As with all contemporary authoritarian governments, the psychiatric system is being used to circumvent courts and bypass normal legal due process.
That's getting more and more evident with the medical profession (not necessarily individual Doctors) becoming more anti-gun.
Then on top of everything else, the bills from the short stay at the hospital and EMS bills that they billed me, along with what I had to pay the attorney adds up to a large amount of money,” he adds.
Well, if I can repeat myself, "Accusations are cheap, defense is expensive." The anti-gun factions are well aware of this, and will take any measures to get you ensnarled in the legal morass.
Don't forget: Prosecutors and bureaucracies have their own full-time, eight-hour-a-day attorneys who are expert in their particular branch of enforcement, whereas you, you poor slob, have to pay your attorney $mucho per hour to get you off the hook.
And he probably has to spend hours researching the particular problem you have in order to mount a defense.
Accusations are cheap, defense is expensive.
Terry, 230RN