And, this is where you are making a wrong assumption. If they have been adjudicated as mentally defective, they have no such right. Being "tossed in an asylum" is not a requirement. Did you bother reading question 11(f) on form 4473 you filled out when you last bought a gun from a dealer?
We have laws that keep irresponsible people from hurting others before the fact. You may even argue that they seem to be unconstitutional. The 1st Amendment does not give you free reign to shout "fire" in a crowded theater. I think before this is all over with, the 2nd Amendment won't allow you to carry firearms in public without some sort of prior instruction or certification. As more states open up to constitutional carry, some saneness will finally prevail. I'm just afraid that won't happen until enough people have been injured or killed. You forget the 2nd Amendment was to allow us to protect ourselves from a tyrannical government. It wasn't created as an outlet for testosterone.
You don't need a license or instruction in order to exercise your right to free speech. Can you misuse your rights? Sure. But you don't silence or jail someone ante facto, because they "might" yell "fire".
I think before this is all over with, the 2nd Amendment won't allow you to carry firearms in public without some sort of prior instruction or certification.
Again, the 2nd Amendment doesn't "allow" you anything. You have the Right by virtue of your very existence as a human being. I'm not sure why you fail to grasp this, but that's not my problem.
As more states open up to constitutional carry, some saneness will finally prevail.
Correct. Our birthright to keep and bear arms sans the imprimatur of some dipshit Dem bureaucrat will finally find its full expression.
I'm just afraid that won't happen until enough people have been injured or killed.
People are already injured and killed every day. Mostly with fists, feet and blunt instruments. They'll think twice if their targets are openly packing heat. A piece is a great dissuader.
You forget the 2nd Amendment was to allow us to protect ourselves from a tyrannical government.
Again, the 2nd Amendment doesn't "allow" you anything. You have the Right by virtue of your very existence as a human being. Our right to keep and bear arms is no more limited to use against the government anymore than our right to keep and bear books is limited to anti-government pamphlets. It's really none of your damned business as to why a person chooses to arm themselves and what manner of shooting in which they choose to partake so long as they don't commit any crime. Besides, it is quite ridiculous to think that the same tyrannical government that compels its citizenry to take up arms in self defense would, at the same time, issue licenses.
It wasn't created as an outlet for testosterone.
Fetish so noted. I think we are done here.