The AR-15.

I swear, I am becoming convinced that a large segment of the GOP gun-toting population is afflicted with tiny penis syndrome. I mean, they act like these guns, these death inflicting tools, are an extension of their manhood. Completely disgusting!

This happened in my area of Michigan last April. https://www.google.com/search?q=man+rifle+birmingham+mi&hl=en&client=firefox-a&tbo=d&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&source=lnms&sa=X&ei=s0TeUN_XIIzvqQG06IBQ&ved=0CAkQ_AUoAA&biw=1600&bih=746

Can’t we kick these people/morons to………a curb in the middle of the Pacific??!

And would that qualify as a mental illness requiring limitations on access to gun ownership?

Paranoias and psychotic breaks with reality would seem to be a reasonable starting point toward looking at which mental conditions do not mesh well with gun ownership, but all I am seeing since Newtown is mental illness = violent person, with no qualifications.

I keep seeing references to the necessity of tracking the “mentally ill” but I have seen no indications of any realization that mental illness *in and of itself* does not necessarily equal a tendency toward violence.

I do have professional experience in crisis work with the mentally ill and with domestic violence issues.

I do not want to see a false sense of security from labeling the mentally ill as those who should not have access to guns, while not looking at those who are sane but angry and who kill many many people every year.

Pull the other one, it’s got bells on.

–alopecia