Awhile back I wrote a column that said you know it’s bad thing when they trot out the kids to pass legislation, because it means that they have no legitimate argument to defend so are appealing to your normal parental instincts.


It’s for the kids! You know it’s bad legislation, by how many kids they tell you it affects. It’s how we got schools with bloated budgets building Taj Mahal schools and custodians earning 100k a year providing chicken nuggets in the cafeteria that are just thrown away.


The argument against anything that might be done is also necessarily injurious to your cause since you’ll look like you don’t care about kids; that you are evil ogre if you do. In particular they paint conservatives as a bunch of Scrooges when they do that, saying that we don’t care about clean water or a good environment for education.


That’s why when President Obama trotted out kids letters in a base appeal to the sympathies of the voters on gun control I knew we were going to get hosed for sure.
Hosed is right too—Obama signed executive orders that basically opened the flood gates to federal gun control by allowing the government to link your health care to your right to own a gun. He removed HIPPA barriers designed to protect you, and replaced them with a federal standard of health linked to gun ownership.


It’s only a matter of time before the government argues that you cannot own a gun because your mental health is in question.


How many people are on tranquilizers, or on mental health drugs like Prozac and other drugs like it? 20%? 40%? If you ever took drugs, even something as mild as Ambien to help you sleep you could be subject to restricted gun ownership. And by establishing a federal background check they now have the records to cross reference to do it.


Make no mistake; the executive orders signed by Obama yesterday were not in the best interest of the American people. They were in the best interests of the American government, who now seeks to circumvent the 2nd Amendment by using Obamacare standards. They have already established the right off government to prevent a mentally ill person from acquiring a gun, now all they have to do is label everyone as mentally ill.
Furthermore, they are going to establish a federal background check. On the surface, this seems laudable, but remember, the federal government is the only one that has access to those records. They are going to allow individual states access to those records too—thus combining federal and state background checks under the umbrella of medical safety checks. When they establish what those guidelines are, under the new research and studies they propose, hold onto to your guns folks.


In short they reinvented medical care between your doctor and you as between you , your doctor and government gun control. They established a federal standard by which a person could be determined to be mentally ill—owning a gun. And they established the right to determine who and who can not own a gun based on your medical history.
A frightening prospect indeed.


So the next time your doctor asks you if you own a gun do the right thing. Do the smart thing for your own protection.


Tell him no.


Especially if you own a gun.