Jim its the infrastructure of the healthcare bill that opens the door for this exact theory. Will it happen maybe not, but it is definately in the open play book for the anti-gun lobby. Same thing with homeowners insurance, there are many companies that will not insure a home with a trampoline in the backyard, and if they do you pay a higher premium.
This is not a black helicopter theory, it is a new venue for the anti-gun lobby, and it is a serious issue.
National Healthcare is going to be a train wreck for gun owners, especially if we dont strip the power from the current Congress and White House this November and in 2012.
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- Fri Jul 16, 2010 1:28 pm
- Forum: Gun and/or Self-Defense Related Political Issues
- Topic: NRA to endorse Harry Reid?
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- Fri Jul 16, 2010 12:56 pm
- Forum: Gun and/or Self-Defense Related Political Issues
- Topic: NRA to endorse Harry Reid?
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- Views: 7678
Re: NRA to endorse Harry Reid?
If he has a good pro-gun voting record that is what the gun lobby will support. When running an organization that focuses on a single issue even if your personal politics on the macro do not allign with the politician, you have to look at what your organization is focusing on and support politicians or candidates that allign with the stance of your organization.
However with that said its not an easy thing to do and you have to calculate the pros and cons. He may have a great gun record, but he also supported healthcare, and in my opinion healthcare is going to be the backdoor to gun restrictions.
1) The government is mandating an electronic health record.
2) Once they take over that system your health records which currently have a lot of confidentially could be potentially used against you to own a firearm.
Ex. Wife leaves you, you become a little depressed, you go to the your primary care physician and he prescribes you an anti-depressent for 90 days, now its on your electronic health record. Are you fit to own a firearm? In a few years that could be up to a government official to decide. You go down to Academy to purchase a deer rifle but a government official has determined you are ineligble based on your electronic health record and they submit a denial to the NICS system already in place.
I am not saying that will happen but the federal systems set up that are acting independently of each other can very easilty be merged.
If I was NRA I am not sure I could give Harry Reid anything other than a good score as a pro-gun politician but I also do not know who he is up against either. If they have a terrible gun record I would support Harry.
However with that said its not an easy thing to do and you have to calculate the pros and cons. He may have a great gun record, but he also supported healthcare, and in my opinion healthcare is going to be the backdoor to gun restrictions.
1) The government is mandating an electronic health record.
2) Once they take over that system your health records which currently have a lot of confidentially could be potentially used against you to own a firearm.
Ex. Wife leaves you, you become a little depressed, you go to the your primary care physician and he prescribes you an anti-depressent for 90 days, now its on your electronic health record. Are you fit to own a firearm? In a few years that could be up to a government official to decide. You go down to Academy to purchase a deer rifle but a government official has determined you are ineligble based on your electronic health record and they submit a denial to the NICS system already in place.
I am not saying that will happen but the federal systems set up that are acting independently of each other can very easilty be merged.
If I was NRA I am not sure I could give Harry Reid anything other than a good score as a pro-gun politician but I also do not know who he is up against either. If they have a terrible gun record I would support Harry.