"Gunner" wrote in message
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On Fri, 28 Sep 2007 06:45:28 -0400, "Ed Huntress"
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"Gunner" wrote in message
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On Wed, 26 Sep 2007 18:47:40 -0700, Too_Many_Tools
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Good....I have always maintained that a psych test should be the
requirement for gun purchasing and for continued gun ownership.

If you have the right to own a gun, you also have the responsibility
to use it properly...no excuses.

If you cannot handle the responsibility, you have no right to own a
gun.

TMT..a card carrying NRA member


So if they pull your guns, then you will also have no problem with
them also removing your first amendment rights.

So, you're in favor of arming mental defectives and psychotics, eh?

Im quite in favor of a court hearing and a judgment from them and a
panel of professionals, then a court order being the arbiter.

You evidently are in favor of having your rights removed by fiat and a
phone call, ne?

What "fiat"? Someone who is "adjudicated as a mental defective," and who is
thereby restricted in some action and who objects, is going to have the
decision made by a court in every state. If they don't object, they could be
adjudicated by a board or commission. If they decide later that they object
(possibly because they don't mind being declared mentally unable to care for
themselves but who think they shouldn't be denied purchase of a gun, then
the courts have to decide what constitutes mental defect. The definitions,
as often happens, will be decided by case law. In other words, the person
will get his court hearing.

Those adjudications generally fall into three categories: criminal cases,
which are already based on a trial; control of one's estate, in which a
court makes the decision if there is an objection by the restricted person;
and confinement to a mental institution, which, in every state, requires a
court hearing if the restricted person objects.

In other words, some board or committee may declare a person mentally
incompetent, but a court has to seal the deal unless the affected person
does not object.

If you're saying that it has to go through the courts even if the person
didn't object, then you're saying that mental defectives should have guns as
long as they don't let their case go to trial. In other words, if they're
declared mentally incompetent by a state mental health board and if they
don't object to the decision.

Great logic, Gunner. It's almost as good as skipping background checks at
gun shows. d8-)

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Ed Huntress