GUN CONTROL THE NRA WILL ALLOW

The following essay is submitted by an individual using the pseudonym "A Concerned Citizen."



In the United States, the question of gun control is a difficult one to answer.  The 2nd amendment of the United States Constitution recognizes  the right of every citizen to bear arms. 2nd amendment advocates believe that this constitutional right is more or less absolute. These advocates are concerned that any limit on the right to bear arms -  virtually any arms  -  would lead to a “slippery slope” that would ultimately result in the erosion of the rights that the Second Amendment makes so clear.

So many Americans believe this that it is politically difficult if not impossible to impose limits on the ability to access weapons that would help prevent massacres like the one that happened in Aurora Colorado, where a deranged man entered a movie theater and  a shot at the audience with a semi automatic weapon.

2nd amendment advocates believe that this sort of thing is just the price we have to be willing to pay to live in a free society – with  “freedom” being defined as the ability to freely access, own, and use firearms of any kind.

There is a simple solution that will help to keep firearms away from crazy people while allowing sane people to access and own all of the firearms they wish. It is called The Minnesota multiphasic personality inventory (MMPI).  

The MMPI that can be given to anyone to determine if that person or a psychopathology that makes them dangerous.  The MMPI is already being used to evaluate candidates for secret and top-secret security clearance and the test is already required for many positions with in federal agencies that involve extensive responsibility for life and property, including the Department of Defense, CIA, and federal aviation administration -  And it it has worked out fairly well in those circumstances to screen out for example potential air traffic controllers who might be tempted to cause it airplanes to collide from those who would not do so.  

The solution to the American problem of gun control is to screen likely dangerous candidates from those who pose no danger to society. The MMPI can be used to separate out the dangerous from the non dangerous.

Recently an employee in New York City who had been fired took the gun and shot some coworkers near the Empire State building. This man wasn't crazy. He was just very angry. There is nothing that we can do to stop this sort of thing from happening. However, we can prevent and should prevent James Eagan Holmes – The man who killed all those people in Aurora, Colorado, from obtaining the weapons he used to commit mass murder.

These tests will need to be evaluated by trained professionals.  but the costs associated with administering the MMPI to anyone seeking to purchase a  firearm is well worth the benefit of preventing mass killings perpetrated by sociopaths.