What worries me is who the person is that actually decides who is not mentally incapacitated and or who is actually ill. The way it is now is wholly subjective based on the beliefs of the one determining the diagnosis. Moreover, the way it seems to be going, as in further down the proverbial slippery slope of subjectivity, I find the devil in the details to be extremely alarming to the point of being able sidestep around the protections of the law abiding citizens in America.
For instance, in my lifetime parents have had to deal with the likes of Dr. Chester M. Pierce, Psychiatrist, whom stated the following while speaking at the Childhood International Education Seminar (1973), and did so with a patently personal conviction, "Every child in America entering school at the age of five is insane because he comes to school with certain allegiances to our founding fathers, toward our elected officials, toward his parents, toward a belief in a supernatural being, and toward the sovereignty of this nation as a separate entity. It’s up to you as teachers to make all these sick children well – by creating the international child of the future."
(Do you believe this guy, or those like him, would allow you and or your children to own guns?)
Personally speaking, I neither want this "doctor," nor others like him or with a similar worldview to determine which American is "mentally able" to own a gun and which is not so able. I believe that what is in place at the present time is sufficient as most of the recent "mentally ill" criminals shooting people were already known to be so far gone that they should not have had a gun in the first place.
Besides, when rendered down to the most basic essentials, the higher death tolls are not caused by mentally ill shooters, but instead, these high numbers could be blamed upon those certain politicians and anti-gunners that have created gun free zones, which instead of being places of safety or refuge due to the lack of legal guns, they turn out to be the primary killing fields of proven criminals.
While I dearly love and support what the NRA does on the whole, I see the NRA's stance on the "mental issue" concerning gun control being so easily swayed by the anti's to the point that they could ultimately strip every American of their gun rights simply by getting "their people" appointed in the right places. As for me, I have to draw the line and state, "No thank you on this one."
