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This is not a list of misdemeanants, it is a list of people who have been adjudicated mentally ill in a court of law and confined to a mental hospital for some period of time. I get the underlying principles of liberty, but it's already against the law for these people to own guns.

If you want to abolish the underlying laws against violent abusers, felons, and psychotic people owning guns, that's fine, but you should also admit that every time one of those people uses a gun in a crime, it works against the 80 million of us gun owners who are not, and it would work doubly against us if it were not illegal for those people to buy and own firearms.

The gun-haters were getting ready to make hay with Muhammad's AR-15, in preparation for the AW ban sunset, but it fizzled on them because he got it illegally.

This is not a list of misdemeanants, it is a list of people who have been adjudicated mentally ill in a court of law and confined to a mental hospital for some period of time.

If they're confined to a mental hospital, then there's no need to worry about whether they can obtain guns. It's the same logic you hear from people saying that convicted felons shouldn't own guns. Sure they shouldn't - they shouldn't be out on the street in the first place! If you have the right to be in society, you have the right to the means to defend yourself - period.

It all sounds well and good to say that "those people" shouldn't have the right to a gun, but when you start making lists of gun owners, it doesn't just inconvenience "those people"; it casts a chill over the right of everyone to be armed. When government has extensive knowledge of who's armed and who isn't, it defeats a very important purpose of the second amendment.

Would you please provide a list of exceptions in the Second Amendment?

If you cannot do that, then would you please list all the people that you do not think should be allowed to arm themselves?