Mental illness refers to a wide range of mental health conditions — disorders that affect your mood, thinking and behavior. Examples of mental illness include depression, anxiety disorders, schizophrenia, eating disorders and addictive behaviors. Many people have mental health concerns from time to time.....Why do you ask?
“Why do you ask?”
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Some of my follow up posts addressed the impetus for that question.
Bottom line: should someone who is anorexic be denied the right to bear arms? How about an alcoholic? Clinical depression is a mental illness insomuch as it usually comes about as an imbalance of chemicals in the brain, but many who are going through a period of sadness or who are down on their luck may self-diagnose and seek counseling despite not being clinically depressed. Should they also be denied the right to bear arms?
Any time the government is in the business of litigating or defining something within the boundaries of actual RIGHTS, tyranny will follow.