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I agree that mental health professionals should be forced to report potentially dangerous people at minimum to the federal database so they can't buy guns.
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You obviously know little about the area. As I pointed out the criteria for forcing a report are not clear beyond the adjudication rule.
The SAFE acts says:
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A: MHL 9.46 requires mental health professionals to report to their local director of community services (“DCS”) or his/her designees when, in their reasonable professional judgment, one of their patients is “likely to engage in conduct that would result in serious harm to self or others.”
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That is so subjective and counter to what we know about how clinical prediction is really poor. Go read the latest meta-analyses of violence prediction, the FBI summaries of it usefulness, etc.
It is a tremendous risk to civil rights and the branding of folks. It will cause people to avoid therapy. It breaches confidentiality. An ethical therapist will have to inform the client of this risk. Would a gun owner continue to go?
How many folks would be harmed by not getting help?