It seems to me that this is how rights are taken away, little by little. Reminds me of the "frog in hot water" analogy where the frog tossed into boiling water would jump out, but the one placed in cool water and the temperature is slowly raised gets cooked.
Concealed carry permit reviews show loopholes
"Dann highlighted one example in Summit County. A 76-year-old Akron man was issued a permit in 2004. Recently, that man's family applied for guardianship to the courts because he suffered from dementia. A judge then declared the elderly man mentally incompetent.
'He wasn't deemed incompetent until four weeks ago,' said Christine Croce, general counsel for the Summit County Sheriff's Office. 'That's 3 years later. His license was still going to be valid for another year and a half. So we have no way of knowing....the courts don't notify us.'
Dann's office notified the Summit County sheriff's office of the mistake Friday morning.
'That led us to revoke his license today and notify his guardians that he's no longer permitted to carry a concealed weapon,' said Croce.
The state's review of all permits is considered a step in the right direction by many.
'It's an improvement,' said Tim Dimoff, a national security expert based in Akron. 'But it's not the bulk of where we need to go if we want to make a bigger impact with carried concealed weapons and making sure the wrong people don't have those permits.'
By law, gun licensers are prohibited from checking mental health records in any medical facility. Dimoff suggests that hospitals, clinics and doctors should be required to enter names of people"
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