[JayGalt]

You have hit the nail on the head. If we give people the right to restrict gun ownership using an inexact standard “mental health” the decisions will be agenda driven and not evidence based. Add to that that mental healthcare practitioners are among the most liberal fringe thinkers and we have a recipe for chaos. This aspect could be better handled in a background check looking for hospitalizations and current psychotropic medications or by police as followup on interactions.

The problem is that individual rights and community saftey are potentially in conflict. A compromise will still leave both sides angry. We need to thread the needle, err towards Freedom and arm our schools.

[familyop]

"If we give people the right to restrict gun ownership using an inexact standard 'mental health' the decisions will be agenda driven and not evidence based."

We don't need to trust the expertise of psychs for everything. When a benzodiazepine or anti-depressant, for example, is cleaned out of a patient's system, require that a record be promptly corrected to show that. It's common sense. People on such drugs are far more likely to hurt themselves or someone else with a firearm than to defend themselves. And there's the remedy: require that the record be promptly corrected.

That would be a start.