Yeager, who is going to pay for these psychiatric evaluations, who is going to do them, and how long is the wait going to be to have one?
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The gun owners would be forced to pay. Problem: The cost would be outrageous, because of the liability involved. Besides, I already have to pay $500+ for a decent gun, $200 for concealed carry class, $200 total to apply, around $100 for the permit itself, and another fee to renew. Any psychiatrist or psychologist willing to open themselves up to the liability involved is going to charge THOUSANDS of dollars.
No psychiatrist or psychologist is going to be willing to do those evaluations because the liability costs would be prohibitive. Problem: The first time a psychiatrist or psychologist "lets one slip through the cracks" they'll be sued for BILLIONS. Problem: To prevent "letting one slip through the cracks", NO ONE will pass the evaluation, the failure to pass rate will be 90% PLUS. Problem: Now honest sane citizens are prevented from owning a weapon and their rights under the 2nd Amendment violated, so the courts are flooded, and rightly so, with citizens suing to get their rights back.
The wait for evaluation would be an eternity. Problem: There aren't enough psychologists and psychiatrists to handle the work load, IF any of them were stupid enough to open themselves up to the liability of "letting one slip through the cracks". Problem: The wait for an evaluation would be eternal, preventing honest law abiding sane citizens from purchasing weapons.
Back to the drawing board Yeager, you ain't even close on this one.
The system needs to be improved, it failed. The two girls he "stalked" did not follow through and press charges. They couldn't be forced to, and rightly so. And since no charges were filed he was never tried and found guilty. That part worked. However, the "second offense" should have been a flag. That, combined with having been hospitalized for an evaluation and declared to be a hazard to himself, SHOULD have been enough for him to have been entered into the system as "adjudicated mentally defective", thereby preventing him from legally purchasing a firearm. HOWEVER, that likely would not have prevented him from either getting a firearm or firearms illegally, or making/purchasing some other weapon, possibly a homemade bomb.
