Post #3335915
2026-06-09 04:11 UTC
Fun thing about background checks they are only done once for the purchase.
Then after the fact doesn’t matter if they lose their fucking shit and go mental. We checked their background! They where good at the time!
Background checks are fundamentally flawed from literally every possiable angle when your talking about a purchase of something that doesn’t have a time limit.
Unless your doing annual background and mental checks it’s literally just security theater. Better then literally nothing. But that’s a low fucking bar.
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@forbiddencherry@lemmy.today 2026-06-09 07:57
Mental checks sound good in theory, but such things are actually counterproductive. People actively avoid getting help if they think they might get in trouble because of it. Also, mental health is not a scientific and solved field. It’s highly subjective. Your mental health requirement would almost certainly result in more deaths, including suicides, by people who were afraid to go to therapy.