It's a temporary violation of rights, but I'm OK with it.
The kids he killed had the right to live a full life.
Sure. But we do it with psych patients themselves so I'm not just imagining laws. I'm just brainstorming on reapplying something that already exists.
You come tell me you are going to kill yourself, I do my best to get you help. I talk through it to make a professional assessment of your plan to do it. I then make the best guess I can on treatment.
This sometimes means meds, counseling, contracting for safety. See you in a few days.
Sometimes this means straight to the ER because I need a psychiatry eval and am worried you might leave my office and go kill yourself right now.
Sometimes that results in an inpatient or outpatient treatment plan. In the former, I have to go through a couple of processes regarding forced detention.That process is a temporary one that requires no judge. I can get a cop and force it. You are now detained without anything more than a doc and a cop. The clock is ticking at which time I must present evidence to a judge to turn that into a longer different type of order. If I don't, you're free to go. If the judge turns it down, you're free to go. Else, you are involuntarily placed into inpatient psych facility.
BTW, at no point do I have the ability to have the cops remove the guns from your house. I can only recommend it and, if family is around beg and plead the same with them to do it.
You come tell me you have urges to murder others, something similar happens. I'm still not sure that alone gets the guns restrained (cops and psych take over and I'm out of the picture in such a scenario).
Some sort of mechanism there should apply to those already demonstrating wishes for violence. Don't want your guns taken? Just don't go around killing animals, claiming you want to be a school shooter, making a rape list and hit list, and posting it all online.