Thread: Licensing and mental illness

Much to think about here as firearms owners . . the guts of our system really is "we're all part of the system" and we all have a responsibility to all other firearms owners specifically and society in general to act if we think someone may harm another person with (or without for that matter) a firearm.

Having come across one violent death involving a firearm (that I couldn't have done anything about) it certainly sharpened up my awareness and determination to act should any similar situation present itself.

The mention of the French system is very interesting, with a relatively high number of firearms and firearms owners, their level of firearms incidents (suicides/murders etc as opposed to terrorism) is low (as I understand it) compared to the US and many other countries. The US really is not a firearms problem as such, its societal and goes very much along the lines of "I have a problem, power/force/violence is the way to solve problems".. The French are proactive in terms of mental health/anti-societal issues at both a police and civilian level.

The guts of it is that we all need to be alert of those among us with firearms who are not well or in a bad situation and as Mikee did, take some action. There will almost certainly never be the "right thing to do" so ones popularity is always going to be at stake.