Thread: License vetting and medical information

Apply together, everyone in your household over 16 so they can screen you all even as you provide references for each other...

As a GP I'm pessimistic about the usefulness of all this mental health screening, it risks driving mental illness underground. Screening for a history of violence is time better spent. But there is no escaping it, the AOs are getting sucked into the maelstrom of the GANFYD bureaucratic mentality. GANFYD is a town in Wales known to the English as GetANoteFromYourDoctor. It has given unto the world famous idiot sons like the Seatbelt Exemption Certificate, etc.

The only hope of escaping this nonsense is to realise that availability of ready means of suicide or violence does NOT drive up suicide or violence rates, but it will influence peoples' choice of method. Sensational yes, but suicide/violence itself is the problem, not the method.

As a detached mental exercise, think of a normal day in your life, and how many non-firearm chances you actually are presented with to readily and instantly kill or harm yourself or others. List EVERY chance or the bears will get you.

If you do this exercise honestly with just a smidge of imagination you will be forced into seeing that it is YOU stopping you, NOT any lack of means. Which does bring us back to mental health I suppose.