>> [mental health checks] will not significantly decrease gun violence because most gun violence is not committed by people with mental health problems. Rather,

>> [mental health checks] will not significantly decrease gun violence because most gun violence is not committed by people with mental health problems. Rather, it is committed by people who feel they are morally right in committing that act. That strikes me as a non-sequitur. Aren't morality and mental health orthogonal? For example, if someone believed that his refrigerator is God and it speaks to him via the expiration dates on the milk, that would be barking mad. If he based a system of morality on those messages and it told him that bald people are evil and need to die, then he's got moral justification and motivation in his own mind. But he's still barking mad, and a mental health check would show that, right?