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Originally Posted by L-Pink
Rochard:
You just don't see the big picture of this lame "mental" argument. When a person is judged to be incompetent, a guardian is appointed to handle the person's property and personal affairs because you have just been declared MENTALLY INCOMPETENT. You will probably also have your employer notified because after all you are mentally incompetent right?
Civil Law also requires a person to be legally competent in order to enter a contract, sign a will, or make some other type of binding legal commitment. Now you can't even legally get a car loan!
So yea, if a person leading a normal life is suddenly declared mentally incompetent as a result of simply trying to purchase a firearm a legal nightmare will start.
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And thus is the problem - we have mentally ill people who aren't being judged incompetent.
My friend John is obviously mentally handicapped. He operates on the level of a fifteen year old or sixteen year old. He's disabled from both the US Army and US Post Office, and "barely" exists as a private citizen. He's fifty years old, owns a house (with his mother's help because the banks won't allow him to have a debit card no less a home loan), yet his power and his phone gets turned off every month because he remember to pay the bills. He's been rear ended four times in two years but they are "not his fault" even though he drives a big truck, drives way too fast, stops short, and locks up his breaks more in fifteen minutes than I do in ten years.
He's armed with a AR15. He also worked at the post office, and hasn't gotten laid in twenty years. He's primed to go off.