I'm not going to look back to find the posts that I wanted to quote.
There are a handful of reasons why mentally unstable persons can consistently acquire firearms legally.
The background check process requires a person to self certify that they are not mentally unstable. Other than persons who have been committed against their will (this requires a court order that is extremely difficult to get) no background check will ever turn up mental heath issues. We have medical privacy laws that keep mental health records private in the same way that every other medical record is private.
Likewise, most persons who have mental health issues will never randomly shoot a place up.
There are a handful of reasons why mentally unstable persons can consistently acquire firearms legally.
The background check process requires a person to self certify that they are not mentally unstable. Other than persons who have been committed against their will (this requires a court order that is extremely difficult to get) no background check will ever turn up mental heath issues. We have medical privacy laws that keep mental health records private in the same way that every other medical record is private.
Likewise, most persons who have mental health issues will never randomly shoot a place up.
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