurd if the Democrats weren’t actually serious about it.