And not to be flip, but this shooter apparently knew exactly how to operate his weapon, so the other criteria Voight discusses wouldn't have helped either.
Leftist anti2A beauracracts would be making the evaluations. Enough said.
A teacher buddy mentioned to me that as soon as a teenager turns eighteen his record gets sealed. The teacher suggested that perhaps it ought to be maintained for several years to see if the teen has “changed.”
As an aside, you often see really, really young blacks flogging drugs openly on street corners. This is because as soon as they hit eighteen, their arrest record is erased. Maybe that ought to change as well.
How about we require firearms safety training in all schools receiving federal funds? To include safe handling of various kinds of firearms in upper classes, say 6th grade and up?
A Republican majority in the next Congress could put this in the education funding bill, if they won’t abolish federal funding of education like they should.
Somehow I am glad if a mass shooter has not had training on marksmanship and how to clear a jammed gun.
“You simply cannot have mental testing as a prerequisite for having guns. It is simply too subjective, and too easily abused. It’s a non-starter.”
This is true. I wouldn’t necessarily be opposed to a mandatory drug test, though, including cannabis. That’s objective. You either have dope in your system or you don’t. Most of the nuts out there are on drugs, so cooling the heels of that cohort isn’t a bad idea.
Exactly. You can guarantee that the leftist who infest the mental health profession will deem that simply wanting to own a firearm is grounds to deny your request.
Folklore in medicine has been that the majority of physicians who specialize in psychiatry are at least as mentally ill as their patients, and there is a good deal of evidence to support that.
The US has normalized psychotic thinking. There are people who actually believe that a man can get pregnant and a woman can have a penis, and they aren't considered bizarre or out of the ordinary.
Ok, what would happen when too many minorities fail these tests.
Hell. Schools are cancelling honors programs due to to many minorities not getting in .