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In reply to the discussion: 'Known schizophrenic' bought guns(at Walmart) before arrest in mother's shooting death [View all]happyslug
(14,779 posts)32. Not if you are incompetent
But short of incompetency you are correct, if someone is incompetent then he or she no longer has the ability judge such a purchase rationally and thus the buying and selling is not permitted by law.
Please note, incompetency is a very low threshold, you have to be a harm to yourself or others, you must no longer know what you own or who are your heirs (The classic example is a Person can think he is Napoleon, but if he knows who his actual heirs are and what his property is, he is still competent under the law).
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kpete
Feb 2013
OP
Are you to enshrine discrimination against the handicapped in the constitution?
harmonicon
Feb 2013
#36
Schizophrenics are only marginally more likely than "normal" people to commit a violent crime.
Kurska
Feb 2013
#4
And thus many people do NOT go to Doctor for fear they may lose their license
happyslug
Feb 2013
#21
No and they're notoriously sketchy. My mother has been diagnosed with numerous psychological
Ed Suspicious
Feb 2013
#9