>>>>This guy was a complete nutcase. If a complete nutcase wants to buy a gun, maybe the authorities should be notified rather than simply handing him one.
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>>>Great, so then, since I took depression medicine in college years ago, I will have the po-po knocking on my door next time I want to upgrade my shotgun...
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>>Are you seeing anything I'm writing? Ok, one more time. The past should mean nothing. Everybody who wants to buy a gun should have to go through training, evaluation (psychological), and licensing. If you are unstable now, you don't get a gun.
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>>I'm sorry that some innocent person might get misread and be barred from buying a gun, but anything that might at least be a step toward keeping guns out of the hands of the likes of Cho is worth it, imho.
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>But where do you draw the line? When does an unstable mind "go away", as opposed to goes into remission? Depression is not a mood or a phase... it's a disease caused by a chemical imbalance. Once you have it, you always have it. You just learn to live with it and deal with it.

Whenever you want to buy a gun you get evaluated. If you are ok at that point in time, then you get to buy the gun. If not, then you don't, and you try again another time if you like.

Sorry, but I don't feel an awful lot of sympathy if a person, according to the evaluation of a qualified professional, wants revenge against the world, and is refused a gun.

And yes, I know that someone could buy a gun and later on become unstable, but you do what you can one step at a time.