Social Justice Warriors at the Department of Justice

[justinacolmena]

Amended Definition of “Adjudicated as a Mental Defective” and “Committed to a Mental Institution” (2010R-21P)

18 U.S. Code § 922 - Unlawful acts

(d) It shall be unlawful for any person to sell or otherwise dispose of any firearm or ammunition to any person knowing or having reasonable cause to believe that such person—
(4) has been adjudicated as a mental defective or has been committed to any mental institution;

(g) It shall be unlawful for any person—
(4) who has been adjudicated as a mental defective or who has been committed to a mental institution;
… to ship or transport in interstate or foreign commerce, or possess in or affecting commerce, any firearm or ammunition; or to receive any firearm or ammunition which has been shipped or transported in interstate or foreign commerce.

Not only does this violate the Second Amendment, but it violates the Thirteenth Amendment as well, because

1. an adjudication as a mental defective is, technically, slavery; and
2. a commitment to a mental institution is, technically, involuntary servitude.

And these conditions shall not exist within the United States under the Thirteenth Amendment, except as punishment for crime, which an adjudication of mental illness is, purportedly, not.

Transcript of 13th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution: Abolition of Slavery (1865) (print-friendly version)

§1. Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction.
§2. Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation.

Clearly, all gun control legislation on the grounds of mental health is inappropriate, unconstitutional, and unenforcible in light of the Thirteenth Amendment.

 

[DGS49]

Oh boy. A Constitutional Scholar without a clue.

 

[justinacolmena]

Oh boy.

That's slavery, too, now, isn't it? Just call a black man “boy.”

A Constitutional Scholar without a clue.

And slaves aren't supposed to read, I take it.

I have clues & I have insight into these things, believe you me. And I don’t work for your department.