Are all the people who think they should be able to own guns mentally stable?

Question

Yes? Well then they should have no objection if we insist that in addition to criminal background checks, all gun purchasers and owners are also regularly assessed for mental instability and also to provide justification for wanting to own a weapon.

That'll leave the guns in the posession of the "good " gun owners that the rest of society can trust not to go misusing the guns, while the guns are taken away from dangerous individuals.

Or do the gun advocates have a better idea. (Giving everyone guns is not a better idea)

aha good points being raised so far!
But as for the argument that its to keep government in check.. umm I don't think its working!!! The politicians do what their financial backers dictate. As for increasing the availability of guns.. umm thats the problem in Iraq, Afghanistan and the tribal areas of Pakistan! Theres no proper rule of civic law.. its gun anarchy!

Paying for the mental assessments? Well it should be down to the gun purchasers. Well if they can afford to spend US$500 or more on a weapon I think they can afford to pay for assessment and monitoring. Or maybe a bullet tax to help pay for it!

Answer 1

Providing justification for owning a weapon isn't necessary considering it has been deemed a constitutional right.

The mental instability is a good idea in general but it subjects the majority of the population to unnecessary testing because when the majority of legal gun owners become mentally unhinged it is 85% due to crimes of passion or rage which are usually spur of the moment.

Answer 2

Heck, at least someone is offering an idea of gun control.

I'd have no problem submitting myself to a regular mental checkup, but that raises three questions for me.

1. Who is going to pay for all this testing?
2. Where will this money go?
3. Who's to say the criminals already in possession of firearms will be willing to submit to the tests?

Again, the point has been missed.
Criminals will not give up their guns.
Criminals will find other ways of getting guns - stealing perhaps?
Not everybody who is mentally unstable will be caught by these mental exams.
Not everybody who is mentally unstable is a criminal, or killer.

There's just no way to take all the guns out of violent criminals hands, even if there's a required mental exam. It's a sad truth.

Answer 3

I think that it is important for us to remember that a gun can fall into anyone's hands. Not everyone owns guns, but may know someone with a gun. I think that we have learned form the past that children and teens can get ahold of these things no matter what. It just depends on the owner. I see how you think that giving people background checks and criminal investigations that this might solve our problem. Nope sorry. Not gonna happen that way. Try to remember that guns have been around for years, and our ansetors have used them for many purposes. TOday we live in a very catoic world. Risks are taken. If we try to outlaw guns, they will be imported. They will still be used. Many people own guns today, and if we outlaw them, aer we suppose to go around and confisgate them? I mean think about reality here. SO lets say we do get rid of guns...People will find other ways to kill. It is very contversial....Soem people say outlaw, and others do not. I say do not.....Thanks

Answer 4

Yeah, and the criminals will submit to a mental assessment. Grow up. Criminals commit crimes, not guns. If a criminal wants a gun, the criminal will have one. Bombs are illegal and if a criminal wants one, he'll have one. You cannot legislate personal behavior, nor can you control crime by putting controls on law abiding citizens.

The best way to control crime is to stop the criminals from becoming worse criminals by stopping their behavior young. Increasingly harsh penalties for criminal behaviors and making the punishments very public would have an impact on crime. Start the process early in a potential criminal’s life. If you start with a child who mistreats animals, you stop an abusive adult. If you stop a child who sets fires, you stop a future arsonist. If you stop a child who steals candy from stores, you stop a future robbery.

Don’t coddle these kids. Give them therapy, but also give them punishment. Penalties should include public spankings for fighting in schools, then advance to public floggings if the fighting continues. Non violent offences should be punished with public humiliation. Acts of theft, for example, could be punished by having to carry a sign and advancing to public stocks or outside jails if the behavior continues or worsens.

Make punishment, not reform, the first deterrent of crime. Remove the years of appeals for crimes that result in death penalties.

When going to jail is better than living at home, then jail is not a deterrent to crime.

Change how we look at criminals. The criminal is responsible for their actions, not society or their parents.

Answer 5

Yes. The ones that are not stable believe no one should own guns. They also believe in Santa and the Easter Bunny. I believe that there should be a panel of people that determine who should drive vehicles and have periodic check ups and drugs tests on demand to make sure they are ok to drive. That way only good drivers will be on the road.

By the by old Chap, who is appointing the people to do all these checks?. Who does the mental backgrounds checks on the people who will determine our background checks?

Don't have to dig very deep to find the problems ,eh? And who is the "WE" you are referring to as doing these additional background checks that the rest of us should not object to?

Do you know what the Constitution is dmbas?

Answer 6

I think this is a good idea, to have some control or process to go through inorder to keep or get a gun. The problem comes when you decide who evaluates the individuals and who says what is mental stability. It is so messy, there is no happy ending to this problem.

Answer 7

People who want to kill will kill.. So if you walk into a store and buy ammonia and fertilizer, should you be subject to these tests?.. because these can be used to make bombs, we need to either enforce less education in chemistry??

How about abortion clinics?.. They kill a lot of people too.. Lets have all the people who use them as a form of birth control under go intense therapy?.. Or better yet, lets just band sex all together?..

Oh I am sorry am I infringing on your rights there??

Answer 8

the mentals if planning to do ths will find a way what ever , its important the american people keep the right to bare arms , dictators that disarmed there nations (hitler, pol pott ,stalin ) this incident either black op or nut job will be used to attack the right to bare arms , you and the other hundreds of people asking the same question are the reaction and soon enough the government will probably come aong with the solution .

Answer 9

Did you know there was another earthquake in Japan the other day?, and the country is more susceptible to earthquakes than any other place because it sits on four tectonic plates? There are other things going on in the world.

Answer 10

clowns should not have guns especially juggalos they commit enough crimes and stuff without guns