Should gun buyers have to pass psychiatric examinations?

[Bugsy McGurk]

After all, gun aficionados, from Trump on down, are arguing that guns aren’t the problem - the problem is guns getting into the hands of those with mental problems.

Fair enough then. The only realistic way to keep such people from buying guns is to make them pass a psychiatric exam first. So we should have such a law, right?

 

[marvin martian]

After all, gun aficionados, from Trump on down, are arguing that guns aren’t the problem - the problem is guns getting into the hands of those with mental problems.

Fair enough then. The only realistic way to keep such people from buying guns is to make them pass a psychiatric exam first. So we should have such a law, right?

Will they be administered by the quacks who remotely diagnosed the president using their psychic "powers"? You know, the ones you supported?

 

[Bugsy McGurk]

Will they be administered by the quacks who remotely diagnosed the president using their psychic "powers"? You know, the ones you supported?

I’ll just ignore your usual lie and ask if you support this proposal if the exams are not administered by quacks. In person exams required too, needless to say.

We can count on your support?

 

[Dawg]

Since automobiles kill more people than GUNs, should drivers be tested by shrinks also?

Doctors kill more people than all you fear combined, will you have shrinks examine them as well?

To answer you ignorant question==HELL NO

 

[marvin martian]

I’ll just ignore your usual lie and ask if you support this proposal if the exams are not administered by quacks. In person exams required too, needless to say.

We can count on your support?

Of course not. That's an infringement of civil rights. Only fascists would want such a thing.

 

[trapdoor]

After all, gun aficionados, from Trump on down, are arguing that guns aren’t the problem - the problem is guns getting into the hands of those with mental problems.

Fair enough then. The only realistic way to keep such people from buying guns is to make them pass a psychiatric exam first. So we should have such a law, right?

No.

 

[Sickofleft]

Well if that is the case so much for you ever owning a gun.....

 

[freyasman]

Well if that is the case so much for you ever owning a gun.....

That boy is stuck on stupid.

 

[Spamature]

After all, gun aficionados, from Trump on down, are arguing that guns aren’t the problem - the problem is guns getting into the hands of those with mental problems.

Fair enough then. The only realistic way to keep such people from buying guns is to make them pass a psychiatric exam first. So we should have such a law, right?

Notice how they say there is nothing you can do. Yet when you come up with things you can do those same people immediately reject them.

 

[freyasman]

 

[marvin martian]

Notice how they say there is nothing you can do. Yet when you come up with things you can do those same people immediately reject them.

There's plenty we can do, starting with enforcing existing laws and providing security and safety for school children at least equivalent to that we provide for money in a bank. Why do you oppose that?

Letting fascists like you run roughshod over hundreds of millions of law-abiding Americans' civil rights is never the solution in a free society such as ours.

Keep your fascist hands off my civil rights.

 

[Constitutional Sheepdog]

After all, gun aficionados, from Trump on down, are arguing that guns aren’t the problem - the problem is guns getting into the hands of those with mental problems.

Fair enough then. The only realistic way to keep such people from buying guns is to make them pass a psychiatric exam first. So we should have such a law, right?

Ok voter ID and ownership of property before you can vote

 

[Bugsy McGurk]

Since automobiles kill more people than GUNs, should drivers be tested by shrinks also?

Doctors kill more people than all you fear combined, will you have shrinks examine them as well?

To answer you ignorant question==HELL NO

Jeez, you don’t want to pretend that the “real issue” is mental health?

 

[Bugsy McGurk]

Of course not. That's an infringement of civil rights. Only fascists would want such a thing.

Some think they have a civil right not to be shot in the head, and they also think that such a view is not fascist.

Since you don’t share that view, how should we address what gun proponents are calling the “real issue” - people with mental illness buying guns?

 

[Spamature]

There's plenty we can do, starting with enforcing existing laws and providing security and safety for school children at least equivalent to that we provide for money in a bank. Why do you oppose that?

Letting fascists like you run roughshod over hundreds of millions of law-abiding Americans' civil rights is never the solution in a free society such as ours.

Keep your fascist hands off my civil rights.

Enforce the law ? Every time something like this happens I here the current laws would not have prevented it. So apparently its the laws that are lacking not the enforcement.

And now you say we turn school into bank vaults ? I guess there is no education expense that should be spare when it comes to guns. Though, when it comes to actual education spending you guys sing a different tune.

 

[Bugsy McGurk]

No.

So all this gun proponent jive about mental illness being the “real issue” is just the usual lip service?

 

[Bugsy McGurk]

Notice how they say there is nothing you can do. Yet when you come up with things you can do those same people immediately reject them.

As tragic as our gun madness is, it is kinda fun revealing them to be bullshit artists, no?

;-)

 

[Bugsy McGurk]

Ok voter ID and ownership of property before you can vote

Try to focus on the topics, if at all possible.

 

[trapdoor]

So all this gun proponent jive about mental illness being the “real issue” is just the usual lip service?

No, because I can't afford to go see a psychiatrist -- so if you make the right dependent on that, you've denied the right entirely.

 

[Bugsy McGurk]

No, because I can't afford to go see a psychiatrist -- so if you make the right dependent on that, you've denied the right entirely.

Jeez, society has to subsidize people who have money to buy guns but no money to pay for a psych exam?

Let’s assume such imaginary people exist and government foots the bill for such “indigents.” You would then support psych exams to screen out the loony tunes?