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Message: <blockquote data-quote="abajaj11" data-source="post: 2085362" data-attributes="member: 3553">Good question! IMHO, very strict standards have to be set as to who is submitted to NICs. Very few mentally ill people are dangerously insane. Of course it "seems reasonable" that their information must be submitted to NICs. But I think it is more nuanced than that. The problem is: there are no reliable predictors of dangerous behaviour...in other words hundreds of people with similar psychological indicators lead perfectly peaceful lives and then one person with those indicators goes nuts. we simply cannot predict violent or insane behaviour.To predict who is going to misuse a gun without any prior criminal behaviour on their part is dangerous and not scientific at all. So the only people who should be in NICs are people with known and proven (convicted) behaviour...violent felons and such like.  There are a very small percentage of people whose illnesses  are dangerous to themselves or who have a very fragmented sense of reality....proven and established. IMHO such people are less than 1% of the mentally ill. these can be in the NICs database as well, even if they have no violent priors. But deciding who they are must be done very very carefully. Just my 2 cents. <img src="/images/smilies/smile.png"  class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)" data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>