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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]if you feel like a proposal like being required to carry liability insurance is "punitive" then you should get on board with measures to keep guns out of the hands of criminals and the mentally ill to drive down liability risk.

It's astounding that the party that preaches "personal responsibility" completely abandons that principle where it comes to irresponsible gun ownership.[/quote]
I’m all for keeping guns out of hands of criminals and mentally ill. One way would be to increase the circumstances under which a person is added to NICS. Has anyone proposed this? For example, I would like to see anyone prescribed psychotropics be included, whether they fill the prescription or not.[/quote]

I would add anyone with a history of domestic or other violence.  As for mental illness, as I understand it, the bar is currently so high that one has to be found legally insane in a court.  There is a lot that has to change.  There have been many instances of people with history of mental illness or other red flag issues still able to legally purchase guns because the system is preventing these people from being added to the system for background checks.  Not to mention, there are still far too many instances where gun sales are permitted without even requiring background checks (private sales).[/quote]

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