I remember sitting down for lunch in Tyler, Texas, at Cox's Grill, and meeting the director of the public health department for our district. For some reason, I shut up and listened. He told me that every day, some of his employees receive a list of names and some  medicines. The list of names is a list of those persons with a disease so dangerous (Tuberculosis) that his employees are instructed to go see them, and watch them take the medicines. Simply asking the people if they had taken their pills is not good enough, the employee had to see the person place the pill in his mouth and swallow it. A refusal to take the medicine would result in the person being locked up in a hospital and receiving his medical treatment there.

As dangerous as Tuberculosis is, it seems that some forms of mental illness, along with guns, is even worse. Sending someone out to watch the bi-polar person take his medicine (and see if he is playing with an AR-15) is fairly simple. It is certainly easier than finding and locking down hundreds of millions of firearms.

Isn't one solution to send someone out, watch the dangerous person take his medicine, and see what is going on?