“The folks taking meds are likely already prohibited from owing a firearm.”
Why? Are the effects of the drugs somehow different than the effects of bipolar on the brain?
Prohibited ownership includes:
Who has been adjudicated as a mental defective or has been committed to any mental institution;If they're on drugs to modify their behavior after there has been an intervention then there is a very high likelihood that they fall into the first category to some degree. But I'm no mental health professional.
If the drugs work, and they take them, then I imagine they don't but how they establish a clean bill of health I don't know and that concerns me.
This is for a background check for new purchases, or includes existing firearms? I’m think new purchases. But then how do you deny a new purchase to somebody with the same conditions as a existing gun owner?
I’m not advocating a right or wrong side, I’m genuinely interested in everyone’s input and opinions.
I see points on both sides and have no doubts liberals would abuse any new laws inacted, I’m just wondering how people feel about mental health and firearms, because I have heard it many, many times, “the signs were there, people spoke out, it was ingnored.”
Well it really want ignored, the system prevents any type of pre-emtive action.
