“I sure could support a concerted effort to get mentally disturbed individuals into the background check database. I can’t believe so many never make it in, allowing them to buy guns.”
The term “mentally disturbed” is as well defined as the term “assault weapon”. It’s kind of like pornography: I know it when I see it.
We’ll need some criteria for “mentally disturbed” and the opinions of anti-gun, pro control mental health “experts” won’t cut it.
There is a legal definition for mental illness just as there is for felony. If you've been adjudicated as mentally defective by a court and committed to a mental institution for your own protection and that of others, you're considered unfit to bear arms.
We already have laws in place to prevent such people from buying or possessing firearms. This is about enforcing laws that are already on the books and that almost everyone agrees with, not about creating new laws and restrictions.