Jennie, there is a problem with your solution: a doctor
decides that a person has a mental disorder, prescribes
drugs, and then reports the patient to the authorities if
the patient owns a gun. Correct?
- would you tell your doctor that you
owned a gun?
- if you were the doctor, would you put yourself and
possibly your family and your employees in jeopardy by
asking a mentally disturbed person the question in the first
place?
Furthermore, how do we address the situation of
gun-owner doctors who may be taking anti-depressants? How
about a case of an ex-girlfriend who is
depressed because her boyfriend threatened her? Afraid,
she buys a gun. Does she have a mental problem requiring
anti-depressants? The doctor is being asked to make a
judgment call. If he doesn't report her and she shoots
someone, is he held liable? What if she buys a gun after she
had seen him? Is he accused of malpractice? Misdiagnosis?
What? Hmmm, perhaps she doesn't have a mental problem after
all.
You can see how the governmental regulatory business
would soon be overwhelmed, to say nothing of the legal
system
The only secular solution is to go down the road to a
police state. The only real solution requires a moral debate
and our society may be too far down the road to hell to have
one.
Marie Komar