"Not INVOLUNTARILY Committed, or ADJUDICATED Mentally Ill" have the RIGHT to own guns" [View all]

[HockeyMom]

This is what so many gun owners right here on DU have said to me when I say my daughter is Bi-Polar and that she should have the RIGHT to own a gun if none of the above is applicable. I have said that I disagree, and even SHE herself has said that. Yet, these gun rights people think she should have the right. Go to a search of mass murders and you will see that many were being treated for mental illness, but never "involuntarily committed" or "adjudicated mentally incompetent" under the law. I know in Florida, the Land of the Gun, that is the criteria.

Maybe THIS needs to change???????? If you are just plain being TREATED for a mental illness, you are not allowed to own a gun.

As far as the recent massacre, this may be moot since the peep was under 21 years old, BUT as with the Columbine massacre, the gunman/men got their guns from their PARENTS, who PROMOTED the concept of guns to their unstable children.