I am concerned that by this method that the parameters or definitions of" too crazy to have a gun" will expand to include a broad range of bahaviors. Call me paranoid. Oh, wait, I did not say that. I take it back.
I have called the police twice in 35 years for a gun-related issue.
The first was years ago. I was working in a detox for a few extra $$ screening drunks for medical issues so they could dry out. A guy came in about 2 am and told me he was going to go to the ER of hospital X and start killing doctors and nurses, because they wouldn’t give him narcotics, but since he knew he would get in trouble, he wanted to see if I could “talk him out of it”. He told me he had a shotgun in his car outside. I called the police so THEY could talk him out of it.
The second was a few years ago. A man’s wife left him, with his kids, and he wanted to die. He had just bought a handgun. He refused to go to the ER, so I called the police to help him make a better decision.
What would you have done in these two cases? What laws would you write to guide or govern what I did?
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I don’;t know if Ive said it in this thread or not, but if not, Over the last few years, I noticed a push by docs to swhove anti-depressents on folsk for everythign from backaches to muscle spasms to toenail fungus- it’s becoem a joke aroudn here that after a person goes to docs, they are asked what anti-depressents they were prescribed this time-
But ya know, I can’t prove it of course, but I’m wodnerign if thsi whole gun grab/mental health evaluatiions issue hasn’t been i nthe works for a logn time now with docs trying to shove anti-depressents on everyone knowign that eventually gun owners woudl becoem suspect IF they were ever on anti-depressents and ‘need a mental health evaluation’
I could never understand why docs were so eager to shove dangerous mind manipulating drugs on folks- but I’m beginnign to wonder if it might have been in preperation for the coming gun restrictions and reguirements to own guns-