Posted by burnsy483 on 4/11/2014 10:34:00 AM (view original):
If you're found to have withheld information regarding your son's mental illness, in order to get a gun, make it so that you're never allowed to legally get a gun moving forward. And improve how we deal with mental illness, so that we encourage people to get help for themselves and loved ones.
I understand there are no easy answers here. I just wanted to say something when you argued that it really didn't matter much whether this kid had a gun or not. If gun laws prevented him from having a gun that day, that's a good thing, because there's a higher probability that someone/many people would have died that day if he had one.
I think you missed the point. She already had guns before his mental issues were discovered. Would she have to surrender her guns? If so, and she hides her son's problems, doesn't he still access the guns and do what he did? Again, tying gun ownership to people who might have a way to access them, but not own them, is complicated.
I don't think one can argue that if he had a gun that the outcome would have been much worse. Maybe it would have been, maybe it wouldn't have. That's a dumb argument to make.