WALSH: Two Reasons Why Taking Guns Away From The ‘Mentally Ill’ Is A Dangerous And Awful Idea

It has been said over and over again that we need to “take guns away from the mentally ill.” Infamously, President Trump made this same suggestion in a meeting yesterday, explaining that we can take the guns and then the mentally ill person can have “due process after.” Of course, giving someone due process after you’ve already deprived them of liberty and property is like strapping a seatbelt onto a guy who’s already been paralyzed in a car wreck. It kind of defeats the purpose.

Nonetheless, Trump is expressing a relatively common and popular view. His proposal found some support even among supposed conservatives (although if Obama had suggested the same thing, it would have been met with volcanic rage from every conservative in America without exception). And there does seem to be a certain logic to the idea. I mean, we can’t just have mentally ill people running around with guns! Right?