Mental disorders (click here) are common in the United States and internationally. An
estimated 26.2 percent of Americans ages 18 and older — about one in
four adults — suffer from a diagnosable mental disorder in a given year.
26.2 percent of 300 million people is 78,600,000.
The USA needs gun control.
End of discussion.
A data base that size would be cost prohibitive and victimizing. It would provide hideous information to companies and otherwise that would destroy lives.
The cost would be astronomical to build and maintain.
The 'idea' there needs to be a mental health data base to support a gun economy doesn't justify itself.
Nearly every American at some point in time, be it divorce or death of a spouse or child, requires help. The data base is out of the question.
Criminal background checks are the only ones possible because the infrastructure is already there; therefore; a background check is incomplete and will continue to be so. The USA needs gun control.
The longer this stupidity about gun control goes on the more people will die. I have no patience or appetite for it, it is all non-production chatter to sell more guns while there is no gun control.
Immediately going forward, the federal government and/or state governments can demand a gun purchaser (across the board) present a mental health certification to become the owner of that particular gun and/or ammunition. There are lots of pitfalls to that as well, including the indulgences of family, friends and lovers to give or sell guns to those that otherwise can't obtain them. The idea family should be excluded from background checks when passing on weapons will open exploitation of gun violence by over 33%. Everyone selling a gun has to ask for a background check before selling or transferring a weapon to anyone else. Lending a weapon to someone has to assume the responsibility for it's misuse and therefore the one lending the weapon would have to be indicted as well.
The cost for the Mental Health Certification has to be born by the gun purchaser.
The reason for this is the right to own a gun for self-protection. That right does not provide for the right to end the life of others in random violence, domestic violence or self-violence of suicide.
The MOST EFFECTIVE method of handling this is to require the mental health certificate at the time of purchase of ammunition. Can't kill if ya ain't got the bullets.
None of this will ever make it through the US House, as if anything actually does, but, it might assist some States with high population cities. It could be enacted at the level of the local level, namely the county or city. As long as it provides the ability of an 'able' American to responsibly purchase a gun and ammunition it should be constitutional. The unconstitutionality enters when there is complete obstruction for 'able' Americans to purchase. The 'able' status will be challenged as to the definition in courts; count on that. So, the definition has to be precise, but, not victimizing. A 'profile' of the 'able' American is important to maintain integrity of the law. The profile has to allow for various educational levels. There is no IDEAL 'able' citizen, so much as the exclusion from the profile of the 'disabled' American from obtaining ammunition and guns.
Best way to write a profile for the 'able' American is to start with all that comprises personality and then eliminate from there. Then a viable description would be constitutional. Psychiatrists and not psychologists are best to accomplish the profile. Don't use the CIA or FBI, it will fail. Go to prominent universities known for their mental health programs to develop the 'profile' of the 'able' American.
The profile will then provide for a viable and constitutionally worthy law.
26.2 percent of 300 million people is 78,600,000.
The USA needs gun control.
End of discussion.
A data base that size would be cost prohibitive and victimizing. It would provide hideous information to companies and otherwise that would destroy lives.
The cost would be astronomical to build and maintain.
The 'idea' there needs to be a mental health data base to support a gun economy doesn't justify itself.
Nearly every American at some point in time, be it divorce or death of a spouse or child, requires help. The data base is out of the question.
Criminal background checks are the only ones possible because the infrastructure is already there; therefore; a background check is incomplete and will continue to be so. The USA needs gun control.
The longer this stupidity about gun control goes on the more people will die. I have no patience or appetite for it, it is all non-production chatter to sell more guns while there is no gun control.
Immediately going forward, the federal government and/or state governments can demand a gun purchaser (across the board) present a mental health certification to become the owner of that particular gun and/or ammunition. There are lots of pitfalls to that as well, including the indulgences of family, friends and lovers to give or sell guns to those that otherwise can't obtain them. The idea family should be excluded from background checks when passing on weapons will open exploitation of gun violence by over 33%. Everyone selling a gun has to ask for a background check before selling or transferring a weapon to anyone else. Lending a weapon to someone has to assume the responsibility for it's misuse and therefore the one lending the weapon would have to be indicted as well.
The cost for the Mental Health Certification has to be born by the gun purchaser.
The reason for this is the right to own a gun for self-protection. That right does not provide for the right to end the life of others in random violence, domestic violence or self-violence of suicide.
The MOST EFFECTIVE method of handling this is to require the mental health certificate at the time of purchase of ammunition. Can't kill if ya ain't got the bullets.
None of this will ever make it through the US House, as if anything actually does, but, it might assist some States with high population cities. It could be enacted at the level of the local level, namely the county or city. As long as it provides the ability of an 'able' American to responsibly purchase a gun and ammunition it should be constitutional. The unconstitutionality enters when there is complete obstruction for 'able' Americans to purchase. The 'able' status will be challenged as to the definition in courts; count on that. So, the definition has to be precise, but, not victimizing. A 'profile' of the 'able' American is important to maintain integrity of the law. The profile has to allow for various educational levels. There is no IDEAL 'able' citizen, so much as the exclusion from the profile of the 'disabled' American from obtaining ammunition and guns.
Best way to write a profile for the 'able' American is to start with all that comprises personality and then eliminate from there. Then a viable description would be constitutional. Psychiatrists and not psychologists are best to accomplish the profile. Don't use the CIA or FBI, it will fail. Go to prominent universities known for their mental health programs to develop the 'profile' of the 'able' American.
The profile will then provide for a viable and constitutionally worthy law.
