I keep hearing after every mass shooting that guns need to be kept out of the hands of the mentally

[SummerSnow]

ill.

So after masses of people are killed that's when they are determined to be mentally ill? You cannot psychologically evaluate a dead person. Even if a person who never saw a Psychiatrist or a Psychotherapist can still be mentally ill. Never diagnosed. What do we do? However, only certain people are called mentally ill in mass shootings, the others are just called evil terrorist.

[LonePirate]

1. Maybe we need annual psych evals for all gun owners.

You fail then you lose your guns.

[SummerSnow]

2. I agree.

[Hoyt]

3. Someone with a bunch of guns, ballistic vests, a dishonorable discharge has some issues.

Considering what guns have done to society and families, that seems to be enough to label someone as questionable and perhaps unstable. But, the NRA, Nazis and racists like those who marched at Charlottesville or those who hide their hatred, people with facebook pages like the one below, and the like, tell me I am wrong.

[lindysalsagal]

4. Newsweek: 1 in 5 americans are mentally ill (And the sane ones don't have the guns!)

http://www.newsweek.com/nearly-1-5-americans-suffer-mental-illness-each-year-230608

Every year, about 42.5 million American adults (or 18.2 percent of the total adult population in the United States) suffers from some mental illness, enduring conditions such as depression, bipolar disorder or schizophrenia, statistics released Friday reveal.

The data, compiled by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA), also indicate that approximately 9.3 million adults, or about 4 percent of those Americans ages 18 and up, experience “serious mental illness” – that is, their condition impedes day-to-day activities, such as going to work.

This data does not diverge greatly from the last SAMHSA report, released in 2012, which found that 45.9 million American adults, 20 percent of this demographic, experienced mental illness at least once annually. (Though there is a 1.8 percent difference, the statistics do have margins of error, and methods of compiling them are often revised, so this dip does not necessarily mean there has been a long-term decline in mental illness.)

The SAMHSA paper comes amid increasing scrutiny of the ability of America’s health care system to handle issues of mental illness. For example, the American Mental Health Counselors Association released a study earlier this week claiming that adults with mental illness who live in those states electing against expanding Medicaid under Obamacare will be denied insurance. According to the study, care could be denied to up to 4 million patients.

[Squinch]

5. We just rescinded the law that keeps guns out of the hands of the mentally ill.

We had one. Republicans took it away.