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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsSo how do goppers propose to evaluate the mental health of gun owners/buyers?
eShirl
(18,936 posts)by doing nothing
Botany
(72,912 posts)Gun Buyer) I would like to buy an AR-15.
Gun Seller) Sorry you failed the mental health test because if you want to buy, own, or shoot
an assault rifle then you do not have the mental soundness to own said weapon.
Hugin
(35,153 posts)Good plan. Kurt Vonnegut also advocated its use for holding public office.
WhiskeyGrinder
(24,248 posts)Midnight Writer
(23,320 posts)Congratulations, Citizen! You are not only stable, you may even be a genius!
SoonerPride
(12,286 posts)DBoon
(23,320 posts)Any test they proposed will be designed to keep guns out of the hands of people they don't like
Chainfire
(17,757 posts)Many will contend, that because of 2A, that no one should ever be denied the right to purchase, carry or own a firearm, and that any attempt to regulate firearms is illegal and that all current regulations are in violation of the Constitution. When pressed hard, they will also claim that if the government has nuclear weapons then nothing should prevent private citizens from the same. This is not a theory, I have had the actual conversations!
allegorical oracle
(3,754 posts)durablend
(8,074 posts)Lulu Latech
(29,101 posts)You can easily google how to pass a psych eval or suicide assessment. No doubt we need better mental health care including better wages for those who do this work in the community but to expect this to be the only answer is just idiotic.
gulliver
(13,335 posts)moondust
(20,631 posts)LeftInTX
(31,793 posts)They must be declared "legally sane"
In other words, it's BS It will never, ever happen.
There are already laws in place for those who have a "legal history" of mental health issues. And by legal it means: "Mentally incompetent", not someone who has mental health issues.
newdayneeded
(2,493 posts)Just more stall tactics to run the clock out.
LudwigPastorius
(11,405 posts)including the Constitution?
No?
Then I'm afraid I can't sell you a gun."
Sogo
(5,921 posts)some kind of vaginal/uterine examination....