Find "Disqualified or Prohibited People" in any Constitution. This is a concept antithetical to America. Inherent rights don't get disqualified or prohibited.The industry, though, has been working to improve background checks for some time. NSSF’s FixNICS initiative was initially launched in 2013. Through the end of August of 2020, the number of disqualifying mental health records submitted to NICS increased by 262 percent to about 6 million, up from about 1.7 million, in December 2012. This NSSF-backed legislation has provided the means to collect more reliable and accurate information for the NICS system, which contributes to preventing disqualified or prohibited people from gaining access to firearms.
This is the evil of Eugenics. You're mentally unfit, therefore you have no rights. We need the State to police mental fitness --bingo-- database you all.Mental Illness Awareness Week started Oct. 4. Many groups across the nation are bringing people and resources together to try to shake the stigma of discussing this very important topic. Too often, individuals who are suffering from mental illness or a short-term crisis feel alone and without support. The NSSF prioritizes mental health and has partnered with the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention to bring awareness and reduce suicides in the United States. The collaboration between the two groups started because the industry recognized that about half of suicides in the United States are by firearm. As the nation’s largest suicide prevention organization, AFSP raises awareness, provides resources, educates the public, and has chapters in every state. The NSSF promotes and values these programs that are designed to keep firearms out of the hands who shouldn’t have them. That includes those who might be suffering a mental health crisis as well as prohibited individuals and unsupervised children.
NSSF is virtue signalling and damaging RKBA in the process. Who are you to impose laws on people to help them. Life has risk. You might not be having a good day. You might have some dark thoughts. Enter the government database to save you?! Are you serious? We're attempting to legislate a spiritual problem? How about boosting churches or charities who might help people focus on what they should be grateful for? How about building a spiritual army to deal with a spiritual problem?
Are we all in favor of the 1993 Brady bill that established NICS? How's that working out for us?
