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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.  |
good post but wasted on people like rochard who think it's perfectly OK for the government to DEFINE mental health and make laws based on what some shrinks think is mentally healthy or not.
psychology isn't perfect science. fuck, after years and years of giving teens paxil, psychology finally admitted paxil is bad UNSAFE for teens. recent studies show 2 out of 3 psych research gets it wrong. but hey, let's let those guys dictate law.
dafuk.