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This particular officer thinks that it would be OK if everyone had to have a psychological examination before being allowed to purchase a firearm.
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With an estimated 43,000 people killed in the U.S. per year in auto accidents, should we have mental evaluations to be able to legally drive in this country?
Every 14.2 minutes, someone dies by suicide in the U.S.
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...suicide, being the tenth leading cause of
preventable death in the U.S. , ...
....Should we have yearly mandatory psych. evaluations on everyone?
While the tragedies of these mass shootings will forever haunt us all, it's only fair when talking gun control that we also figure into the equation the number of SD situations that happen per year involving a firearm. Even a Federal study under the Clinton Adm. claimed 1.5 million incidents per year. Many studies show much higher incident rates.
With that incident rate per year, if we dis-arm the law abiding citizens, how many of those law abiding citizens will we be sentencing to assault or death per year?
Would the 'law abiding victim' count be more per year then the number of victims per year in senseless mass shootings?