another day, another mass shooting

momofthreeboys
Tue, 28 Aug 2018 16:14:12 +0000

Every state has laws, although varying slightly, around people with epilepsy and driving. Clearly that gets reported somehow. I can’t imagine we couldn’t have a similar system for firearm purchases…if you are prescribed or treated for specified mental illnesses no firearm for you and perhaps it should be no firearms in the living situation. If it’s not a HIPPA violation for states to monitor drivers and potential drivers with epilepsy, how can it be a violation of HIPPA to monitor specified mental illnesses and firearm purchases? While suicide is indeed sad, in my mind it is not the same as someone who purposefully goes to kill someone else - or ask that question of the parents of the two men killed by this guy if they feel the same about suicide as murder – bthat said the same mental illness prohibitions might also lower the suicide by firearm rate.