Purchasing a gun should require a mental health assessment

[Very_Boring_Name]

Owning a gun should require a new assessment every 3 years. Just sayin'.

[slackmaster]

1. Agreed. We should require one for voter registration as well. And for welfare or food stamps.

The only question I have is:

Who is competent to make such an assessment?

[Very_Boring_Name]

3. A psychologist?

[progressoid]

9. Ha!

Oh, wait. Were you serious?

[Kennah]

20. Let the market decide

VoteCorp Inc.

[villager]

2. Kind of like the way you have to still be able to see, in order to keep driving

n/t

[OneTenthofOnePercent]

18. There should be a vision and reaction/reflex test for all drivers (I'd say every 3-5 years).

[villager]

30. And all shooters. Every 3-5 years.

n/t

[Katya Mullethov]

31. And common sense universal helmet laws !

For ever-ee-body .no matter what their choice of motivation .

[villager]

33. Hmm... the last mass-killing via motorcycle was...?

Surely the NRA has given you those "propaganda stats" at your trigger-itchy fingertips!

[one-eyed fat man]

34. Might help when Mexicans go bowling for bikers with Buicks

[shadowrider]

35. That was a bad one

IIRC 3 people were killed in that accident.

[Katya Mullethov]

40. Didnt that guy get the needle ?

What value , three lives ?

[shadowrider]

41. I have a snarky response but it would be in bad taste n/t

[shadowrider]

42. I believe it happened in Mexico. Don't know what happened to him. n/t

[Atypical Liberal]

29. But only on public roads.

You only need a license to drive on public roads. If you operate a vehicle on private property, you do not need any paperwork at all.

Firearms are much the same way in most places.

[DCKit]

4. So should having kids.

Slippery slope, and all that.

[Drale]

5. As should signing up to run for office

I'm not being sarcastic here, I really believe it. You can call slippery slope and all, but a mentally incompetent person could do alot of damage, E.I. Bush.

[jody]

6. And using every inalienable right should require a mental health assessment. n/t

[safeinOhio]

7. Nope, just pee in the bottle and

bring in a note from your family doctor.

[jody]

10. OK if you hold the bottle!

[safeinOhio]

14. Not if you have to

squat to pee. :silly:

[jody]

51. What a male chauvinistic statement but I only squat when I have a prostate problem that my female

significant other says hasn't happened for a decade.

:hi: and have wonderful day.

[-..__...]

22. Welcome to to the gun friendly state of MA...

where your future, is now...

Firearms Licensing

What you need before applying


A completed Firearm Application. Download the application here.
*

Doctor's letter stating mental and physical status.
*

http://www.townofnorthandover.com/Pages/NAndoverMA_Police/firearms

Let me just state, that requiring a letter from your doctor is not, part of Massachusetts General Law when applying for a firearms license.

However... due to the language of the States "may issue" firearms licensing... the issuing authority (Chief of Police), has broad discretion in setting standards and requirements before issuing said license.

Fortunately... that standard has since been withdrawn.

As best as I can recall... there are at least 2 other PD's that have a similar requirement.

If that's not angering enough... up until a few years ago, there was another Police Chief that required proof of employment as a condition before issuing a license.

[PavePusher]

26. Only land owning tax-payers should be allowed to have Civil Priviliges.

Oops... :sarcasm:

[valerief]

8. I agree. Running for Congress should require that, too. nt

[Statistical]

11. So should having kids, or owning a motor vehicle. Just sayin'.

[jody]

12. I keep hoping some DUer will post something different from the same old nonsensical anti-RKBA

things I've read over the last decade.

[kelly1mm]

16. They have not learned yet that pushing positions favored by less

than 30% of the country is not usually a good electoral stratigy. If anything can lose the Senate and Presidency for Democrats, a serious push for gun control proposals like the one in the OP(even if likely unsuccessful) is it.

[east texas lib]

27. See #24. A cheap shot but it's all I got.

;-)

[Arctic Dave]

13. Brought this up before.

I'm for it.

[JustFiveMoreMinutes]

15. I'm beginning to think running for Public Office should too! sigh.

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17. Change that to a requirement for Internet access...

and you'd be on to something.

[Katya Mullethov]

19. I think I would have to audit the shrink first

I harbor a strong suspicion that their first candidate wont be fit to judge my sanity . I will however , refrain from hurling the tissues at the sobbing nebbish .

[one-eyed fat man]

23. You're right

Tossing tissues at jack wagons from namby pamby land is bad form

[Kennah]

21. How about a mental health exam for corporations?

They are people too, ya know.

[east texas lib]

24. A mental health assessment should require gun purchases...

Three new guns with every assessment every three years. Just sayin'.

[PavePusher]

25. As long as the cost comes out of your pocket...

and we apply same to all the Constitutional Rights, sure.

We can start 2 days after pink unicorns march out of your ass.

[badtoworse]

28. Until recent years, the NJ Constitution stated that idiots and insane people could not vote

Interestingly, it did not say they couldn't run for public office.

[guitar man]

32. Oklahoma gun law

"It is unlawful to knowingly transmit, transfer, sell, lend, or furnish a firearm to a person who is under an adjudication of mental incompetence, or to a person who is a moron, idiot or insane."

yet,they still sell guns to Republicans here :rofl:

<satire>

[badtoworse]

37. They left out imbeciles, maybe that's the loophole!

[shadowrider]

38. We wouldn't have a congress if it weren't for them n/t

[Katya Mullethov]

47. Discount the imbecile voting block at your own peril

[Tuesday Afternoon]

36. Who would be in charge and who would decide who sits on the board?

This is not a good idea.

[guitar man]

43. bingo

The potential for abuse is what makes it a bad idea. It could be used to keep brown people and GLBT people from owning firearms.

[Xela]

39. Nonsense. What would be next? Test to buy knives?

Or to buy a book?

Xela

[Very_Boring_Name]

44. You're right. We've had far too many book massacres this year

:eyes:

[Glassunion]

48. Since we are only 12 days into this year, you are correct. Please look at the following and see if

you can find the correlation...

John Lennon
Ronald Regan
Rebecca Schaeffer

[MicaelS]

45. And being able to vote

Should require passing three tests... a literacy, a civics, and a history test.

Maybe we can add a fee to be able to vote, too, while we're at it. Just to cover the other taxpayer's costs involved with your voting.

See how easy that was?

[Shagbark Hickory]

46. Most gun crimes are not caused by a mentally ill person. So this would be of little use...

nevertheless, a step in the right direction

[Very_Boring_Name]

49. The act of wanting to own a weapon designed to kill other human beings

makes me question the mental health of gun owners.

[Glassunion]

50. Um... Yeah...

The old catch 22. We have to make sure your sane before you can have one and the act of wanting one makes you insane.

We should start with law enforcement.

[jody]

52. Thanks for an OP that invites many humorous replies alluding to the inaneness of your OP. n/t

[rl6214]

53. I think the same should go for

anyone that owns or purchases a keyboard or computer of any type.