"Mentally Unstable"

The State of New York is going to “deem” 278 gun owners as “mentally unstable” so they can confiscate their guns. Remember when the Soviet Union declared many of their “enemies” as insane and put them in asylums? Therefore not having to prove them to be criminals, but simply mentally deficient (in somebody's OPINION) and thus shutting them up. Now it’s happening here. They did it by cross-referencing gun owners with names on a database list of “mentally deficient people.” Which, of course, it can appear on those lists whenever somebody has an OPINION that they’re mentally deficient. No legal system is required to get on such a list, and it’s almost impossible to be removed, once there. They say, “It takes only one person to wreak havoc and tragedy if they have access to a firearm.” One problem with that: they DO “have access” to a firearm, ILLEGALLY, if they want to. Declaring them insane isn’t going to stop them from getting a gun if they really want it. Laws and regulations never do. But it WILL allow them to confiscate many guns, based on somebody’s OPINION. (Fox News)