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[Frumple]

No? Not necessarily, anyway. Abnormal morality in no substantial way guarantees a difficulty with experiencing normal perception, or engaging in normal behaviors and social interactions. Someone with them may have unusual behavior patterns or means of interaction on top of the usual, but that doesn't in and of itself entail they have any trouble in regards to normal behavior.

Depends a lot on the abnormal set of morals, of course, but still.

E: Speaking of insanity, it appears that Texas has gone through with a law that bars state-run psychiatric hospitals from disallowing weapons on their premises. I'll just, uh. I'll be going around texas if I go west anytime soon. Originating report seems to be behind a paywall, so have the second google hit.

E2: I think that quoted republican response might be the best/worst part of it. "It's up to the hospitals to keep dangerous weapons away from their patients," says Gun-nut Politician, in support of a law legally barring hospitals from keeping dangerous weapons away from their patients.

It's like a gunpowder huffing madman's first attempt at a game of riddles.

[Shadowlord]

Who gets to define what "normal morality" is?

[inteuniso]

Who gets to define what "normal morality" is?

Your 2 year old sister, a Syrian refugee who escaped to Burundi.

[Dorsidwarf]

Who gets to define what "normal morality" is?

A forum's admin team.

So, uh, in the real world....

Chinese censors?

[Loud Whispers]

Who gets to define what "normal morality" is?

Joe, never fucking question Joe

[Flying Dice]

A lot of these militia types have military training, and they're also holed up in a building.

So what you're saying is that the tribespeople should wait until they're all drunk/asleep, sneak up, barricade the entrances, and light the place on fire? :^)

[Loud Whispers]

A lot of these militia types have military training, and they're also holed up in a building.

So what you're saying is that the tribespeople should wait until they're all drunk/asleep, sneak up, barricade the entrances, and light the place on fire? :^)

Sounds like what you need is some beekeepers to make them sleepy

[WealthyRadish]

Nothing gets me to sleep after a tough day like a good huff of smoldering Constitution.

[Sheb]

My understanding is that Texas just passed an open-carry law and didn't include a specific exemption for psychiatric hospital, but since I've seen here that hospitals (and businesses) are allowed to ban guns on their premise, I guess that just mean that hospitals will have to put up signs?

[Strife26]

My understanding is that Texas just passed an open-carry law and didn't include a specific exemption for psychiatric hospital, but since I've seen here that hospitals (and businesses) are allowed to ban guns on their premise, I guess that just mean that hospitals will have to put up signs?

Pretty much. From my understanding, it just puts the onus on the business owner to declare the property non-open carry. Apparently it's been a fairly large source of business to sign makers

[Morrigi]

Pretty much. From my understanding, it just puts the onus on the business owner to declare the property non-open carry. Apparently it's been a fairly large source of business to sign makers

Yes, but it does open the business up to litigation if someone gets shot on the premises. As for hospitals, yes, they just have to put up signs.

[My Name is Immaterial]

The Governor of Texas wants to amend the constitution.
He's not just flapping his mouth; he's got a 92 page plan.
Highlights include:

Prohibit Congress from regulating activity that occurs wholly within one State.
Require Congress to balance its budget.
Prohibit administrative agencies—and the unelected bureaucrats that staff them—from creating federal law.
Prohibit administrative agencies—and the unelected bureaucrats that staff them—from preempting state law.
Allow a two-thirds majority of the States to override a U.S. Supreme Court decision.
Require a seven-justice super-majority vote for U.S. Supreme Court decisions that invalidate a democratically enacted law.
Restore the balance of power between the federal and state governments by limiting the former to the powers expressly delegated to it in the Constitution.
Give state officials the power to sue in federal court when federal officials overstep their bounds.
Allow a two-thirds majority of the States to override a federal law or regulation.

Full plan here.

[Bauglir]

today in the news:

foolish man has foolish plan

[Powder Miner]

Restore the balance of power between the federal and state governments by limiting the former to the powers expressly delegated to it in the Constitution.

T-thomas Jefferson?

(it's not the turn of the 19th century anymore guy)

[FearfulJesuit]

Nah, the Tea Party does actually have a point here- the feds have a significantly larger amount of power than the framers ever intended them to have. The only issue is that if you turn back the clock to the 1920s when they were reined in as intended, you also have to tear down the entire edifice of the 20th-century regulatory-and-welfare state, which would be an utter disaster. So pretty much everyone either a) ignores the actual Constitution because it's the only pragmatic option, or b) wants to dismantle everything the Constitution doesn't let the feds do, and doesn't care that it'll be a catastrophe.

It's high time for another Constitutional Convention, in my opinion. Jefferson was on to something- every 19 years is too often for a rewrite, but running a 21st-century superpower on an 18th-century legal document with a few edits over the years invites crises that can't easily be fixed.