(08-30-2018, 07:26 AM)flsprtsgod Wrote:

(08-29-2018, 08:58 PM)NYC4jags Wrote: The first statement highlighted is ludicrous fantasy or severe paranoia. Take your pick. 

As for the next bit - People are in fact able to be removed from no fly lists. There is a process and it is slow, but it happens frequently. 

You are trying to make exceptions to the rule into "the rule."  I'm sorry, but it's a weak stance that you've taken here.

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As usual, I appreciate your perspective.  You make good points even if I disagree with the degree of plausibility.

1 in 8 Americans currently use a prescribed antidepressant, up nearly 70% from the year 1999. Every one of them could be medically disqualified. Further, I've served on medical ethics review boards a few times. You would probably be shocked to learn how easily your right to self determination for yourself, and more so your children, can be stripped away by a doctor working in conjunction with the government. Your chart is not private from the government, its admissible evidence, and I can find a dozen legal ways to take your rights from you, every one starting with the Duty to Report laws that exist in some form in every State.

What grounds do you have to make this grand assumption?  Proposing a vetting process for the mentally unfit to purchase a new weapon does not somehow magically encompass everyone taking an antidepressant. That's just silly. 
Clearly - any legislation seeking to limit one's power to purchase a weapon would need to require clinical proof that an individual's prohibitive condition would need to pose a greater threat to public safety than the millions of people in therapy and medicated for depression. 

I think it would be tough to nail down the guidelines - and the majority of disturbed individuals would slip through the cracks anyway - but it would be a worthy effort if it makes it tougher for someone like that kid the other day to obtain weapons so easily.

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