> I took a gun from someone and never gave it back because they became crazy… <
You did the right thing. Nevertheless, it’s a tough call. In a way, it’s like taking the car keys away from an older relative who cannot possibly drive safely, but wants to drive anyway.
I’d prefer that the government not arbitrarily make that decision (guns or driving). But, yeah. Sometimes someone must intervene. A few years ago, I was involved in an intervention where a 90+ relative was told that she simply could not drive ever again.
I hated it. But it had to be done.
When I had looked him up to find out what was going on in his life and why he had quit coming around knowing that he had started using crack, I saw that night that the crack had triggered a mental illness, he was extremely rich and when he was describing the killing talk from the voices on the TV I got up went to his master bedroom and searched for the gun, and took it, later I called his very wealthy father and told him his son needed help.
When he came over months later and we had the gun conversation and he said the cops, I figured that his brain had agreed with my action and he didn’t need a gun in his life.
A really tyrannical dumbass way to violate the second amendment:
“Well, HE shouldn’t have a gun !”
We had to take the keys from a relative who had dementia bad enough that she was a hazard to be behind the wheel.
It’s a hard thing to do, but for their protection, and the protection of others, it HAD to be done.
She had been in an accident prior to that and only got worse since then. Fortunately, the accident was one where she only hit a structure, no people were involved, but it was a busy weekend and we were shocked that nobody had gotten hurt, but knew what a close call it was.