We just had a policeman killed in Indianapolis , along with a couple of other pepople, because of a situation like this. The police had even taken the guy's guns once, because he was considered a danger to himself. However, in Indiana those guns couldn't legally be kept for more than 30 days unless medical proof was shown. The hospital dropped the ball, the police had to return the guns (taken in a prior disturbance) and a week later the guy was blasting his way through a neighborhood.
If you ask me, the first thing that needs to be addressed is mental health laws and why we are allowing crazy people out on the street. This applies not only to gun crimes, but homelessness, child molestation, indecent exposure, rape, and a whole host of problems caused by letting dangerous people wander around unsupervised.
So now, how will restricting everyone elses Rights solve this situation? That is how the laws are being penned. It needs to stop.
The mother of my high school sweet heart went through a similar commitment hearing to remove her gun Rights. Too much to go in to here, but current mental health Laws worked in her case. Not the gun laws currently screwing us all.
Bingo. If you can't be trusted with a gun, you belong in a cage. So much of gun control is about letting crazy and dangerous people wander around in the general population and trying to keep guns away from them.