The left has wanted to spend more on metal health for a long time,so they´ll use this as a wedge to get it.

I think a person´s metal health should be taken into consideration but you´ll never come up with a way to bypass the ACLU protecting medical privacy,which I also support.

That´s why I´ve said a new gun applicant should have 3 other adults vouch for him. The people around somebody knows them the best.

When someone like Waxman calls for more spending,he sees it as a hiring opportunity for more support bureaucrats compiling records or whatever.

There is an excellent Wall Street Journal on the mental health issue in Friday´s edition. Unfortunately, it is still behind a subscriber wall. But the gist is that we don´t have to spend money; we can change the privacy laws to permit mental health professionals to get input from family members as well as make it easier for family members to get a person in for an evaluation. By forcing people to wait until a crisis develops, we end up with more crisis situations, more homicides, more suicides.

Yes - - I completely agree.

It´s about time someone paid attention to Waxman´s mental heath.

When the Democrats start coming around to the real issue it only demonstrates that the issue is so obvious they just can´t ignore it. But as soon as they push that issue to the back they will go back to concentrating on their real agenda.

"as his panel grapples with U.S. gun violence"

The trick, of course, is only to grapple with "gun violence". If they were to expand the scope of the inquiry to include all violent crimes, they´d have to start talking about baseball bats, and hammers, and knives.

So long as the topic is limited to "gun violence", the answer is going to have to be dealing with guns. In places where there are no guns, there is no gun crime. People may be afraid to walk the streets due to the threat of rape, robbery, and murder (e.g. many British cities), but if there are no guns, then by definition there is no "gun crime". Problem solved.

Waxman should include a rider to provide for free plastic surgery fo extremely ugly congressmen.

More attention must be paid to people with rodent-like faces.

Left wing Liberals´ mental health has certainly been a serious problem for some time. Addiction to OPM (Other People´s Money) makes it even more dangerous.

The guilty dog barks the loudest.

Let´s start first with the mental "states" of Bow-Hussain-Boy, Waxman, Pee-Low-See, Reid, Lew, Feinstein, Bloomburg and the rest of our resident communist/socialist, mind-challenged scum running this country over the cliff.

Waxman, more than anybody I know, should be concerned about mental health. Maybe looking really weird does effect your psyche.

It has been long known that more money does not cure any malady and mental problems included. There has been a 5 decade argument about those who clearly are mental menaces to the public of needing to be institutionalized. There are many instances when a person with a severe mental problem and walks in the public arena and the didn´ take his/her Meds that day becaome a threat to the inocent public. The reason they are on the street is because goverments at all levels do not want to foot the bill of supporting those types of "hospitals".

What will they say when they find out that 99.9% of Congress members are mentally unstable and can´t own a gun?

Nostrilitis has been driving people crazy with his batcave probiscis exposed in
the news for longer than we can remember.

Mebbe we all could be compensated by means of a class action suit for having to look
at his weird buttface this much.

He should attend hearings with a bag over his head.
It would probably improve his image.
Couldn´t hurt it any, that´s for sure.

If they add a mental health qualifier in order to get a gun license, there will be no liberals with gun licenses.

Gee # 12 at last a post with thought instead of a string of personal insults aimed at Waxman.
The man is a crook and all kinds of other things BUT he is right on this subject.
He is probably out in the sinning cities enough to know the won will have a hell of a reaction from the black street gangs if Guns are banned than from other citizens.
Obe couldn´t deal with or fix a series of riots from those factions.