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Message: <blockquote data-quote="10Seconds" data-source="post: 2136952" data-attributes="member: 24432">This article brings up a good debate subject and a really touchy issue.  After the mass killings at Auora and Newtown, the gun lobby, NRA, et al starting saying we need to focus on the mental health issue not the gun issue.  Here a state is trying to take guns out of the hands of felons and mentally ill and people are up in arms over it.  I agree that there is certainly potiential for abuse.  But such a program, especially the felon part, could end up saving a bunch of lives.  And if we can prevent a looney from committing another mass shooting, it will help a ton in the battle for the rest of us keeping our gun rights.  To me, I could support such a program for felons and mentally ill under certain circumstance such as:1. Person must be adjudicated mentally incompetent by a court after a hearing.2. Must be mechanism in place to protect ownership rights of the guns, and not a forfeiture situation.3. Definitions must be clarified so that a person who is legally entitled to possess guns and lives in the same household can still have their guns.Of course, any such system cannot work with out a gun registry, which I certainly do not support, so its a moot issue for now.  My point in saying this is that it is a decent idea to try and keep the really mentally ill away from guns.</blockquote>