Quote:The bolded text is irrelevant and a red herring. Regardless, many more weren't. A relative of mine was murdered, but the perpetrator plea bargained to manslaughter and was out in 7 years. Cut her up and stuffed her in a closet. If you think his debt was paid and he should be able to purchase a gun upon release we will probably find no common ground.

 

Should someone with a clinical diagnosis of mental illness be able to own a gun?

With the way they hand out clinical diagnosis' today, I am gonna go with a firm yes.  You would take away about 20% of the population if you said everyone with a depression/anxiety/ etc diagnosis can't have weapons. I would be much more willing to ban drugs that cause 'homicidal ideation' in people. https://www.cchrint.org/psychiatric-drug..._violence/ If your gonna ban something at least get the thing that is actually causing the problem (i.e. making the people unstable).

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