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'AMW' host John Walsh: We need a mental illness registry for would-be gun owners
TMZ ^ | March 11, 2018 | Staff

Posted on 03/11/2018 5:31:08 PM PDT by Trump20162020

The host of America's Most Wanted, who also helped create a national registry for sex offenders, says the same system is needed for mentally ill people looking to buy guns.

We got John Walsh Saturday at LAX and asked what he made of Florida's new gun law -- in which the age limit to purchase guns was raised to 21 ... and teachers can now be armed.

He says it's a step in the right direction, but also thinks arming teachers is the wrong way to protect schools from potential shooters -- he wants trained pros on the ground instead.

Here's the most interesting tidbit ... John apparently believes a national registry logging people with serious mental illness needs to be implemented for would-be gun owners.

(Excerpt) Read more at tmz.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society
KEYWORDS: americasmostwanted; amw; banglist; johnwalsh; mentalillness; walsh
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To: Trump20162020

I think we should have a mental health registry for potential voters.

Then there would be a lot fewer Democrats elected.


61 posted on 03/11/2018 7:23:40 PM PDT by Innovative ("Winning isn't everything, it's the only thing." -- Vince Lombardi)
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To: goldstategop

Has anyone ever met a Psychiatrist or a Psychologist who is not severely troubled?
Umm...No.


62 posted on 03/11/2018 7:31:27 PM PDT by acapesket (all happy now?)
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To: Trump20162020

OK. You’re on it! Turn in your guns!


63 posted on 03/11/2018 7:37:21 PM PDT by CodeToad (Dr. Spock was an idiot!.)
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To: Trump20162020; Anti-Bubba182

Those who are labeled islamophobic will be put on the list.


64 posted on 03/11/2018 7:42:03 PM PDT by Architect of Avalon
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To: Chainmail

Lois Lerner.


65 posted on 03/11/2018 7:45:23 PM PDT by cradle of freedom
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To: Trump20162020

Let me know when the DMV includes Sanity Testing when you go in for your Driver’s License.

Background Checks for all Car Purchasers, including Private Sales.

Pass a Law that Car Keys must be locked up in a Car Safe.

We need all Public places to be Car Free Zones.


66 posted on 03/11/2018 7:48:29 PM PDT by Kickass Conservative ( An Armed Society is a Polite Society. An Unarmed Society is North Korea.)
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To: Trump20162020

What we really need, John Boy, is prison time for Lefties who fail to report crimes by crazy people in order to collect government checks.


67 posted on 03/11/2018 7:49:47 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (<img src="http://i.imgur.com/WukZwJP.gif" width=800>)
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To: Trump20162020

........ This whole so called “Mental Illness” thing is a clever trap .... It should be limited ONLY to those who fall under “Abnormal Propensities for Violence” and not those who have eating disorders or some other inane phobia and such.


68 posted on 03/11/2018 7:50:39 PM PDT by R_Kangel ( "A Nation of Sheep ..... Will Beget ..... a Nation Ruled by Wolves.")
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To: bennowens

The ACLU was responsible for that.


69 posted on 03/11/2018 7:50:52 PM PDT by cradle of freedom
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To: rlmorel

Hey RL...

This little psychopath was already UNDER mental health care. He was also on the radar of every Alphabet Agency at local, country, state level, and the FBI too.

He should have been put on the no-buy list in NICS the moment he was expelled from school for making terroristic threats, and after the 45+ LEO visits to his home foe domestic violence.

Every single f***tard in that chain of agencies did no do their job, and this loser managed to buy a gun legally because of them incompetence. And they’re still employed, too...

Not to mention the four deputies - the guys with body armor and guns - peeing themselves outside. Local LEOs “blew past them” as they went in (their words, not mine).

THAT is what is deliberately being left out of the discussion, and what we need to repeat over and over again.


70 posted on 03/11/2018 7:57:07 PM PDT by NFHale (The Second Amendment - By Any Means Necessary.)
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To: NFHale

Oh, I’m with you NFHale...I was just trying to be a little sarcastic!


71 posted on 03/11/2018 8:06:51 PM PDT by rlmorel (Leftists: American Liberty is the egg that requires breaking to make their Utopian omelette)
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To: Trump20162020

I thinkd also need a mental health registry for journalists.


72 posted on 03/11/2018 8:10:17 PM PDT by Retvet (Retvet)
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To: montag813
Um... because there are a zillion of us on them and we're made BETTER by taking them? I'm on prozac, but I will never be at the murderer level, let alone mass murderer.

I'm on them because I know my mental state was bad due to depression (never homicidal!) - in the depths of my illness I knew my thinking was 'off'. You're getting confused by the analysis of statistics.

73 posted on 03/11/2018 8:10:37 PM PDT by Patriotic1 (Dic mihi solum facta, domina - Just the facts, ma'am)
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To: Patriotic1
Um... because there are a zillion of us on them and we're made BETTER by taking them? I'm on prozac

Columbine, Virginia Tech and Sandy Hook killers were on a combo of Ritalin and Paxil (and one other w Lanza). NONE were on Prozac. That combo creates "rare side effects" of "suicidal" and "homocidal ideation." The VT killer and baby-killer Andrea Yates were on Effexor, in combo with others. Pfizer was sued by Russell Yates and was forced to add "homocidal ideation" to its label.

74 posted on 03/11/2018 8:18:26 PM PDT by montag813
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To: Retvet

That would be easy ... just copy&paste.


75 posted on 03/11/2018 8:20:03 PM PDT by TigersEye (13 Russian Facebook trolls ... and a Siberian partridge in a Russian Olive tree.)
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To: Trump20162020

if we had a mental health criteria for gun owning; very few gov‘t employees would be able to own guns


76 posted on 03/11/2018 8:36:15 PM PDT by vooch (America First Drain the Swamp)
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To: SpaceBar

I sort of think everyone is mentally unstable depending on what time of the day it is.

Once we start we are on a slippery slope, so lets not go there.


77 posted on 03/11/2018 8:36:50 PM PDT by Nextrush (Freedom is everybody's business: Remember Pastor Niemoller)
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To: Trump20162020
In the Soviet Union, if you were a Christian or against the government you were deemed "mentally ill" and committed to an insane asylum where they used drugs to destroy your brain (and your "anti-socialist" tendencies).

That's where these things lead.

78 posted on 03/11/2018 8:45:51 PM PDT by Gritty (Leftists make no bones about what they think of you. They hate you. Act accordingly.-Kurt Schlichter)
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To: montag813

The phrase ‘psychotropic drugs’ covers prozac and many others.


80 posted on 03/11/2018 8:54:23 PM PDT by Patriotic1 (Dic mihi solum facta, domina - Just the facts, ma'am)
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