I have to be honest with you, as someone with bipolar in the family, it would scare the hell out of me to not have any recourse in disarming somebody having a manic episode.
You’d need to live with full blown mania to understand the precarious situation a firearm in the mix would have.
So let me put it to you folks, should there be recourse to disarm somebody in mental distress? What should the criteria be for disarming somebody who is hearing voices?
So Barkoff, do you live with someone or have a family member who is bipolar and they have access to guns?
Well, yes, I live with somebody bipolar, she is doing well for the last year, but yes, I still lock up my all firearms. Before she was medicated and moved back home, she lived on her own in a condo, if she would have had a firearm which legally she could have obtained, I would have done everything in my power to get it from her.
