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How do you create a policy limiting access to firearms for those people who are mentally unstable without infringing on stable, law-abiding citizens 2nd Amendment rights?
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There was a time when folks simply knew each other and family would say "oh we don't let Uncle Bob have guns". Certainly not a perfect system but the older I get the more I'm concerned about convicting people before they've committed any crimes. There are a LOT of types of mental illness that wouldn't make the person unsafe with a firearm so we can't simply throw one huge blanket over the issue and call it done.
Yes there is a risk in playing to the side of liberty, but nobody ever said freedom was safe.