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In reply to the discussion: I have a brother with schizophrenia and I am sick of the bigotry against the mentally ill [View all]thucythucy
(8,045 posts)I might need a gun to protect myself, to arguing that we're all rational by default and therefore should all have the right to stockpile weapons and ammo endlessly, regardless of mental health history or issues?
Here's an OP that might interest you on mental illness. Oddly enough the poster argues for "better gun control." She therefore obviously isn't as interested in the rights of people with mental disabilities as you are, right?
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10024998025
"Evaluated" in quotes. Because, you know, "mental illness" evidently isn't an "issue" that should deny anyone their "rights" to lethal weaponry.
As for "due process"--absolutely, access to legal counsel, the right to appeal, whatever. The process should be as fair as possible, allowing equal protection as guaranteed by the 14th amendment. Then again, if I flunk my driver's test, it's hardly unjust for me to be denied a driver's license. Or is it?
As for "simple" answers being wrong, what could be more simple than allowing most anyone to buy a gun, and let the possible consequences be damned? Especially since, as you say, most of the gun violence occurs in neighborhoods you're able to avoid, enabling you to sleep so well at night. How fortunate for you that the hundreds of millions of guns sloshing around our society are of so little consequence for your own safety.
For the rest of us, not so much.