Posted by Jeff on April 12, 2000, at 18:58:57
In reply to Re: Guns and the mentally ill: a response to Mark, posted by Abby on April 12, 2000, at 16:59:53
I find it funny that there is even a debate on this issue. What about knives, pills, rope, carbon monoxide etc...If someone is suicidal they will find a way to off themselves. There are many well functioning depressives who have the capacity to reason right from wrong. I think the comparison of the epileptic piloting an aircraft is absurd. There is no revelance to that and a person taking a gun a shooting themselves. Who would be the judge anyway, the government, some panel of psychiatrists? Oh Mr. X is much too crazy for a gun but Mrs. Y is not. If guns are legal then they should be legal to everybody who has not comitted a crime. No one should be judged in advance for something the "might do".
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