{"id":34518,"date":"2013-03-12T15:04:58","date_gmt":"2013-03-12T19:04:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=34518"},"modified":"2013-03-12T15:04:58","modified_gmt":"2013-03-12T19:04:58","slug":"va-says-they-wont-comply-with-legacy-governors-gun-laws","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=34518","title":{"rendered":"VA says they won&#8217;t comply with legacy governor&#8217;s gun laws"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My cousin Scott sends us a link to an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/us\/2013\/03\/11\/veterans-administration-says-its-mental-health-counselors-wont-obey-ny-gun\/#ixzz2NHkGSgiS\">Associated Press<\/a> article which reports that the Department of Veterans&#8217; Affairs won&#8217;t be complying with the portion of legacy governor Cuomo&#8217;s new gun laws which would require healthcare providers to turn over the names of their patients who they think might be a danger to themselves or others;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Several veterans and their advocates say it would deter many from seeking counseling and medications to deal with post-traumatic stress disorder or other psychological issues. Veterans fear their rights would be taken away.<\/p>\n<p>Under the law pushed by Gov. Andrew Cuomo, the information would be used to determine whether someone should give up a gun license or weapon.<\/p>\n<p>VA spokesman Mark Ballesteros says federal laws protecting veterans&#8217; treatment records take precedence.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Well, good for them, if they stick to their guns, so to speak. Although it does create a conundrum since most of the conservatives are saying that we need people control more than gun control. But, on the other hand, despite what the majority of Leftists believe, it&#8217;s not veterans who are the problem in this country, so the VA not cooperating with New York State won&#8217;t impact the overarching gun violence issue.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My cousin Scott sends us a link to an Associated Press article which reports that the &hellip; <a title=\"VA says they won&#8217;t comply with legacy governor&#8217;s gun laws\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=34518\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">VA says they won&#8217;t comply with legacy governor&#8217;s gun laws<\/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":[82,143],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34518","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gun-grabbing-fascists","category-veterans-affairs-department"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34518","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=34518"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34518\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34518"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34518"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34518"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}