Texas church shooting leaves many dead (atleast 27).

[Aeolus451]

monocle_layton said:

Aeolus451 said:

Not really. If someone is diagnosed by a legit doctor for certain mental illnesses then it should be fairly easy to blackllist them from buying a gun. The whole point is to keep unqualified people from using "you have a mental problem" as a justification to bar normal people from getting a gun. 

"The US President quietly signed a bill which would roll back an Obama-era regulation demanding gun checks for people with mental illnesses in February this year.

The law, which was first finalised in December, aimed to add people receiving Social Security checks for mental illnesses and people deemed unfit to handle their own financial affairs to the national background check database."

 

I don't think that's the issue represented. The bill would prevent someone who may be homicidal or scizophrenic from obtaining a dangerous weapon. What would we lose by not allowing the mentioned people from owninf a firearm?

My other recent reply to Hiku could be a good response to this.