Name:   copperline - Subject:   On Mental Disorders Date:   1/11/2013 9:23:04 PM

i couldn’t agree with you more, a required mental health evaluation isn’t going to work very well in the real world.   For one thing, it would require some mental health professional or MD to sign off on each gun purchaser.  it would be foolhardy for one of those professionals to go on record testifying to your future mental health conditions, attorneys everywhere would be waiting to sue the clinician who approved a shooter…. So most  clinicians would probably have to refuse on the grounds that malpractice insurance companies will drop them if they did.      Your psychological record would become the property of the licensing state agency.  And past mental health history would become known, current conditions would become a red flag.   You could find yourself explaining to a stranger all those youthful indiscretions we wouldn’t want the kids to know about.

All that just to buy a gun for a dove hunt?  People won’t go for it, & i don’t think mental health evaluations are the tool we want to rely on to reduce gun violence.     Come to think about it, i bet we could ALL agree that government required psychological evaluations for licenses is probably not a good idea.    

BTW, i’d say it’s extremely unlikely that these psychological evaluations would be covered by ObamaCare.  Just guessing, because i can't be absolutely sure......   ;)