I Feel Like My Rights Have Been Taken Away

Why do anti-gun people feel they have the right to take away guns?

It isn’t a right in every constitution. It’s only a right in the U.S. constitution. So when my State and Federal governments became convinced certain guns were too common, the constitution in the country I was living in at the time allowed the State to take many of the particularly nasty guns away and I did not and could not object. There are 7.4 billion people in the world and 319 million U.S. citizens, so whiles that is a substantial, important, but relatively small minority, it’s most certainly not universal.As for is it being a “natural” right, going back to pre U.S. Constitution days - tracing it back to the Magna Carta and longbow, swords and spears (say) , well, I contend this reasoning is problematical. Unstated rights like that are much more subject to interpretation, and other countries - the U.K. for example, without a written constitution does not recognise it in the same way that certain people from the U.S. might. And that was the country the Magna Carta was signed in.As for the right in the U.S. (since the question implies only the U.S. ), every other right is not totally unfettered either. The much overused argument concerning the right to yell fire in a theatre does not allow the right to “dangerous speech”, for example. I’m sure there are other better ways of putting that argument, but if there are controls over the first U.S. amendment, why not the second?Additionally, the “shall not be infringed” does not apply to all arms, just to some. Exactly which ones have been chosen as allowable ought to be open to refinement over the years. Nuclear arms, Rocket launchers, Land mines - are they all allowable under the same amendment. Would a Star trek “phasor” be legal? A high energy hand held Neutron beam thrower? A kinder suprise (no, sorry they are illegal).Finally, the U.S. constitution does not prevent the U.S. states from making different laws and regulations regarding the exact same weapons and that is clearly the case. Gun laws in NY, Illinois, and California are quite different than, say Utah, Nevada and Texas.

What options do I have if I feel my rights were violated when I was involuntarily committed to a mental hospital for 20 days?

As has been a patient myself, in a similar situation, my best advice I can give you, (even if you don't want/want medication) is stay the F out of those places. If you can, stay the F away from psychiatrists, as many are incompetent. They are people, too, NOT god's. It is not an exact science, and that is one reason why many people do not agree with it and make fun of it or the like. They go on observation and many diagnoses of psychosis can be explained in medical science, even if it is a physical abnormality of the brain, not observation alone. I used to be on the psychiatry's side to help my problems until I noticed they had ridiculous diagnoses in DSM IV.I would also say, whatever they thought was wrong with you, research it and/or research what you know is going on with you because you know your own reality best.No, I am not a scientologist. I am not religious. I am just someone who has been through that experience, and has not only been treated unfairly but has seen others treated unfairly while in a hospital.This answer like a few will probably been hidden or rated low.Someone said Fake IT. I say once you get what you need (meds, therapy), yes, fake it and get out. Whether you got what you needed or not, let me be one to say there are MANY incompetent hospitals out there. I can refer you to reputable articles of hospitals that have illegally abused AND killed patients. It only requires a high school diploma to be a mental health tech in many states where some technicians have been incarcerated/jailed before applying to be a MHT. The thing is, the more low class the hospital, the higher percentage of patient abuse it is more likely to have because they detain people who do not have insurance and/or family to help them, like the homeless, etc.People are not, not, not kidding when they say mental hospitals get away with ill-treatment of patients. Try to sue them and the first thing they will employ on THEIR case is that you were mentally incompetent at the time.

What does a heart attack feel like?

I had a major heart attack in 2014, and here is my story:I woke up not feeling well - I couldn’t explain it… I just didn’t feel well.Around 9am, my mother and father stopped by; they had gone to the stations of the cross at the church right down the road. I began feeling a pain in my right arm, but I tried to ignore it. My mother looked at me and said that I didn’t look well, but I told her I was fine, so her and my father left.So, it was just me and my 23 year old son. He saw me rubbing my arm and asked me what was wrong. I told him I wasn’t sure - that it was like a pressure pain that was moving up my arm. He said it sounded like a heart attack, and I laughed because I thought that I was too young for a heart attack. In 2014 I was going to be 43, I believe.Anyhow, I told him that I was going to take a hot shower and put the water on my arm but that I was going to leave the door open in case I needed him to call someone. I got in the shower. At that point, the pain was in my upper arm and neck. I stood under the hot water and aimed on my neck, but it did not help. I was uncomfortable, but I managed to get out and get dressed.I then told my son that maybe a nap would make me feel better, but after just two minutes of lying down, I was too uncomfortable to bear it. I thought that I would do a breathing treatment to make myself feel better. To this day, I still wonder why in the world I thought that a breathing treatment would be effective even though I was breathing just fine and the pain was in my arm and neck.Anyway, I took out my nebulizer and albuterol and started the machine. I took one deep breath and the pain shot up from about a 5 to past a 10. I cried for my son to call 911.I made it to the local hospital, and they performed many tests and gave by nitro glycerin four times. They then stabilized me so that I could fly in the Flight for Life helicopter into the city for emergency surgery. In the city, I had a stent put in. That night, the nurse accidentally opened up my surgical site and blood splattered everywhere, making me lose so much blood that I needed two transfusions.I was told that I was lucky to be alive, and that I should have come in to the hospital when I first felt the pain in my arm and neck, and that that would have saved me a lot of trouble. I also suffered a mild brain injury because I didn’t have enough oxygen going to my head.