Lawmaker wants checks on private gun sales

[AtheistCrusader]

48. I didn't say the NRA position was reasonable or more reasonable. I said it was the opposite.

Unreasonable is an antonym of reasonable.

"The people who have their gun rights removed because they are dangerously mentally ill do so for causes that are not the kind of problem you get over like the flu. People who are for example schizophrenic can control their problems - sometimes - with medication. That is the kind of mental illness that Jared Loughner was diagnosed with; the case I cited, bi-polar difficulties, one suffers with for life. The problems with people either having medication need to be changed and adjusted, or discontinuing taking it, or being unable to obtain it because they lose their jobs and/or insurance funding are significant for this group of people. People don't have their Alzheimer's or other dementia 'go away'; most of these illnesses only get worse."

Bi-polar symptoms can go away or be managed away in some cases. Most have to medicate for extended periods, possibly for life, but in some cases, for long periods of time they can have zero symptoms. There's no known cure, and it may never be 'gone', but symptoms can and do fade for some people. With medication, and sometimes just with lifestyle changes. Also, in many cases, after years of treatment, they will discover the person was misdiagnosed, and they don't have bi-polar issues at all.

I think it's critical that they always have a path, the opportunity, to achieve some degree of normalcy. That includes rights restoration after they were removed via due process. If they don't at least have the possibility, to what end do they struggle?