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Social Security moves to block the mentally ill from purchasing guns
- hackuser 10y agoThe Social Security Administration (SSA) is proposing to report people who receive disability benefits and have a mental health condition to the FBI's background check system. A few thoughts: 1) Wow: All mental health conditions (among Social Security disability recipients) are suspect and will be reported to the police. 2) How does the Social Security Administration even know who has a "mental health condition"? What about theh privacy of medical records? 3) Note how vulnerable this group is; if you are relying on Social Security disability payments, you probably can't afford to forgo them in order to protect your privacy. Civil rights are only for tose who can afford them. 4) Finally, what would a President with fascist-like tendancies do with the massive government and commercial surveillance infrastructure, with so few privacy protections?