You brought it up. You blamed the Democrats for blocking health care coverage.
You're a liar, as al lcan see. I did not bring up HEALTH CARE COVERAGE. I brought up the fact that Liberals / Democrats TALK about authoring legislation designed to address mentally ill people from owning guns yet never doing anything about it / never doing it....and, STILL - as people can see - you are contiuing to attempt these BS....FAILED....distractions.
So why DO Democrats fail to follow-through with their repeated promises of authoring legislation to address mental illness and gun ownership:?
You brought up addressing mental health. You expect people to treat themselves?
So let's get into specifics, instead of generalizing the term 'mental health', and use this specific case. How would your design of healthcare have caught this guy before he legally purchased a fire arm and killed people?
> So let's get into specifics, instead of generalizing the term 'mental health', and use this specific case. How would your design of healthcare have caught this guy before he legally purchased a fire arm and killed people?
It's a great question, and I would like to chime in on the mental health issue, speaking as a huge 2A proponent myself with some possibly relevant experience...
I have helped out a mentally-disabled person for over two decades. He's basically retarded and was a complete stranger to me when a preacher hooked me up with an opportunity for karma.
Social Security admin has declared him incompetent to manage the money they send him, and rightly so. But he does not see mental health professionals, nor does he need to. He is pretty much self-sufficient, with some exceptions.
He certainly should not have a gun. He gets really crazy ideas occasionally, like people tapping his phone, but he is not really mentally ill, IMO, he is simply very dumb and gullible to what other people tell him.
He could walk into a gun store today, and if he had the money, he could legally walk out with a gun, as he has no criminal record nor documented treatment by mental health professionals. Really, the only barriers to him doing so is that he has no desire to, he is illiterate and cannot possibly complete the background check form without assistance, and hopefully the gun shop owner would have some integrity and not be willing to sell to him, noting he is not all right in the head, but you can't expect gun shop owners to assess a person's mental health or other cognitive ability.
I don't know what the solution is either. It has previously been proposed that people who receive social security benefits, but have been deemed incompetent to handle their own finances should be prohibited from possessing a firearm.
Joe Biden's gun control proposals could mean reviving the Obama gun ban that barred certain Social Security recipients from buying firearms.
www.breitbart.com
I am not really in favor of that, as not being able to handle one's finances does not necessarily mean one cannot responsibly handle a firearm, and some people in this category probably have a real need to be able to defend themselves from bad people in the communities they live in, or bad people they have personally known.
It's complicated, and I don't know the solution. For sure, though, if the government is going to infringe upon someone's fundamental constitutionally-guaranteed right to keep and bear arms, the government needs to show probably cause, followed by adjudicating proving such infringement is reasonable and necessary.
Regards,
Jim