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Anyway ... this is all by the by really, nutters shouldn't have access to guns.
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Exactly. Those people found NGBRI should be in any database accessable to law enforcment (and in some states I know they are), and to the gun dealers when selling a weapon.
Morgan's right ... the do-gooders are trying to "protect the rights" of the mentally ill with knee-jerk opposition to anything that treats them differently. This started for good reason, as a reaction to the horrible abuses many were subjected to well into the 1970s.
Those same do-gooders will tell you that the reason that 60-80% of the homeless are mentally ill is that the evil conservatives cut funding for programs to aid them.
There is a certain amount of truth to that, but it is just as true that those same do-gooders went way too far in giving the mentally ill options to resist/refuse treatment - in effect, giving them rights they are unable to properly exercise.