Reply #43: Due process is needed to protect the innocent.

[ManiacJoe]

Why is it a good idea -- and yes, everybody here IS saying it is a good idea -- for a person with a severe delusional mental illness to be ineligible to possess a firearm once they have been committed for care, but for them to be permitted to possess all the firearms they can tote right up until that moment? Did they become a danger to themself or other persons only at the moment a doctor signed that paper? I don't think so. I can only infer that others do. ?

There may be a better way than waiting for the doctor's signature, but what is that method and how do you translate that into law?

One of the unfortunate facts is that many times friends and relatives of the sick know that the sick person is a hazard to society but make no effort to get the guns removed from that person.