{"id":10117,"date":"2009-04-28T06:10:11","date_gmt":"2009-04-28T11:10:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=10117"},"modified":"2009-04-28T08:53:27","modified_gmt":"2009-04-28T13:53:27","slug":"feel-like-youre-being-watched","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=10117","title":{"rendered":"Feel like you’re being watched?"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Olga sent me this article from the Marine Corps Times<\/a> (written by our old buddy Rick Maze<\/a>) about the bill before Congress to protect Veterans’ gun rights;<\/p>\n

The Veterans 2nd Amendment Protection Act, pending before the Senate Veterans\u2019 Affairs Committee, would limit the circumstances in which a veteran\u2019s name could be added to a federal database used to do instant background checks for gun purchases.<\/p>\n

By law, anyone \u201cadjudicated as a mental defective,\u201d such as people found to be a danger to themselves or others or who lack the mental capacity to manage their affairs, must be registered in the database.<\/p>\n

The bill, S 669, which has 15 co-sponsors, would prohibit VA from submitting names to the National Instant Criminal Background Check database unless a judicial authority finds the individuals to be a danger to themselves or others.<\/p>\n

VA has been turning over the names of veterans who have had someone else appointed to handle their financial affairs. Sen. Richard Burr, R-N.C., ranking Republican on the veterans committee and sponsor of the bill, said VA has sent names of more than 117,000 veterans to the Justice Department since 1998 under the policy.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The article goes on to mention that the Bush Administration was just as guilty as the Obama Administration of not changing this terrible policy. That doesn’t make it right – there are things lots of us didn’t like about the Bush Administration. Using unrelated data bases to interfere with veterans’ rights is one of them.<\/p>\n

I could almost understand it if each case was reviewed by a doctor to determine whether the veteran was a danger before his\/her name was submitted to the DOJ, but that doesn’t seem to be the case.<\/p>\n

(Editor’s Note:<\/strong> I took the above photo of East German border guards. The Bavarian Police who were with us said that it was a border leader training course out for a day of practical exercise.) <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Olga sent me this article from the Marine Corps Times (written by our old buddy Rick … Feel like you’re being watched?<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10117","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberals-suck"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10117","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10117"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10117\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}