Maybe that will keep down the number of vets which are looking to scam some disability. Either you're mentally unstable or you are not. If you are.....then not only should you lose your 2nd Amendment rights......but you should be locked-up in the nuthouse.
Same deal with felons......if they are deemed safe enough to be released from prison they should have their full rights restored. If you can't trust them with a gun then they should still be in prison.
I agree completely with the latter statement. And I disagree just as completely with the former.
Mental stability is not a single-dimension bi-valued function. It is a spectrum of behaviors and responses which varies from person to person, from situation to situation, and from time to time.
Only the most serious of these situations, those which call for involuntary detention, should qualify for this treatment and such treatment should end when the involuntary detention ends. Anything else is incompatible with maintaining our freedoms.
Unfortuately, it doesn't work that way. Many people have problems, are depressed, or any number of other things, very few of those are a danger to others, no matter what sorts of implements they might have.
But the gun grabboids aren't interested in such minor distinctions. They are interesting in taking guns, your guns, my guns, our neighbor's guns.
"We're going to hammer guns on the anvil of relentless legislative strategy! We're going to beat guns into submission!"
--U.S. Rep. Charles Schumer NBC Nightly News 11/30/93