Mental Illness, Guns, and Background Checks

A very interesting story was aired last night on Fox 2 News. It featured a story about a woman – Jannette Williams – who was reported as having battled several mental illnesses over the past 30 years. Among the diagnoses she has received were Manic Depression, Bi-Polar Disorder, and Schizophrenia.

The most shocking revelation of the story was the allegation that she was allowed to buy a handgun – a .25 caliber “automatic” – in 1983 which was eventually stolen and that she was also later approved in 2011 to buy another pistol that she did not pursue. Williams, presumably, came forward and went public to the media in an effort to share her story and demonstrate that she should not have been authorized to buy a handgun. She claims that she even wrote to President Obama in the past to encourage him to continue calling for more gun control because people like her should not be able to buy a gun.

In an era in which the current POTUS has steadily called for more gun control – despite his lame duck status, a dearth of needed votes on Capitol Hill, and a vote of …Read the Rest

Source:: Legally Armed in Detroit