Getting a gun without a background check and waiting period, processed by an FFL is a felony!

Actually, here in Texas, you can get a gun as a gift or buy a gun off a friend or family member and not have to go through a background check. In California I'm sure you do, but not in Texas.

He lives in CA. The only transfer you can do without an FFL here is between husband and wife. Not even parent - child or sibling transfers are allowed, and definitely not friend to friend. And we still have a lot more violent crime than TX - whodathunkit?

Where the hell you gettn' friends that just "give" you guns in a f**kn' parking lot??? You sure it wasn't a trade for a bag of coke or some crack?? Just sayn'....

At a certain level of wealth, gift among friends have a different character.

Still more law there. You have to prove the gift was given to specifically avoid the background check and the person recieving the gift has to be prohibited from owning in the first place.

That clause only works for Hillary, for everyone else they still only have to prove that the law was broken, not that there was an intent to break the law.

I cant disagree with all if this

Even if we could Properly treat Mental Health, where's the line as far as use of/access to one's Records of that treatment...

and beyond that sometimes the difference between 'Functioning' and 'Dysfunctional' is a person's dose of medication or the stress of their life...

I can be a perfectly wonderful happy person on Tuesday when my doctor signs off on my 2019 Drug script, and apply for a Gun on Wednesday, I'm Legally armed before Thanksgiving...

if I get drunk on New Years and that champagne interacts with my Meds in such a way that I 'break' immediately, or decide I'm smart enough to not need the pills any more... Come Valentine's Day and my Girl decides she's had enough of 'un-medicated me' bad things have the potential to happen... but as long as I've picked up my next 90 days worth of Pills there's still no paper trail to show i'm crazy (again)

Yes Mental Health needs to be stepped up, but making it a factor on Every Gun purchase will do more to erode medical Privacy than it will stop 'gun crime'

It's not a factor on gun purchase. It shouldn't be. I'm more thinking about school shooters, kids who have hit rock bottom and feel like they should take everyone else's life just for a cheap thrill.

Which mental health initiatives?

Just as left field but none the less accurate.

Wouldn't make the statement any less accurate or any less left field

There is a moral stance in this

You can't dictate morality

Possibly since not all murder is wrong. Some times murder is neccessary. We just call it self defense though.

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