I have lost two friends to suicide by gun. In high school a friend who was only 14 used a .270 rifle under his chin on Christmas eve. That was 40 years ago and his family still bears the scars.
More recently an adult friend and father of two little girls drove to a secluded park and shot himself with a .38. Both were know to be suffering from depression or Bi-polar disorder.
Pills often don’t work, other methods are less common and may give the person a chance to back out. Pulling a trigger takes only a second and is usually fatal.
I don’t think doctors should constantly screen for depression and reporting any of your health information to the government is an invasion of privacy and a step on the road to tyranny.
However -if you have friends or family that are clinically depressed or bi-polar it is only prudent to limit their access to firearms until they are well. This is no more radical than taking the car keys from a drunk friend on a Saturday night. Friends don’t let friends drive drunk, and friends don’t leave depressed friends alone in a room with a loaded gun.
The US doesn’t have a particularly higher suicide rate than any other industrialized country. Guns are a blatantly obviously fatal and anyone choosing them is making a serious attempt. People in Japan, Russia, and jail, regularly commit suicide without access to a gun. If you are concerned that someone is suicidal taking away their gun and pretending everything is ok would be stupid.
What part of its none of your damn business don't you get? Drunk is literally incapacitated. Where's the threshold for depressed? How about theft of property? How about what you're describing IS tyranny?
Go suck a jackboot, you calculating, soft-peddling totalitarian POS.