Is the solution to have the mentally ill police themselves?

People say it's a mental health problem and move on without addressing it. The woman who feel she is entitled to dress provocatively or the man who feels his need to carry a gun entitles him to carry a firearm. Both are attention seekers who are saying "hey, look at me." This want may or may not attract the attention of their target audiences but the person in the bushes playing with himself or a weapon does not have the self control needed to react normally.

That is what we are doing

We Do? In what world?

In the 1980's President Reagan pushed to close most mental health institutions and released the mentally ill on to the streets. We ask them to self refer themselves, that by itself is cause for us to say we are asking them to police themselves.

SSG Edward Tilton - Feel free to submit to your Congressman that you think the Second Amendment should be repealed. Until then, it is a part of the highest law in the land.
I don't know what the answer is, but messing with the rights of everyone because we can't figure out how to prevent mentally ill people from legally (or illegally) getting a firearm is not it.

1SG (Join to see) - I didn't say the 2nd Amendment should be repealed, you did. You are telling me that thousands of chidren have to die because you can't go potty without an AR-15

At what point, do you draw the line? Does some snowflake psychologist get to declare that you are too dangerous to own a gun? That decision is a matter of one persons opinion. What's to say that they themselves aren't maladjusted? There is no standard of measure that a person has to pass in order to go to college and get a psychology degree. There is no standard of measure that a psychologist uses to make this determination. It's the only place where a single idiot that barely managed to get psychology degree can decide your fate with the stroke of a pen. Think about that. The people that wrongfully misuse a gun and happen to be maladjusted are the minority. Does that decision get made for all of the other tools that get used to kill someone? No. No-one gets blacklisted from buying hammers, screw drivers, nail guns because some liberal minded psychologist doesn't think that this person should not have them. How mentally ill does one have to be to have there rights taken away? Everyone has some form of mental illness. Where is the jury of 12 peers that make this decision? It doesn't exist. Does being prejudiced, biased, bigoted or a racist mean that your psychologist can revoke your second amendment rights? Why or why not? Apples and Oranges? No it isn't. These are all mental maladjustments that cause people to kill other people. I, personally, have PTSD. That's a mental maladjustment. My hyper vigilance and nightmares won't make me kill people. Do I have to give up my guns? I don't think so. I was in a shooting where a truck driver shot at me and my wife missing us by less than an inch several times. I had strong PTSD flashbacks to my time in Iraq WITH A GUN readily available. I didn't shoot back. Do you want to know how I know? The trucker is still alive. My mental maladjustment did not cause me to do anything different than what I would normally do nor will anyone else. These assholes that shoot up schools do so with the same intent and preparation as someone that goes hunting. Hunters aren't mentally maladjusted as a rule. These murderers are exactly that with or without mental maladjustments. It's actually more difficult for someone with a mental maladjustment to commit murder like this because it's not inherently in any persons nature to kill another person. Each murderer has to work past those additional hurdles to bring themselves to be able to kill someone else.

SSG Edward Tilton - Thousands? A little quick research got me a total in the history of the United States of 588 deaths, not all of whom were kids.
I think that salient points can be made without hyperbole.
I don't even think that we disagree on the substance of the issue.
What is at issue is how do we keep firearms from the hands of mentally ill people.
What I am saying is that it varies by state, but generally speaking you can't without a change in law.
Specifically as it pertains to school shootings, the perpetrators are mostly minors who lack a diagnosis with enough teeth to keep guns out of their hands.
That Muldoon that shot up Sandy Hook was a known problem child, yet what he did was steal a gun from his mother's gun safe, then went to the school and shot second graders. Short of confiscation of guns from everybody (and I am not convinced that would even work) nothing would have kept that from happening, except maybe mom getting to the gun first and filling his body with lead.

I like a good debate, but let's not get personal.