(08-28-2018, 04:47 PM)americus 2.0 Wrote:

(08-28-2018, 04:28 AM)lastonealive Wrote: The problem is the legal gun owner who would likely shoot anyone may share a house with someone who may have mental health issues.

A reason why these incidents don't happen if ever in a lot of countries is that people with social issues would never be able to navigate the black market to get their hands on an illegal weapon.

We have a friend here in NC who was married to a girl who has serious mental health issues we thought she had worked through (turns out she's an excellent liar). He has several hunting rifles and a shotgun he had to store in a locked gun safe in a locked closet that she couldn't have any access to. Like a reinforced door she couldn't hack through if she went nuts. Local law enforcement could show up at any time to be sure his guns were locked down- he agreed to it when they married- which was a good idea for when she really did go bat crap crazy. All she could do in the end was take a rocking chair from the porch and break all of the windows she could reach from outside the house.

He wasn't in denial of the potential risk of her mental illness so he took precautions, though I can't say I'd agree to law enforcement showing up whenever. I think a big problem is people are willfully ignorant of the mental health issues in themselves or family members and have the "it will never happen to me/this family" mentality. That's dangerous.