Focus on the mentally ill

Dear Mr. Farah,

Why is it that, concerning the firearm issue, the politicians have targeted the firearms instead of the mentally ill people?

Why not require a physician or two as agreed to keep a list of people they think would be at risk to themselves or the public? Independent medical boards could be set up to adjudicate a final decision. Everyone in a residence would have to prove inaccessibility to guns by the patient. It just seems cheaper and less intrusive to the entire public. Almost every attacker has been seen previously by a medical doctor, from everything that I've heard.

Two basic elements, and they chose the wrong one.

Caroline Summersett