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"The text of the bill passed by the house is available on the THOMAS system. And none of the three versions include any mention of prescription drugs or clinical depression. "

You make interesting points, I shall peruse the text of the bill at the link that you have provided.

"Shouldn't we be more concerned with what it actually does require, rather than what it could, or might, or enitrely possibly may require?"

But that has always been the problem with many pieces of legislation, the law of unintended consequences, many pieces of legislation have started out with really good intentions, but what they actually end of being is something completely different.

I mean take a look at many of the social programs that were implemented in the 60's, they all had real good intentions, wasn't going to cost a lot of money, and were something that all decent people should be willing to support. Then take a look at what kind of monsters many of these programs have turned into over the last 30 years.

I find it advantages, when looking at legal questions, to not only look at the immediate problem in front of you that they propose to address, but to also look at the bigger picture of what they might be able to address in the future. Or, to put it another way, the road to hell is paved with good intentions.

"The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well-meaning but without understanding."
- Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis

Indeed, that's one of my favorite quotes when it comes to gun control.

But the thing is, we've passed a hell of a lot of mile markers with the 20,000 gun laws on the books today. And though there are people who may have a philosophical problem with preventing criminals, wife-beaters, and dangerously insane people from legally buying guns, the state of affairs we're faced with today has been defined by the other side of that philosophical debate.

And this bill is just part and parcel of the victory that the other side of that philosophical debate won years ago with GCA '68, the Brady Bill, and the National Instant Check System.

Or, to put it another way, the road to hell is paved with good intentions

I'd rather suffer the problems of 'too much' liberty for all than to suffer the evils inherent in the government trying to control the people.