re: Why hasn't the NRA endorsed mental health screens for gun owners?

Two words: slippery slope. Give liberal progressives an inch and they take a mile. While mental health screening seems prudent, there are many aspects of life where the mentally ill should be identified. But hell, liberals don't even want a picture id for voter identification and they want to issue drivers licenses to criminals aka illegal aliens.

When you have adversarial relationships in politics, everything boils down to ideological agendas. Politics in the U.S. used to be about compromise. Now with the liberal progressive movement in control, it's their way or the highway. They have placed themselves on the moral and mentally superior high-ground on every issue so from their perspective they are simply right/correct and conservatives are simply wrong/incorrect. They never acknowledge any facts/data to the contrary and they have the good old liberal news media to tout their successes and suppress their failures.

A ton of our vets have *mental health* problems, and seek professional help to live with em'. Yet being highly disciplined, and HONORABLE...most shoot themselves instead of blaming society.

These are exactly the kind of folk that Obama/Progs/Napolitano fears. Because they are skilled, committed...and an imminent and existential threat to...aspiring tyrants. And we all know who they are.

Off subject, but related. Somebody ought to start a thread re the NSA. Heard on Fox that Snowden reporter is due to release the NAMES LIST of them that the NSA targeted. Think Cruz will be on there? Tea Party?

I'm out.

nope, and neither were the people responsible for the 19 shootings in nola over the weekend if I had to guess

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I would think that an organization that prides itself in standing up for legal gun owners would make this a priority to help prevent the crazies from getting guns and harming people.

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frick that. I should not be subjected to a mental health screen by the government to own a product. Am I Winston Smith?

Yea another civil rights thread whoohoo,
see libs dont give a shite about infringing on your rights, they think all gun owners are crazy rednecks they have stereotyped and they believe they are superior. That is why they feel they can diminish your rights, or invade your privacy all in the name of safety for the common good of all.

*once again please do some research before you come here with the "background checks for all" "mental screening for all" bullshite. If you dont know what you are talking about please gtfo

he killed his three roomates with a knife.

should there be mental screens for people to buy a knife?

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I believe people can be legally committed if they have been found to be a danger to themselves or others. So it is already law.

Restricting someone due to an ignorant view of mental illness is ridiculous.

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yep in CA its called a 5150 or 5250

What these moronic libs do not understand is having the fedgov regulate a constitutional right as a health issue. Do they even see the issue here? and that right will be granted by the fedgov, where are my rights, they just evaporated
Also, who says what is mentally unstable, there are millions of americans who could fall under this. So the fedgov decides again who is unstable and who is not? again where did my rkba go?

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No offense, but when shite like this gets suggested I just laugh at the absurdity of it.

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same

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I think you've touched on the biggest problem... most gun owners are probably suffering from clinical paranoia... combined in quite a few, judging from the frequency of mass murders in this country, from sociopathy.

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