“The Looney Left, for some reason, tends to ignore mental health issues”
They won’t for long! They will ask for a “full and deep psychological examination by a panel of certified physicians and psychiatrists” before you are allowed to get the forms to fill out your preliminary application to buy a firearm.
Perhaps an inpatient 48 hour observation period, with tests and exams, at your expense?
Sounds reasonable and commonsense, look at the lives it would have saved!
Additionally, tumors like the one Charles Whitman had might be detected at an early age.
In the case of this guy from Beaumont, there might have been red flags that were warnings.
It was decided about 60 years ago not to kept people who might be a danger to themselves or others in psychiatric wards, but release them and use medication to control them.
One would have to know more about the person yesterday from Beaumont.