Mentally Stable?
Talked to a pediatrician lately?
Nurses?
Various doctors?
There's a line being foisted on the medical community that "guns are dangerous" and that an "obsession" with guns is "unhealthy."
Some doctors even have gun-access questions on their new patient questionnaires.
It's been discussed on THR a number of times.
Proposing that prospective gun owners submit to some sort of mental evaluation is a losing strategy when the default medical position is that wanting a gun means there's something wrong with you. Guns are dangerous, therefore the people who want them or have them are dangerous.
Look, a number of you keep forgetting something very, very important: gun registration, licensed gun dealers, background checks,
all of that didn't exist before 1968. I grew up in that environment. Crime of all kinds was lower then.
There was no problem to solve.
Legislators solved it anyway.
That's horribly broken.
The idea that a nation just
assumes that, because lawmakers create a piece of legislation, there must be a good reason for it . . . that's very wrong-headed.
I would recommend that we stop looking for ways to justify the indignity and injustice that has been done to us and start pushing back hard.
Do you get that?
There.
Was.
No.
Problem.
And yet . . .
They passed a law to fix it.
Those of you who feel that good people need to be controlled and that everyone needs a background check ('cuz you never know who might be a criminal) and that we don't have rights until everyone agrees on them (okay, that's just weird) need to step back and contemplate that.
They fixed what wasn't broke. And they've been "fixing" it ever since.
Don't assume that because they keep "fixing" that there's anything broken.
It wasn't then, it isn't now.