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I don't think it's so much that I disagree. It's just that I see it from the point of view of someone who has worked with patients that have mental illness. It's pretty difficult to argue that a person that guns down a school full of children isn't mentally ill. The only other explanation would be that they are just pure evil. And that could be the case but I just believe the former is more true.

I'm not saying that every person with a mental health diagnosis is automatically disqualified necessarily. However these diagnosis would be something to consider when the physician gives a yes or no. I would even be for these diagnosis having a bit higher insurance premiums.

The only drawback I see is that this system could possibly cause people to not seek mental health care for fear of being d/q from owning a gun or having higher premiums.

But the way I see it is that they aren't getting care now anyway because we have a shitty healthcare system in America. The well to do have health insurance and can get care. The poor are left to fend for themselves and can only go to the emergency room which they can't affords to pay and that just runs the premiums up for those that can pay. When it comes to mental health people just neglect it because either they can't afford it or because they don't care.

Either way the result is the same. Massacres carried out on the regular!