Wait and see the angles at which the Obamantions administration use the new Health Care to come at firearms owners. This is already been talked about on national television. They may might not be able to do away with the Second Amendment as we now know it, but they may deem you mentally ill and unfit to own firearms. Personally, I believe in time this will be implemented. Once it's completely Guv't ran health care, in which, where we are going ultimately. They will dictate what questions Dr's ask and they (Guv't) will come up with their own conclusions to your answers. Obamacare must be defeated.
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assuming a law could be written to provide halfway objective criteria, who gets to decide whether an individual should be allowed to have a gun?
A medical doctor who may have his or her own biases, and may have served a psych. rotation in med school and had a seminar or two in diagnosing and treating mental illness? Just use the DSM as a mental illness checklist, with its 200-some categories, most of which have nothing to do with violent behavior? Once visited your employer's EAP? No gun for you.
Or local law enforcement? In the Iowa city and county where I used to live, the police chief and sheriff were against concealed carry, and until it became a shall issue state, the sheriff seldom issued a permit, and didn't have to give a reason for denying it. When the law was changed a few years ago it was over much wailing and gnashing of teeth by law enforcement officials, and opposition by the chiefs and sheriffs associations.
And you can bet the attorneys will get to weigh in, and most who advise govt. officials are risk aversive, so will advise against doing something if there is any chance it will go south. Birth control? Don't have sex. Next question.
Principles aside, the details matter - a lot.
Paul
