Today's Poll: Should there be a national database of the mentally ill?

WOW.....While I believe that weapons should be kept from the mentally ill, this is a slippery slope! First of all, what is considered "mentally ill"?? Much like the first poster, I just think there is too wide of a "grey area".

For Example: A kid in 9th grade is depressed and anxious because she just had to change schools for the 4th time. Her parents get her some professional help to deal with her issues, the professional puts her on anti depressants for a short period of time whie she adjusts......again. 20 years later: She goes to get a gun permit so she can go target shooting with her sig other and is denied because she is in the "database"??? Is that OK??

OR

Will ANYONE who has had to have a therapist of some sort for whatever reason be on "the list"?

Where will it end??

I am glad i am not the person who has to decide this stuff!

PEACE & LOVE people!

I answered yes because I know that our current system of background checks for firearm purchases has no way of verifying whether an applicant is mentally ill or not. It's obvious that the real problem with recent events is mental health, not guns. I realize that not everyone procures firearms legally, but I don't think we'll ever be able to prevent that from happening.

There was a time when people could actually be committed for an indefinite period of time if mental health care practitioners deemed a patient to to be dangerous to their selves or to other people. Now it's almost impossible to force a mentally ill person to be treated for issues that pose those kinds of threats.

In the case of William Spengler, his mental health issues were known and given his prior history and what he had been saying to other people, he should not have been free to roam among the rest of us. He beat a 92 year old woman to death with a hammer and was only convicted of manslaughter. (That just escapes all logic in my opinion.) William Spengler had made threats against his sister and had said things that should have made people say "ummmm WTF?"

" So desperate are some people to make sense of the slaughter that they resorted to the flimsiest of straw men."

http://reason.com/archives/2012/12/20/wrong-answers-for-mass-shootings

I wish I had the answer to stopping mass murders and the shooting of innocent people, especially children. I don't and neither does much of anyone else, in my humble opinion. Crazy government crack-downs are a waste of time and resources. Like the author of the article above points out rounding up the usual suspects might make some of you feel better, but it won't have much of a positive effect.

Don't worry, there is absolutely no way the government could use this list to suppress its own people.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_abuse_of_psychiatry_in_the_Soviet...

You can't join the military with severve mental or social disorders. In other words, WE DONT WANT YOU TO HAVE A GUN. The mentally ill should not be allowed to own or operate a gun.

Gun Control for the Mentally unstable

1) Mental data collected over a period of time can and will be used against you.
2) If you have had an issue, you would need to get a doctor to sign off on your well being.
3) During your back round check, if you have had any blips at all, including arrest record, you should need a judge to sign off on it.

Really there is alot that can be done, that isn't.

If they don't institute something along the lines I suggested for THE MENTALLY CHALLENGED, not us, then the GOVERNMENT IS going to take our guns. Twice now in the last week, Gov. Cuomo's office has leaked verbage like "confiscation" and "Manditory for all". This is seriously scary shit to me, very Orwellian.

The best part is that all this crap is a complete over reaction. There are so many other things to focus on. I have done so much research on this over the last few weeks, it will make anyones head spin. Did you know that more people have been killed in the streets of Chicago and Washington DC in 5 years than have been killed in active combat in Afganastan since 2001. Most of the 10,000 dead in those two cities over the last 10 years, have been by criminal means, and most done by someform of mental disorder and a gun.

GET MORE HELP FOR THE MENTALLY ILL OR SOCIAL DISORDERS, AND FOR THE LOVE OF GOD, DON'T LET THEM HAVE A GUN!