Should everyone over the age of 18, who has a clean mental health record be required to carry a gun?

Doc

I am professionally trained. Guns are tools. I support the second Ammendment, but I do not own a gun nor have a desire to own one. I think that while everyone should have the right to own, only those who've been trained should be allowed, ie: You want to exercise your right, get trained. Quality gun control is being able to hit your target, one round, one kill.

yupchagee

1) I would disqualify those with criminal records.
2) It should be encouraged, not required.

Got Shoes?

We should try this in Iraq first. Let's bring our troops home and hand out guns to the civilians.

If it works there, we can think about it here at home.

DOOM

No. I think that's a choice people need to make for themselves.

Dawn-Marie

NO! Way to much room for error and you don't want women with PMS all running around with guns!

CJohn317

I don't like the "required" part of your question. "Allowed" would be much more acceptable. If everyone is "allowed" to carry and are "allowed" the to use deadly force; the criminals won't know who is carrying and who is not. That would definitely give them cause for pause...who knows, maybe they'll change their mind.

Christina T

Well, i don't believe that everyone should be REQUIRED to carry a gun, but I do believe it should be greatly encouraged. Everyone should have the capability to defend themselves, but it should be a personal choice. You have to take into account, that even people with sound mental records may, under pressure, not think and pull a gun when its not needed.
Thats why it should be something that people CHOOSE to do, that way they can take the time to be properly educated without being rushed.
(in short, no.)

Hmmmm.....skillful statisticians are employed by people with pro-gun agendas create these biased reports.

Ask any Police Chief of a city of any size whether they favor this approach. Not likely. Why....it is only a fantasy of the right wingers that the world with guns on everyones hip is truly a safer and more sane world.

I think there are more reasonable ways to control the crime rate. Better education systems, decriminalization of drugs to take out the profit, protection of our domestic jobs to increase the number of liviing wage jobs so less turn to crime, and a better teaching of right and wrong in the schools and at home.

jenn

absolutely not." I" could get a clean mental record right now but tomorrow i could go totally psyco and shoot somebody. i think that would just be silly 2 give 18 year olds a gun. If I had a gun when I was 18 I would probably B in prison right now.

srena

No.
1) Forcing someone to carry an unwanted weapon is just as bad as taking away the right to carry a weapon.
2) The testing of mental illness is not black and white. There are a lot of gray areas. Mental illness is not a constant state. Just because I am sane now, doesn't mean I will be sane in 6 months from now. Are you willing to get every person retested every year?
3) Who would decide who is sane enough?

hippy

LOL noone should be encouraged to carry guns regardless of their known mental status. The guy at Va Tech flew under the radar and yet after the brutal murder of 32 people it was found he had severe issues. Point being the guy who appears normal today might be the guy that shoots an entire neighborhood tomorrow.

fr_chuck

Maybe a max limit also, I help at a old folks home and a few men there think it is still WWII and I am a german guard at a prison camp, so I don't really want them to have a gun.

Maricus S

Yea, I think so cause it's not like we'll go crazy and shoot everybody

Clark H

of course you should. because the people who are going to shoot others aren't going to follow the law anyway.

Negative

nascarfan7677

test cities? lmfao, you obviously wouldn't be one of those mentaly stabe people

BJC

don't know about "requiring" it but it should be an optional, voluntary program. i would have no problem with it at all. maybe if i had a gun, i wouldn't have gotten robbed at gunpoint at my job a month ago. :(

bryandougherty300

Back-up your BS statement. Which "test-cities" are you speaking of? This sure as hell wouldn't fly in the good old US of A.

no. the government would never be allowed to force the people to do anything that drastic. at least not in the US.

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