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14. I'd like to see some of these gun people submit to

psych exams. I'm pretty sure a number would not pass.

Actually I wouldn't mind a psych screening for propensity toward violence before gun purchases, as long as everyone submitted. But to determine a priori that people who have the courage to seek treatment for depression and other mental illness should be treated as second class citizens, with no evidence that they are remotely violent, is ridiculous and violates the 14th Amendment. (Yes folks, the Constitution actually extends to more than the Second Amendment). Seeking psychiatric help for an illness does not make a person violent. That has to do with other characteristics--whether mental illness or something else--that propels people to harm others. And many of those people are the ones least likely to seek medical help. Some seem completely unhinged. When someone start threatening to kill government agents or gets angry over imaginary "gun grabbers"--one has to wonder whether they are fit to own deadly weapons.