adult life skills, I'm not comfortable putting a gun in their hands. For their safety as well as everyone else's.

What's the worst that could happen? LOL

What's the worst that could happen? LOL

Someone would now have to actually pursue revocation in a court of law, with the allegedly incompetent person
able to challenge the proceedings, all while having the right to counsel- IOW, they couldn't be unilaterally stripped
of the right to possess firearms.

I could see how this would be problematic for those of a controlling mindset...

That sort don't care for awkward questions, as they raise uncomfortable issues...

LMFAO

that don't make them a danger to society. Let's not curtail anyone's rights nor perpetuate stereotypes.

There has to be documentation from a medical professional that the individual is incapable of managing their affairs. Most often it is due to mental retardation. I think those individuals are at greater danger of hurting themselves or when law inforcement gets involved with them being hurt. No, I don't think they are mass shooters or inherently violent but I also am not comfortable with someone with the cognitive ability of a 10-12 year old buying a gun.

After all, they COULD be a danger to themselves, or others. Good enough reason for some, it seems.

Now where did I put that sarcasm thingy again?

Revoking the rights of everyone with any sort of mental disability as if they were a danger to themselves or others is fundamentally unjust. People with nonviolent disabilities are more likely to be *victims* of violence, and less likely to perpetrate it, than the average citizen, as the ACLU pointed out.

We already have judicial hearings to determine whether a person is considered mentally incompetant, and therefore should not be allowed to own guns. In these the defendant enjoys all the protections of due process, right to examine evidence and question witnesses, and the burden of proof falls on the govt. to justify revoking the right. Note that this process remains unaltered by the rule revokation.

This rule would have completely side-stepped that process, no due process, no judicial hearing. All 75K of affected folks would be lumped together with no distinction among degrees of mental handicap, and their rights revoked with the scrawl of a pen. They would have to beg and grovel before the govt. to get their rights restored after the fact. It was a horrible policy and I'm glad it's gone.