Should people with mental problems be allowed to own guns?
 

I saw CNN or something news channel the other day talking about the Virginia gunman and they were saying the law does not allow you to lock up people with mental problems unless they are a danger to themselves or others. The inferance being that this is a weakness in the law and if you could detain anyone with mental problems things like this wouldn't have happenned!

I was thinking maybe it would be a better idea to just not let people with mental health problems have access to firearms?

NO. :thumbsup

it's not a good idea to allow people have a mental problem to own a gun..coz you'll never know when they are just fine or not..like what happen to virginia tech right..

No, of course not.

It should be compulsory for all citizens to pack two weapons and four grenades - and let them sort the crap out - it's their "right" :pimp

Just pulling the trigger on another person is a sick act, so basically no one should be allowed in the first place.

Hell no..they might snap and blow away more innocent people

No guns to civilians,only to police and army

I figured you keep a couple guns strapped to your wheel chair to protect your $5000.00 watch from bouncers that drag you out of your chair and have you arrested......

Germany in the 1930's.... nice call. :thumbsup

i believe there is a question asking if you have ever been diagnosed with a mental illness on the form that you fill out when you get your background check when legaly buying a firearm.

I may be wrong, cant remember if i've ever bought a firearm or not. I may or may not have any guns.

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Ya pretty sure its on the form. Let me see if I can find one.

Here it is in the law itself.

http://www.atf.treas.gov/pub/fire-ex...b/guncoact.pdf

And most of the civilized countries year 2000.

Interesing...

See above....

I don't think anyone should own a gun so....

Seriously whats so fucking great about guns anyways huh? You can buy one for fucking $200, wooooooopeeeetee doooo. Every one can get one, its not that fucking great..

of course the mentally ill should be allowed to own guns - how the hell do you think they are supposed to defend themselves against all the people they think are out to get them? i suppose we could license them imaginary guns and teach them how to make bang bang sounds but that would be mocking them and probably against some human rights law.

Hell.. Stupid Sticky is in here as well clogging up threads with his ignorant braincell - and hoping for some biz from his whoring.

So u keep guns in case u get arrested or attacked by ur own military?

Fuck off and die you old puckered twat..:thumbsup

Hell no...if u have mental problems..u shouldnt be allowed guns...are u smoking crack

I keep guns in order to dispatch any force attempting to do harm to me, my family members, my friends, or my neighbors without just cause and in an unlawful manner.

Yea another of your "valuable contributions" to threads idiot???

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when one guy has one and nobody else does, things can get very bad. Criminals will carry one, well just because they are criminals and thats what they do. Keep in mind, it wasnt illegal for the Cho guy to own a gun. It was illegal for him to kill 32 people.

Now consider this. If the law abiding people were all carrying guns, would Cho have been able to kill 32 people? I dont think so.

Making guns illegal will NOT solve anything. There are already way too many available. Making them illegal will not stop gun crime. Its already illegal to kill people, and that didnt stop murders from happening. Its illegal to drink and drive, doesnt seem to have stopped it. Its illegal to exceed the speed limit, but show me someone here who says they have never been speeding, and I'll point out a liar to you.

I'm not saying that making sure everyone is armed would be a better situation, but making guns illegal isnt going to stop things at all. But perhaps if the criminals knew that everyone else was armed, they may reconsider trying to hurt people when they know they would probably get themselves killed before they could finish thier act of crime.

Dont you have an bird aviary or something to tend to? Or do the servants do that?? Maybe ride a horse around your huge tropical estate?

Characteristic of a fool = assumption

Dreaming again idiot??? Ah... or is it you are "jealous of my way of life"?? :1orglaugh

:1orglaugh Move out of the ghetto gringo .

Yes cause its so hard to move to Costa Rica... lol Puckered old twat...

Yes the cul-de-sac where we live is ever so rough.. lmao I mowed my 1/2 acre of ghetto grass tonight... lol

No problem for you Sticky - just get on your hotel uniform (you look kinda pretty in it!) and I'll find you a job carrying luggage - you'll love it! But.. that can only be for 90 days - then you get evicted back to lala land - nothing lasts forever eh? :1orglaugh

PS And make you your criminal record is clean :thumbsup

Of course not but 'mental problems' is very vague.

Should very angry people be allowed to own guns?

How about people who haven't been laid in 3 years?

Women on PMS? Should we take their guns away once a month? (Actually that's probably a good idea....)

Lol I got my wife all set with permanent residence for the United States, I just betcha I would be able to live in Costa. I have more than a few friends down there, and I know how it works. So again you make fun of my appearance, yet no one has ever seen a picture of your old puckered wrinkled mug yet.. Interesting.

If you have been diagnosed with a mental illness then you should not be able to own a gun. It is not safe for that person or people around them.

absolutely not!!

Definitely not!!!

Hmmm so if that is written in there (the ATF law...re patients commited...), why are mentally ill folks still allowed to legally obtain guns, such as the most recent VT shootings?

I suppose all they have to do is lie and check off no and the SHAZAM, "here's your gun sir".

No.

However the Constitution doesn't make the distinction.

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Seriously dude, you need to take one of these and fast:thumbsup







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does that happen alot? :1orglaugh

you put GW Bush in charge of all your missiles and you worry about couple of nuts with handguns?

Do you really think that? With America's current apathy to anything political that we would rise up against an unjust gov't?

There are a lot of people out there with mental problems. Depression is a mental illness not a defect. If that is the case, we would go back to the comment about 1930 Germany with no one owning guns. Most everyone has experience depression at some point in their life!

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No, look at people like Dirty Danza, totally unstable. That guy could snap any day and he has a house full of guns. Hes the type of person that walks on the street with loaded guns, claiming its for self protection but in the meantime he's really hoping someone starts a fight with him. People like him are looking for a reason to use their gun.

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if that was the case you would have already lost about 6 years of fight :winkwink:

Mrpheer, i agree with you that making guns illegal now in the US isnt gonna work. But that "if guns were illegal only the bad guys would have them" arugment that ALL gun owners come up with, why doesnt that seem to be a problem in about ANY other 1st world country?

Yes, we have criminals and some have guns. Just like every other country but the chances of ever seeing a gun here in Holland are very, very small. In other words its waaaaay less dangerous that a few criminals have guns than that every other citizin would have guns to so called protect their families. Know what i mean?

Holland is quite safe eventhough there are guns here and here. Holland wouldnt be nearly as safe as besides those few criminals with guns the rest of people here would own "legal" guns.

And thats the same story with every other country out there. Cept for America. ONLY Americans keep claiming its safer with guns and in the meantime they have a huge fucking gun problem. Only America...

It's not funny to read the everlasting dispute between Americans and Europeans when it comes to gun control.

I've lived in both places for a long time and try to understand both points of view. My opinion, as a European-American, is ambivalent.

First of, not every country in Europe is strict on gun control. Spain isn't, Belgium isn't , and in beautiful Switzerland it's mandatory for adult males who served to have an assault rifle at home. Yet, homicide rates are low in these countries.

Devastating and twisted things like in Virginia happen in countries with strict gun control too, may be not as frequently. I remember similar incidents in Germany, where you have to jump through hoops to own a gun legally.

http://archives.cnn.com/2002/WORLD/e...many.shooting/

The reason why homicide rates are high in the US is not solely due of the easy accessibility of guns. There are social issues as well.

The 2nd Amendment, on which gun ownership in the US is based has advantages too. It was not designed that Americans can walk the streets with a six gun in their belt like John Wayne, it was written as a counter balance to the government, means, in case the government goes wacko, Americans have the right to counteract. The idea might be delusional in these days, but may be not.

I have a 87 year old great aunt who grew up in Nazi Germany. We once asked her how the German people could ever allow a fruitcake like Hitler to take over, especially when only 25-30% of the German population supported the Nazis?

Her answer was: "What could the rest of us have done? Attack Hitler's paratroopers with our bare hands?"

I'n this case armed citizens might have been an advantage. Considered that WWII costed almost 60 million lives the price for armed citizens seems low. I am not saying that WW II wouldn't have happened if the Germans were armed, but it would have been more difficult for the Nazis to drag innocent people out of their homes and ship them off to Auschwitz.