@hawkeye10,
Quote:i generally agree with this approach, but we must be mindful that in the advance of victim culture as well as with our broken medical system already over 25% of the population is deemed to be mentally ill, a number that will only go up. We also all have fresh in our minds how the soviets started the practice of slapping the label of mental illness on anyone they wanted to deprive of individual rights.
I agree completely, Hawk. I certainly am not advocating getting into a situation where people are in danger of being institutionalized or socially ostracized because of minor idiosyncrasies, but there is behavior that indicates a lack of self-control or immaturity that rightfully ought to be used to disqualify people exhibiting that behavior from being able to purchase or own a gun.
This is not an easy area with which to deal...and lots of thought has to be put into it...but I would council that we should not ignore this area.
I am astonished that any report shows 25% of the population as being mentally ill.
