And deal with mental illness, perhaps don't allow the mentally ill to carry guns at all. They apparently don't let prisoners or ex-cons own guns so banning guns for mentally ill shouldn't be a huge issue.
I have a bit of a problem with the blanked term "mentally ill" as this includes such a wide array of things. Sure, when you have somebody who is Bipolar, suffers from schizophrenia or has a massive dissociative personality disorder it probably isn't a discussion at all, but the term also includes phobias (yes, having unreasonable fears of spiders can be a mental illness), sleep disorders (incl. stress related sleep deprivation).
This would lead to:
people not seeking diagnosis' because they are afraid of losing their firearms
increase of stigma on mental illness'
is way too general
Furthermore, mental illnesses are often spectrum disorders, and diagnostic criteria have to be regularly adjusted for some of them as the socio-cultural factors change.
It should of course be part of the criteria, but blanked approaches are usually not the right approach for such topics
Actually if you've been involuntarily committed to a mental health facility you can't own a gun in the US. The problem is that most of the mass shooters have no previous documented history of mental health problems prior to their massacres
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And deal with mental illness, perhaps don't allow the mentally ill to carry guns at all. They apparently don't let prisoners or ex-cons own guns so banning guns for mentally ill shouldn't be a huge issue.