I disagree.
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The summary is that mental health, which can be manufactured, is not a reliable way to "discredit" someone from owning a gun.
I know from experience. While I don't need a gun myself, I was often called crazy for some of the posts I would make regarding neuroscience and AI algorithms. I have personally felt the "echo chamber" that AI algorithms can silently murder someone, purely based on their ad profile, which consists of interests/likes, diseases, flaws, etc..
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Silencing your alarm clock before you have to wake up for work, or causing a missed appointment at the doctor, or having AI bombard you with depressing memes while your depressed, all can contribute. The crisis becomes manufactured.
If a civil war were to break out, it would be the "crazies" that would need the weapons to defend themselves, I suppose. Pro-Trump supporters (or even anti-Trump supporters) are flagged as crazy by the opposing party and slowly lose their rights online, with increased targeting / profiling / interest. You can become singled out, and with AI, that's even simpler to do. Predictive technology, or maybe it's because of manufactured crisis', can single you out for being a threat years before you become one.
end-to-end encryption is a must to avoid this, and I know it's possible, because I've done it to myself with my own messages.
I took my Facebook messages from a friend and asked about any unresolved issues we may have had. These are easy targets for someone to prey on to cause conflict, break up relationships, or otherwise cause crime. It can be helpful too, by pointing out to you something that may have caused negative thoughts against you from that point forward, so you can address it and put a stop to it.
That's just some examples. 1984 doesn't even begin to cover what's coming (or already here).