Gun Control and Mental Health

I wish there were a way to screen out crazies--and can we call them crazies without bringing the wrath of Khan down?--from having guns.  But there isn't.  Until you do something tragic and terrible and final you get to buy whatever you want.  In a democracy it's hard to do otherwise. The NRA says guns don't kill people, people kill people and I would extend that to "crazy" people kill people.  Every notable shooting, it was obvious the killer was crazy.  But how can you stop crazy people from buying guns? I mean, how would you even enforce that? Define crazy?  Is a crazy somebody who's on Adderall?  On Zoloft?  On Prozac? Ritalin? Because you're taking it for something. Is a crazy someone who's seeing a shrink or, more likely, someone who avoids shrinks?  And then what....we can't even get to a single payer health insurance system like the rest of the civilized world, are we going to agree to a central  registry of crazy?  And then, I think, even if you're certifiable, like that boy who killed the kids at Sandy Hook, even if he couldn't buy guns himself he could steal guns. No easy answer here.