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Target mentally ill, who 'have no rights,' instead of restricting guns
I would like to know why Connecticut has not seen fit to adopt Kendra’s Law for the treatment of the mentally ill, in view of the horrific shooting up in Newtown.
The guns in our state and in America are not the problem that the anti-gun factions are insisting on, it is the people who get a hold of these guns and misuse them.
Adam Lanza was clearly mentally ill, and his mother was incapable of handling him, and was in fact going to have him institutionalized, and he snapped when he found out about it.
Sixteen states, including California and Colorado, have Kendra’s Law, and the objectionists to it have sued against it 65 times in the courts, including the Supreme Court, and the laws have withstood these challenges as legitimate exercises of state powers under the 10th Amendment, allowing the states to require treatment of the mentally ill.
Banning guns under the circumstances of the Colorado, Arizona and Newtown shootings is simply letting the mentally ill dictate and control our rights and freedoms under the Constitution, an absurdity when one considers that the insane have no rights. Under Common Law Law of Contracts, for instance, contracts made with drunk or insane persons are void on the face of them, as such people are not considered under Common Law to be mentally competent to make contracts or other business dealings.
I have seen nothing in the Constitution superseding Common Law on the insane or the mentally incompetent, which is very likely why any and all challenges to Kendra’s Law have failed.
Connecticut should be adopting Kendra’s Law instead of penalizing law abiding gun owners who would never even think of committing such a crime. We should all be going after the federal government and the Congress to adopt a national Kendra’s Law to solve this problem of mental incompetents from getting guns, and include mental illness in the background checks on the federal level, and share this information with all Federal agencies, ending with the FBI, who supervise these background checks.
Jared Loughner would never have been cleared to buy a handgun in Arizona, had his rejection by the U.S. Army for mental reasons had been made available to the FBI.
Charles R. Shackford Jr.
West Haven
The guns in our state and in America are not the problem that the anti-gun factions are insisting on, it is the people who get a hold of these guns and misuse them.
Adam Lanza was clearly mentally ill, and his mother was incapable of handling him, and was in fact going to have him institutionalized, and he snapped when he found out about it.
Sixteen states, including California and Colorado, have Kendra’s Law, and the objectionists to it have sued against it 65 times in the courts, including the Supreme Court, and the laws have withstood these challenges as legitimate exercises of state powers under the 10th Amendment, allowing the states to require treatment of the mentally ill.
Banning guns under the circumstances of the Colorado, Arizona and Newtown shootings is simply letting the mentally ill dictate and control our rights and freedoms under the Constitution, an absurdity when one considers that the insane have no rights. Under Common Law Law of Contracts, for instance, contracts made with drunk or insane persons are void on the face of them, as such people are not considered under Common Law to be mentally competent to make contracts or other business dealings.
I have seen nothing in the Constitution superseding Common Law on the insane or the mentally incompetent, which is very likely why any and all challenges to Kendra’s Law have failed.
Connecticut should be adopting Kendra’s Law instead of penalizing law abiding gun owners who would never even think of committing such a crime. We should all be going after the federal government and the Congress to adopt a national Kendra’s Law to solve this problem of mental incompetents from getting guns, and include mental illness in the background checks on the federal level, and share this information with all Federal agencies, ending with the FBI, who supervise these background checks.
Jared Loughner would never have been cleared to buy a handgun in Arizona, had his rejection by the U.S. Army for mental reasons had been made available to the FBI.
Charles R. Shackford Jr.
West Haven
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