'Some people just shouldn't have handguns': Mentally ill allowed to own, buy guns

[ninepointer]

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/saskat...alth-1.4493326

[poltrojan]

After reading the article, my comment that if family had addressed the issues to the CFO and RCMP. It fell on deaf ears.

[ninepointer]

If this article is generally accurate, I have to say I'm not totally surprised. It reminded me of my family's experience, but with the Provincial government, when my father had dementia and became a clear danger to himself and others on the road. It was impossible to get his doctors, the OPP or the MTO to suspend his drivers license, even after he drove the wrong way on a 400 series highway.

[trimmer21]

There has to be something missing from that story. My experience has been that the slightest hint of mental illness and/or criminal activity,the Police are all over it,unless,there's a jurisdictional difference in enforcement methods (which I doubt,BUT...............) The inconvenient truth is that no amount of gun control will prevent suicides,usually, a long term solution to a short term issue. People will simply use another method.

[Gilroy]

Some "official" did not do their jobs properly in these cases and because local firearms officers are now no longer employed as such across the country we will see more cases like these.