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Originally Posted by Joshua G
sorry pal. thats not going to solve anything. not only does it infringe on the 90%+ of mentally ill who are harmless (except to themselves), there is no way to predict murder.
otherwise they woulda flagged the newtown killer, the colorado theatre shooter, both of whom saw mental health professionals & experts the did not know they had time bombs in front of them.
good luck even defining what is mentally ill for gun ownership purpose. a compulsive shopper can be construed as mentally ill, or merely obese people who cant control their impulses. maybe liberals control the decision & conservative thinking is mentally ill so no guns.
& PS, people with no mental illness when young, may become mental ill due to war, trauma, job loss, divorce, drug OD. so a person may already own guns & eventually turn into a murderer. Vester flanagan was a normal guy at 21, a murderer at 41.
forget it bro.  |
I completely disagree with you. In all of the cases you mentioned if there was a law that removed firearms from them, these shootings might have been prevented.
There are walking time bombs all around us and we don't do anything about it. My friend John is a great example. Divorced twice, disabled now for thirty years, hasn't gotten laid in twenty years, has no contact with his kids, and he is on so much medication it makes my head spin..... He's armed with an AR15. This man is depressed sixteen ways from next Tuesday, and yet there is no law preventing him from owning a firearm.
This is simple common sense. Take firearms out of the question: If a commercial pilot is on medication, depressed, and suicidal, should they be allowed to fly 200 people across country five times a week? Of course not.
That kid who killed dozens of school children... Imagine if there was a law that said "Your son is depressed, and as long as he lives in that house you are not allowed to own firearms". That shooting would have never had happened.