This is what the NRA is proposing to reduce the risk of the mentally ill getting guns with which to shoot up innocent people.
Isn't a national database of individual abilities what the book 1984 was all about? Isn't keeping the government out of individual lives what every American wants to prevent? How does a person who somehow overcomes their mental illness supposed to get their name off the list so they can get a job? Would such a specific law targeting a specific group even be constitutional?
The 1st group I would imagine suing to prevent the law from being implemented is the NRA.
All we need to do is get automatic weapons off the street and out of circulation. If the Congress had let the law continue in 2004, there wouldn't be very many automatic weapons in circulation. Now it will take 100 years for them to wear out and not be useful, although you might be able to do it faster by limiting ammunition sales.
I support hunters, but this focus on allowing anyone to own any gun is beyond my comprehension. Why not let everyone own a bazooka and a shoulder fired anti-aircraft missile? After all, they are simply forms of guns and something any self-respecting terrorist would love to have. Then we would need for the good guys to have the same weapons so they could take out the terrorists. This is the world the NRA wants us to live in?
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