Who decides?

Andrew Amedee warns that all the discussion about mental health could give the gun controllers ammunition for new legislation.

However, there is an ever increasing chorus on the right calling for a conversation on mental health. Caution should be taken when advocating for this. That conversation could very well lead to legislation.

And therein lies the problem; who decides? The same doctors that donned their clinical white coats and stood with Obama to vouch for the Affordable Care Act? The AMA? Is it inconceivable that cherry picked doctors could be used to testify in front of Congress to justify de facto gun control? Also, what constitutes mental illness? Could guns be taken away from a mother suffering from postpartum depression? What about, say, if a person were 16 and the love of their life broke their heart? Let’s say, as 16-year-olds do, that they think their life is over and threatened suicide. Out of concern for the child, said child’s parents place that person in psychiatric care on a 72 hour hold for observation and counseling. Could that be used 20 years later to deny that person purchase of a firearm?