We had better hope that expressions of anger, disappointment, frustration don't lead to mental health diagnoses.surprise_i'm_armed wrote:The murderer had in his possession 2 Glocks. At least one of them was a Glock 19.
He had purchased the most recent one about June 2015, and had passed the background check.
So, even though he was a problem child to his former employer (the TV station), apparently
nothing in his behavior had ever triggered a mental health report that would have deemed
him an "ineligible person". Sad.
SIA
A psychiatrist I represented years ago explained it as a continuum, from "normal" towards "personality defects" and on down in severity to eventually mental illness. Psychiatrists disagree about where those markers are.
Felons cannot possess firearms. That comes after slavish attention to the criminal's due process rights, or at least a nod in that direction. With mental health, none of that is usually present. A psychiatrist says you are one, and boom! No more guns!
The Brady Bunch wants to see this as it will then be possible to have a phalanx of psychiatrists label everyone who owns a gun as crazy!