Re: "Dear Symantec, attached is a copy of my receipt to McAfee"
"Mandatory check on applicants for mental illness"
The American Civil Liberties Union opposed this for very good reason. This is far too broad a brush.
More than 18% of American adults suffer from mental illness in any given year.
There is zero evidence that most of them would be a risk to themselves or others if they were allowed to have guns. Depriving them of the ability to protect themselves is clearly unjust and discriminatory.
Given the American attitude to guns, fear of a formal diagnosis costing them the ability to possess firearms would probable cause some number of those suffering from mental illness to avoid diagnosis and treatment - quite possibly INCREASING the risk by having people forego appropriate professional help.
That would be another predictable 'own goal' from poorly thought out policies in a long and illustrious line of such follies.
Always remember that the Chernobyl nuclear accident was caused in part by a plan intended to help increase reactor safety.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
