Do you support clinically depressed owning firearms?

[HomerJS]

I wonder if the OP would post something about blacks and firearms. The ignorance of the general public regarding health issues is staggering and about as damning as racist attitudes
from a century ago.

Yes, it's ok for people with depression to own firearms.

Clinical depression is an abnormailty/sickness. Odd you equate that with being black.

 

[Doppel]

Clinical depression is an abnormailty/sickness. Odd you equate that with being black.

Being in a wheel chair is also an abnormality/sickness.

 

[werepossum]

To be honest depression is greatly over diagnosed. In America we have a bad habit of trying to throw medication at anything and everything.

Now roughly half of you want to take away constitutionally protected rights from people who where prescribed medication for depression.

That is alarming.

That is a good point.

EDIT: We test drugs pretty thoroughly, and I'd bet that the majority of depression medications do not cause psychosis and/or violence. For those associated with bouts of psychosis, it's going to be very difficult to accurately determine if the drug actually causes psychosis in some people for some as yet unknown reason, or if the psychosis is merely not stopped by the drug because the initial diagnosis of depression was incorrect and the doctors were merely throwing something against the wall to see if it would stick. If however a drug has a significant correlation with psychosis, violence or rage, it's appropriate to not allow someone on that drug to possess firearms.

 

[mikeymikec]

Surely if you had a rule saying that if someone has <insert vague/broad term here about someone's mental capacity> then they can't have a firearm, people are even less inclined to seek medical attention because they fear they might be disqualified from owning a firearm?

 

[Pr0d1gy]

I support any non-felon owning a firearm of any type. If you can manage to stay out of trouble in a country where literally almost everything is illegal, you can certainly safely handle a gun.

 

[Spungo]

Your knowledge of depression is vast and thorough.

I've been in a hospital twice for attempted suicide from drug overdose. I didn't pay for it either time. Guess who did.

 

[Hayabusa Rider]

Clinical depression is an abnormailty/sickness. Odd you equate that with being black.

It's not odd that you miss the point. I voted that this shouldn't be a disqualification. How about you? BTW see the wheelchair post.

 

[Hayabusa Rider]

That is a good point.

EDIT: We test drugs pretty thoroughly, and I'd bet that the majority of depression medications do not cause psychosis and/or violence. For those associated with bouts of psychosis, it's going to be very difficult to accurately determine if the drug actually causes psychosis in some people for some as yet unknown reason, or if the psychosis is merely not stopped by the drug because the initial diagnosis of depression was incorrect and the doctors were merely throwing something against the wall to see if it would stick. If however a drug has a significant correlation with psychosis, violence or rage, it's appropriate to not allow someone on that drug to possess firearms.

There needs to be a scientific basis for an exclusion. Obviously ignorance is the preferred mode for some.