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From: Sh@dow.br
On Thu, 29 Mar 2018 18:47:23 -0400, moviePig
wrote:
>On 3/29/2018 6:23 PM, Shadow wrote:
>> On Thu, 29 Mar 2018 20:50:12 +0000 (UTC), RW NRA Gunloon
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Swiss authorities have a list of about 2,000 individuals they suspect of
>>> being willing to commit shootings. All of them are frequently approached
>>> by authorities, along with psychologists, and are forced to hand over
>>> their weapons immediately or are barred from purchasing new ones.
>>
>> That's probably the most important reason for the extreme
>> difference.
>> The Swiss State does background checks and psych and medical
>> evaluations on ALL it's citizens.
>> I would have thought those numbers would be higher. Psychotics
>> make up a little over 1% of a population. Which would be almost
>> 100.000 people (half of which would be male). They are probably exempt
>> from military service, and hence also not allowed to own guns.
>> Stop the loony's "right to buy guns" and the problem
>> disappears.
>
>'Loony'. Hmm. The devil is in the definition...
Personally I think sane individual SHOULD be able to purchase
guns.
Psychotics and extreme sociopaths are very easy to detect. Do
you have trouble at all identifying them in the newsgroups ? So much
easier for a trained psychiatrist.
There will always be the "fringe" individuals who might or
might not become violent under certain conditions, but I'm sure the
homicide numbers will plunge if the US takes mandatory mental
screening seriously.
Anyone disagree ?
There you go ... easy, huh ?
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