Possibly. I still go back to our irresponsible culture of it. But there's de jure, which is what you just declared, and then there's de facto, which reflects more the reality:
Of course, then there's those who have a history of ongoing mentally illness who don't need to even bother trying to buy their own weapons because mommy and daddy celebrate their unrestricted Second Amendment Right and offer them free access to the theirs:
History suggests, however, that
psychiatrists are inefficient gatekeepers in this regard. Data supporting the predictive value of psychiatric diagnosis in matters of gun violence is thin at best. Psychiatric diagnosis is largely an observational tool, not an extrapolative one. Largely for this reason, research dating back to the 1970s suggests that psychiatrists using clinical judgment are not much better than laypersons at predicting which individual patients will commit violent crimes and which will not.
Clearly, my point is that this crap is bad enough without us shrugging at the diagnosed mentally-ill and pretending that they simply can't buy guns....cuz the law say's so. Five years after Sandy Hook,
mental health care providers are waiting for promised boosts in funding, and many families are still battling insurance companies to cover their children’s services. It seems to me that we have a combination of problems, all of which we can't be burdened with properly addressing.
