Vacation To U.S. To Give Birth

[Shadow Wolf]

You do realize that "mental health institutions" have almost disappeared don't you.

Access to adequate mental health has always been lacking and inadequate for most people. For decades, even, they get built, funding gets cut, people sneer at the idea of emotions and mental health, and the centers get closed down.

And here is one of many reasons metal health problems are not reported.
Violence and Gun Reporting Laws and Mental Health | NAMI: National Alliance on Mental Illness

While that is true, it is never a good idea for there to be a gun in the home of a high-risk client, or a stock pile of pills, and other things that a client is strongly encouraged to make inaccessible during a crisis moment (generally by giving these things to a relative to hold onto, or locking them away and letting a relative keep the keys). And for the safety of self and others, disorders that bring on delusions and hallucinations should disqualify someone from owning a gun. If your brain is prone to being fundamentally incapable of distinguishing reality from hallucinations, because your brain is prone to creating them, you don't need a gun. Things can potentially get complicated enough without one.

 

[Shadow Wolf]

The fourteenth amendment does not guarantee citizenship to every person born in U.S. territory. The child must also be born “subject to the jurisdiction of the U.S.”

Once you are inside US territory (and sometimes outside of it) you are very much indeed "subject to the jurisdiction of the US."
And Uncle Sam tends to really not like it when someone challenges his authority.

 

[esmith]

Access to adequate mental health has always been lacking and inadequate for most people. For decades, even, they get built, funding gets cut, people sneer at the idea of emotions and mental health, and the centers get closed down.

While that is true, it is never a good idea for there to be a gun in the home of a high-risk client, or a stock pile of pills, and other things that a client is strongly encouraged to make inaccessible during a crisis moment (generally by giving these things to a relative to hold onto, or locking them away and letting a relative keep the keys). And for the safety of self and others, disorders that bring on delusions and hallucinations should disqualify someone from owning a gun. If your brain is prone to being fundamentally incapable of distinguishing reality from hallucinations, because your brain is prone to creating them, you don't need a gun. Things can potentially get complicated enough without one.

I guess the underlying question is: whom do you want making the final decision on capability of owning a firearm?