I want to know who, exactly, gets to decide who and what, is “crazy”.
That is the issue. What is the definition of crazy enough to have their guns taken away? And who gets to make the call?
In the Army it was easy, the commander of the unit could lock down just about anyone until an initial investigation.
So, it was temporary pending results.
I trusted that system. The officers and NCOs I ever worked with were honorable Americans.
In our civilian system, we don’t have the means of making quick checks to determine the real history of any given person. In the army, we were a pretty tight community and if someone was strange, it was there in the unit. And evidence and anecdotes.
The best I can come up with is a judge: then a requirement to check with neighbors, with police, with local records and newspapers, with doctors.
That answer won’t satisfy everyone, but we’d make all this a lot better by hardening our schools and re-instituting insane asylums.
The next POTUS in 2021: either Warren or Gillibrand