From The Hill:
"The Gun Owners of America group, which boasts more than 300,000 members, has been warning its ranks that the proposed healthcare legislation would compile the information of Americans into a government database. The group says that by using this data, the government could deem a citizen “medically unfit” to carry a gun...
"“All of the proposals that we’re aware of would handle people’s health data that way,” said Larry Pratt, executive director of the group.“And then you end up having a gazillion people lose their gun rights because of some medical record that someone doesn’t like, where they say, ‘Oh, that might be a danger to their self or others.’ No trial, no due process, just gone.”
"The group also objects to Health and Human Services Secretary Katherine Sebelius, saying that she is prone to restrict gun rights.“It wouldn’t be any problem for her to drag up some old discredited study from the [Centers for Disease Control and Prevention] and say, ‘Guns are contagious and they’re a public health menace...
Gov't: Trust us--we know what's best for you and all your people, really: http://thehill.com/leading-the-news/gun-rights-control-groups-find-new-fight-in-health-debate-2009-08-21.html
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