{"id":35018,"date":"2013-04-10T05:44:33","date_gmt":"2013-04-10T09:44:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=35018"},"modified":"2013-04-10T06:03:32","modified_gmt":"2013-04-10T10:03:32","slug":"follow-doctors-orders-lose-your-constitutional-rights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=35018","title":{"rendered":"Follow Doctor&#8217;s Orders, Lose Your Constitutional Rights"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It looks like that could now be the case in the People\u2019s Republic of New York.<\/p>\n<p>A lawyer in the Buffalo area is reporting two cases where <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wben.com\/Attorney--Use-Anti-Anxiety-Meds--Lose-Pistol-Permi\/16002790\">handgun ownership permits were suspended purportedly because the permit holders were taking anti-anxiety medications<\/a>. \u00a0The attorney is representing either one or both of the individuals involved in those cases.<\/p>\n<p>Presumably, these individuals were taking their anti-anxiety medications because their physician had prescribed them.<\/p>\n<p>Full details are not available, so there may be other factors involved.\u00a0 But even so, this raises a number of troubling questions:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Who told police that these individuals were taking anti-anxiety medications?<\/li>\n<li>Absent other factors indicating risk, isn\u2019t such notification a violation of privacy laws concerning information contained in personal medical records?<\/li>\n<li>Is the use of a medication alone sufficient reason to suspend a constitutional right?\u00a0 If so, which ones? How about other medications, like opiate pain killers prescribed post-surgery?<\/li>\n<li>How many police officials in NY take anti-anxiety medications?\u00a0 Are they now being removed from their jobs, since firearms proficiency is a key element in performing the duties of law enforcement?<\/li>\n<li>Are other professionals in occupations with public health and\/or safety responsibilities (e.g., doctors, nurses, pharmacists, bus drivers, etc . . . . ) going to have their professional credentials suspended under similar circumstances?<\/li>\n<li>What about spouses and other family members?\u00a0 Do <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">their<\/span> permits get suspended if anyone in the household is taking a \u201cprohibited medicine\u201d?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Looks to me like \u201csomebody\u2019s got some \u2018splainin\u2019 to do\u201d here, Lucy.\u00a0 And, frankly, I hope that \u2018splainin\u2019 is done by the idiot(s) who made this stupid decision \u2013 while they\u2019re standing in line at the unemployment office.<\/p>\n<p>That almost certainly won\u2019t happen \u2013 this occurred in the People\u2019s Republic of New York.\u00a0 But it should, and one can hope.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It looks like that could now be the case in the People\u2019s Republic of New York. &hellip; <a title=\"Follow Doctor&#8217;s Orders, Lose Your Constitutional Rights\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=35018\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Follow Doctor&#8217;s Orders, Lose Your Constitutional Rights<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":623,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[82],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35018","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gun-grabbing-fascists"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35018","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\/623"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=35018"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35018\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35018"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35018"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35018"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}