Comments on: Ayres: People on Antipsychotics Should Have Their Gun Rights Paused

By: Gary Foster

Gary Foster — Thu, 25 Sep 2025 23:18:13 +0000

In reply to Gun rights are civil rights. good comment

By: Gary Foster

Gary Foster — Thu, 25 Sep 2025 23:17:40 +0000

In reply to Oldfogey. What an ignorant comment. You have no clue about mental illness or psychiatry.

By: Gary Foster

Gary Foster — Thu, 25 Sep 2025 23:16:30 +0000

In reply to top secret. Now there's a good comment

By: Gary Foster

Gary Foster — Thu, 25 Sep 2025 23:15:47 +0000

In reply to Dude. And you have any expertise to say its "reasonable" to deny gun rights due to medication prescriptions. Get a grip. You know nothing

By: Gary Foster

Gary Foster — Thu, 25 Sep 2025 23:14:01 +0000

I’ve been on anti depressants for 20 years. Stuff it up yours if you think that makes me dangerous. This is total BS. Just an excuse to take my guns away. THEN I’m dangerous. Most Seniors are on them. No gun rampages with them. I hate it when morons who know nothing about mental health come up with crap like this.

By: dagother

dagother — Fri, 05 Sep 2025 14:10:56 +0000

While the idea is good, it is hard to trust the people that would implement these rules. This could easily be abused. And like mentioned in the article with pilots it would stop people from going to get treatment. Potentially making things worse. There are certain mental health disorders that should not own firearms like being manic bipolar or people that hallucinate due to extreme paranoia or PTSD. Also, medications that are considered antipsychotics are used for treatment much less severe mental illness like treatment resistant, depression and anxiety. Most people with depression and anxiety have no interest in harming themselves or anyone else they just want to feel normal. People with mood disorders like manic bipolar should be monitored by their psychiatrist and it is the psychiatrist’s job report dangerous mood swings/ anger issues they observe. If we implement a law, it needs to be very specific and not based on the medication but on the diagnosis and observation of the psychiatrist.

My opinion comes from my own personal experiences with friends and family. It’s also my opinion that people that are a suicidal should not be blacklisted from owning firearms as once they are on proper medication or work through the issues with a psychologist /therapist they are no longer a threat to themselves and it would be very difficult to prove that they’re no longer typed to themselves.

Family members also should be stepping in in many of these cases. I have intervened personally to prevent such things in my family. Proper morals and values need to be returned to family households and taught in schools. There are a few countries that still teach firearm safety in schools and I believe that would be greatly beneficial in schools in the US.

By: Gun rights are civil rights

Gun rights are civil rights — Mon, 01 Sep 2025 18:19:53 +0000

A small percentage of the small number of people who commit mass murder are on certain meds so let’s take away gun rights from everyone on the same meds. Makes total sense if you’re a totalitarian who hates freedom. Don’t think pausing gun rights stops here.

By: Oldfogey

Oldfogey — Mon, 01 Sep 2025 16:17:28 +0000

These “mental” illnesses are incurable and chronic so no pausing or temporary banning. No guns and that’s it. Somehow, these people get guns and use them to our detriment anyway.

By: top secret

top secret — Sun, 31 Aug 2025 20:33:44 +0000

Driving heavy machinery is not a right. If someone can’t be trusted to have all of their rights, they can’t be trusted to be out in public. Conversely, if they can be trusted to be out in public unsupervised then they are a free man and deserve the rights of a free citizen.

By: Geoff PR

Geoff PR — Sun, 31 Aug 2025 16:59:38 +0000

In reply to Dude.

“… the NYC gunman bought a used AR-15 for $1,400. That’s a pricey AR.”

I can believe it, NYC prices being what they are.

A single slice of NYC street pizza is like $3.50…