[Seaplaner]

I thought maybe he was being treated for schizophrenia, never mind the hearing aid story-auditory and/or visual hallucinations are common with that particular mental disorder-and those people can be very, very dangerous.

Yes, this.

I've attended some presentations on mental health, and the most frequent hallucination befalling schizophrenics is auditory (voices). And, the voices are rarely kind or friendly.

I strongly suspect that it would be in violation of several laws for such an individual to obtains or possess firearms.

[lightman]

I've attended some presentations on mental health, and the most frequent hallucination befalling schizophrenics is auditory (voices). And, the voices are rarely kind or friendly

I have undergone a "hearing voices" exercise as part of law enforcement Crisis Intervention Team training.

You wear a headset and various voices...sometimes right ear only, sometimes left ear only, sometimes two or more voices in both ears saying stuff like "you are a loser" or "you are such a rotten creature that you do not deserve to live".

In training there is a volume control.

In real life there is none.

[Recovering Ex-hippie]

So what?
Anyone can get a gun.

Do you think gang bangers cant get guns.
Gun laws are for law abiding citizens.

[Texan5]

I’ve had a couple of workers comp clients who had been diagnosed with schizophrenia, but were able to work for awhile-eventually some voice told them to do something dumb and they got injured at work and in one case injured another worker too-needless to say, they were never able to get hired again, so they had to be at home watched over and medicated 24/7-it is very sad to see someone that way, a danger to everyone who has to be confined...