I think medicated citizens are the problem. Not responsible gun owners. The medication alters judgement. When the medicated chooses to get their personality back, the medication addiction shatters their personality and they lose control.
Next line on the federal firearms form will ask what prescribed medications the applicant is taking. Now it only asks if the applicant is or has used illegal drugs.
But now if we had government health care, a simple background check of medical records could provide that tidbit.
Another reason NOT to support government healthcare.
Careful here. I'm a licensed gun owner and a medicated citizen. But my medications (issued through the VA) aren't mind altering or for psychological issues. They're for heart problems, blood pressure, cholesterol, stroke. But simply saying medicated citizens are the problem is painting with too broad a brush.
Being issued through the VA, my medications ARE part of a government database. Yet I have no problem obtaining my FOID renewals.