Quote:In this case, absolutely. If you lived in California, I could tell officials you are my friend and you are thinking of suicide. They could then come and seize your weapons, whether or not you are actually considering suicide or not (or whether you are a friend or not, after all how could a mentally ill suicidal person be capable of telling the truth?).


You don't see that as a problem? Then you are lost.

If that is untrue the accuser would be exposed to penalty for calling the police under false pretenses. The police would need to investigate and find reasonable cause to actually take away guns. (I get that reasonable cause is subjective and see where people can question this).


The flip side.. when a guy calls his ex up and tells her he is going to shoot her or when a fundamentalist (insert religion here) writes a manifesto on how they are gonna kill everyone they work with because they don't follow their beliefs, should the police be given the ability to act?

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