(03-05-2018 03:08 PM)arkstfan Wrote:  Passing a basic skills written test and live handling test for me is not unreasonable. Then I can get a nifty laminated card with my photo and a seller can swipe or scan it to see I'm OK.

If I start having seizures or my vision deteriorates my health care provider has an 800 number to call and my license is suspended. If I disagree, I can have a hearing to challenge the decision in any county in Arkansas and in some counties I can even have my choice between multiple locations. If I disagree with that decision, I can appeal to the circuit court.

If I'm being treated for hearing voices telling me to kill myself or kill other people or I become otherwise incapacitated to safely operate a firearm, there should be a similar process.

Agree with all of the above.

Quote:You really want to bring down the numbers, you need an affordable and accessible health care system. Want to cut homicides, then you have to do something about drug addiction because many of those homicides are related to control of distribution rights or the commission of crimes to fund addiction.

Because we're trying to guarantee everything to everybody, certain populations are excluded. Right now, that is mental health. This is a crisis. Until we guarantee the minimum, not the maximum and not single payer, to the general population, we will never be able to properly treat critical populations like the mentally ill. There should be a means tested public safety net and individual plans tailored after that by private sources.

Quote:We have taken the single phase approach to drugs. We are going to interdict as many as possible. Well basic economics come into play. Constraining the supply increases the cost which increases the profit per unit delivered and sold. This is the richest country in the world..... You can't price drugs out of use in the US.

You have to attack demand and that means treatment and the reality is treatment is hard to obtain and very expensive. It is cheaper to remain untreated.

Why not both? The vast majority of illegal drugs comes from the south. Build a wall and place the military along it and supply will go way, way down.

As for demand and treatment. Again, this is a critical population that has been neglected due to the current single payer, universal trends in healthcare.

Bottom line. We could severely restrict supply if we wanted to, and we could design a healthcare industry with the flexibility to treat critical populations, if we wanted to.

But, political, ideological PC BS prevents us.