SENATE BILL: Firearms and Mental Health Act of 2013 (Law'd)

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[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

Senator, you have 24 hours to commence an advocacy here.

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One of the main problems that has in fact played a direct role in at least two of the recent RL shootings (Tuscon and Aurora) has been the failure to identify/seek appropriate measures on the part of those close to the shooters before the incident. Therefore the treatment (while in some cases may certainly be lacking but in the cases that it isn't so) may end up going unutilized before it is too late. Typically, becaue either that person is a family member (and thus doesn't want to be responsible for institutionalizing a relative or a none relative (could be a group of people) who prefer not to rock the boat and just hope he doesn't whip out an AR-15 in their office building.

Part of this is self inflicted by society because of the way it treats mental health, which serves to create a stigma that leads people to avoid treatment or leads a second person (relative or not) to not take any action towards getting the troubled person professional assistance.

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Perhaps we should tax ammunition at a higher rate than the firearms themselves so we don't encourage too many people to turn to the black market for the guns themselves, but still make up the money when people go to buy bullets?

Either is potential black market item really, but I guess if we want one or the other to be less likely to be acquired that way, it is the gun itself.

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Are there any more amendments here? This is pretty big Fing deal don't you know!

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The amendment has passed. Anything else here?

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2.2f is problematic for sure, just to start as it leaves insufficient provisions for self-defense.


Also a ban on semi-automatic weapons seems weird.

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

Is the underlying bill here complete, in that case?

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The President has reiterated his concerns about funding. Is there a means by which an agreement can be reached?

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

Then where do all of the Senators stand on this matter? What is the level of support?


Presently I am sort of conflicted here as some of the President's points are of great concern. We certainly do need to do something about mental health as it is an area where too many problems have been ignored for too long. Here in North Carolina in RL, it is an issue that is certainly most vexing as it was an area where Gov. Perdue promised to do something and four years later, she is gone and the problems haven't been fixed.

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

Well if there is no more to be said on this matter, then I will open a vote on this tomorrow.

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Senators, this bill is now at final vote, please vote Aye, Nay or Abstain.

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It certainly isn't perfect and doesn't "fix" either the issue of guns or mental health, but I think that it is a step in the right direction.


AYE, BUT ACKNOWLEDGING MORE WILL BE DONE HERE!!!

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

Vote on Final Passage of the Firearms and Mental Health Act of 2013:

Aye (: Averroës Nix, Ben, Franzl, HagridOfTheDeep, jdb, NC Yankee, Oakvale and Spamage
Nay (0):
Abstain (0):

Didn't Vote (1): JulioMadrid
Vacant Seats (1): Roy Barnes 2010

The Firearms and Mental Health Act of 2013 has passed the Senate and is presented to the President for executive action.

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