I know how much you guys enjoy sitting in your desk chairs and beating your arm rests, crowing about how if only liberals would go away the world would be so much better.

But, decisions about what powers the State should have over individuals require more thought and less right wing hyperventilating. Our Founding Fathers put a lot of thought into it and were cautious about eroding individual rights (read the Declaration and Constitution and you’ll see what I mean).

Conservatives think the answer to everything is to “round up the bad people”. Until it gets abused and all of a sudden they get labeled as “the bad people”. The Devil is, quite literally, in the details.

Dangerous people need to be addressed, but how you identify them and what you do with them requires more thought than armrest pounding. Humanity tried giving the State the kind of power you are proscribing, it was called the Soviet Union, and it didn’t work out too well.

Do you think a person with deep depression should have a gun?

In the Brady Bill it was someone who was sent to a mental hospital or recommended by a court.

Anyone who’s ever taken Prozac or Valium (or related medication)? Anybody who’s ever seen a mental health professional? Anybody whose ever checked ‘yes’ to a question on a form asking whether they’ve ever felt depressed or anxious?