If the government gets the power to deny “mentally ill” people gun rights, we will soon see everyone but thugs named too mentally ill to have self defense rights.
People will avoid counseling for fear of it being used by nanny staters against them. We will have the government trolling all communications to locate “mentally ill” (politically incorrect) people for denial of second amendment rights. We will have liberals serving as “informers” to tag people they hate as “mentally ill.” ATF will go at it with the enthusiam and the sense of truth and justice of Stalin.
It's already happened, and is happening, why do you think that Army mental-health (issues) is the way it is?
We will have the government trolling all communications to locate “mentally ill” (politically incorrect) people for denial of second amendment rights. We will have liberals serving as “informers” to tag people they hate as “mentally ill.” ATF will go at it with the enthusiasm and the sense of truth and justice of Stalin.
Of course; if there's any way that the government can deny weapons to people then it will be abused, even by the given justification for the denial. {That is to say, that when the government has the power to dictate who can have arms then they will invariably use that power.}