I will just be analyzing the Bill, pointing out that it's a poorly veiled fraud on the public, and discussing alternatives available under current law. I'm not a mental health professional, so I'm not qualified to offer treatment suggestions. Mental health professionals have long proclaimed that the vast majority of people suffering from a mental illness do not post a danger to themselves or others. Those that do pose a danger are more likely to harm themselves rather than other people.mojo84 wrote: ↑Thu Nov 15, 2018 10:25 pmI'm very interested in hearing your thoughts on this and what may be a good alternative to address the need to protect the general public from a crazy person that owns and possesses guns. We seem to expect family members to do something but do not provide sufficient legal means to do something.Charles L. Cotton wrote: ↑Thu Nov 15, 2018 9:11 pm I'm putting together a TFC Podcast on this Bill. It is a very dangerous bill that must not pass.
Chas.
I'm not sure locking people up without due process is the answer? I'm honestly interested in this as I have close personal experience with a family member that was diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia and had several guns he would not surrender to me or other family members. Even though he was diagnosed PS, they said he wasn't eligible to be involuntarily committed because he promised to take his meds. He is now dead from an overdose of the prescribed meds.
I hope you will offer some insight into a solution and not just opinion dismissing the issue based on gun rights issues since innocent lives could be at stake.
It is indisputable that, if any person is a danger to themselves or others, then removing only one of many tools that can be used to injure or kill others will not protect innocent lives. The only way to truly protect people is to remove the dangerous person from society. When and how to do that has been and will always be a very troublesome issue. Stalin, Hitler and countless other despots have used mental illness as an excuse to imprison and murder millions of political opponents. Protecting the innocent also involves protecting the falsely accused.
Chas.