09-22-2018, 11:57 AM
(09-22-2018, 06:19 AM)Duchess Wrote: Another legally purchased gun. Jesus Christ.
Another shooter who had been diagnosed as mentally ill legally purchasing a gun too.
I understand when gun advocates claim that the real effort to improve public safety should be aimed at keeping guns from 'crazies'.
What they don't seem to realize, however, is that these three things have to happen to keep a mentally ill person from waltzing into a gun store and buying whatever they want: (1) committed to a mental health facility against their will, (2) ruled mentally ill and a danger to self/others by a judge, (3) reported as legally mentally ill to NICS/Feds.
That criteria defined by current gun safety/control law just isn't gonna keep guns out of the hands of most mentally ill people.