And what qualifies as "mental illness" such that 30 thousand people had cops show up at their doors demanding their guns? They obtained a Rx for anti-depressants? That sounds like a lot of civil committment orders if that's what they base it on. Or are Doctors turning in their patients? Is this why doctors in lib states are asking patients if they own guns?
A lot are vets that unwisely asked the VA for help with PTSD.
“”Harris said 90 percent of the people who had guns seized were barred from owning weapons because of mental illness”
And what qualifies as “mental illness” such that 30 thousand people had cops show up at their doors demanding their guns? They obtained a Rx for anti-depressants? That sounds like a lot of civil committment orders if that’s what they base it on. Or are Doctors turning in their patients? Is this why doctors in lib states are asking patients if they own guns?”
I Lost a lot of respect for my doctor and doctors in general the first time they asked that question.
Frankly its none of their business what I own. A gun infinitely less an active health threat then a car. And probably a tiny fraction of the threat of many of the other things in your home.
Simply put unless you got shot a its none of a doctors business.
It's whatever they say it is. The Soviets had that down to a fine art.
No.
From the FBI website:
■ A person adjudicated mental defective or involuntarily committed to a mental institution or incompetent to handle own affairs, including dispositions to criminal charges of found not guilty by reason of insanity or found incompetent to stand trial.