CO HB 1306

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Originally Posted by Hound

Ronin: Actually I think I did. That is why I retracted my previous post. They are actuallly asking the question we told them to. "What can we do on the mental health side?" That always starts with a commitee. I am not saying this is a small issue but it is not as sinister as it first reads (yet). We need to get in there and not let the anti-gun crowd control the discussion or this years round of Bills will be the Good-Ol-Times.

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Oh indeed... I was commenting that usually when you put Democrats in charge of something, objectivity and impartiality go out the window. Something tells me that they won't allow for an impartial, removed, and emotionally dispassionate group to aid in determinations. And if they do in fact allow for sound and unbiased determinations, who decides what is "potentially dangerous" in terms of diagnoses? I see this as a very slippery slope, especially with the inclusion of "alcohol abuse." By some definitions, drinking more than one night a week would be considered abusive behavior.

Yup, waaaaaaaaaay too much wiggle room.

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Originally Posted by Ronin13

Oh indeed... I was commenting that usually when you put Democrats in charge of something, objectivity and impartiality go out the window. Something tells me that they won't allow for an impartial, removed, and emotionally dispassionate group to aid in determinations. And if they do in fact allow for sound and unbiased determinations, who decides what is "potentially dangerous" in terms of diagnoses? I see this as a very slippery slope, especially with the inclusion of "alcohol abuse." By some definitions, drinking more than one night a week would be considered abusive behavior.

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After the debachal of the last year from the left, who in there right mind would argue except to say I think both sides have proven (really not a big fan of the Bush years either), in spades, that old adage "absolute power corrupts absolutly"