[TomGuy]

Immediately comes to mind this lyric:

Mama, he’s crazy, crazy over me
And in my life is where he says
He always wants to be

[fatnotlazy]

This will piz off the anti-gun nuts

On the one hand, no one wants the homicidal types to have firearms, but on the other hand, a blanket prohibition is wrong. Before long we will have government entities declaring Christians, Tea Party members and other “enemies of the state” as mentally ill and ineligible to own firearms. This was a major overstep of authority and the Sixth Circuit ruling is correct.

[wolfman23601]

Good decision.

[TexasFreeper2009]

um... I am all for the 2nd amendment.. but even I have no issue with restricting access to guns to certified lunatics.

Of course ... then that brings up the issue of who gets to decide who’s a lunatic...

hm.. on second thought, maybe this is a good decision. I could just see some left wing nut jobs saying anyone who believes in God is a nut.

[Himyar]

Just because you are crazy doesn’t mean you are dangerous.

[faithhopecharity]

...”the right of the People to keep and bear arms shall not be Infringed ...” ( anyone who trusts corruptoid-megalomanial politicians and psychiatrists with their life and liberty is certifiably nutz!)

[spel_grammer_an_punct_polise]

Huh? Is that why I keep getting denied the opportunity to purchase a weapon?

[Buckeye McFrog]

1986 was a long time ago.
If modern psychiatry can’t get him past his issues over a divorce from that far back they may as well close-up shop.

[Still Thinking]

Judge Danny Boggs wrote the majority opinion for the panel: “The government’s interest in keeping firearms out of the hands of the mentally ill is not sufficiently related to depriving the mentally healthy, who had a distant episode of commitment, of their constitutional rights.”

Agreed. Apparently the mental health professionals felt he wasn't a danger to the public because they let him out on the streets again. I can see not letting someone buy WHILE they're under an adjudication of mental illness, but not far into the future.