So, how do you all propose we, as a society, handle the issue of mentally unstable people with firearms? It's obvious that self-diagnosis (i.e., admitting issues on the 4473) won't work. Many preach "mental health" nearly every time there's a mass shooting. Sitting back and saying "psychologists don't know what they are doing" and "doctors don't know what they are doing" and "politicians don't know what they are doing" doesn't fix anything. Somebody is going to do something, so it's best to make a good plan get on the offensive side of this one...otherwise, the psychologists, doctors, and politicians will do something. I can also vouch for the fact that many more psychologists support individual gun rights than you might think.
The conundrum of judging mental instability to the level that somebody shouldn't own a firearm is going to be almost impossible to prove IMHO.
Everyone that commits a murder is mentally unstable. Were they unstable 2 days before that, 2 years before?
How does a society deem somebody to be unstable? What markers are checked off by a trained psychologist, or psychiatrist?
Will our government require mental evaluations before signing a 4473?
It looks like its headed that way to me.