QuestioningMind
Well-Known Member
Only adjudicated mental illness. They'd have to do something requiring legal action. Since there is no test, any wacko can vote....which apparently they did in the last several elections.
A firearm is just a tool. An inert piece of metal like a car or a shovel. It requires a human being to use it. Ergo, the guns aren't the problem. We could have guns lying all about the streets and they'd never do anyone any harm unless someone tripped over them. A better mental health care system and the legislation to back it up means you'd get what you desire: separating the mentally ill from guns...and also cars, shovels, hammers, axes, etc. Most mentally ill are more of a threat to themselves than others, hence why we have over 44,000 suicides each year but less than half of that murders, about 17,000.
A better mental health care system and the legislation to back it up means you'd get what you desire: separating the mentally ill from guns...
And we're back to my original post. I'd LOVE for out government to get its act together and deal with the mental health issues in the country. But UNTIL that happens, the least we can do is implement universal background checks so mentally deranged people can't get guns.
Oh, and YES, a gun is just a tool, Guns don't kill people, people kill people. BUT a person with a GUN can kill people FAR easier and more efficiently that a person WITHOUT a gun. Personally, if a mentally deranged person is going to go on a killing spree, I'm prefer to make it as difficult for them as possible. Let's force them to make an effort and use a knife or a baseball bat... let's NOT make it as easy as possible for them to obtain deadly firearms.