OK, that is just stupid.
Is it? Suppose a doctor had asked Timothy McVeigh or Terry Nichols that question.
Remind me again what guns they used when they committed their crimes? I swear... Some of you are complete idiots.
Well...it would have been a little silly for a doctor to ask, "Say..ya got a truck load of fertilizer parked around your place somewhere?" Wouldn't it?
But...if a doctor had been concerned about their mental state, and been allowed to report that this disturbed person had access to guns, and had law enforcement had the power to intervene, don't you think it's possible they might have been prevented from blowing up the Murrah building?
The question is: If it had been possible, would it have been a fair trade off of rights for safety? Ultimately, that's the question, isn't it?