Well, according to what I wrote, if you or your friends go around telling other people you want to kill a particular individual, under a lot of circumstances that in itself could be considered a criminal act, whether you have a gun or not.
Add to that you’re speaking at the time to a psychiatrist evaluating you to see whether you are sane enough to be walking the street, and there is indeed a good chance you are either amazingly, dangerously honest, or it might not be a good idea for you to have a gun because you would be a danger to yourself or others.
Now granted, I knew a Marine who was so opposed to lying that he told me that if his wife asked him, he would tell her that yes, she does look fat. But he is far more likely to be a homicide victim than an aggressor. There are times when honesty is not the best policy.
However, the bottom line is that it can be diagnostic of serious mental illness if someone goes around telling others they want to kill a particular individual. It is a red flag, much as if they tell others that they want to kill themselves. It is not proof positive, but a very good reason to keep a watch on somebody.
Where in hell did you get the idea that I or my friends walk around announcing I or they wanted to kill someone in particular???
My comment was made on the CRITERIA used to determine PTSd:
A. Exposure to a traumatic event
B. Persistent reexperience (e.g. flashbacks, nightmares)
C. Persistent avoidance of stimuli associated with the trauma (e.g. inability to talk about things even related to the experience. Avoidance of things and discussions that trigger flashbacks and reexperiencing symptoms. Fear of losing control.)
D. Persistent symptoms of increased arousal (e.g. difficulty falling or staying asleep, anger and hypervigilance )
E. Duration of symptoms more than 1 month
F. Significant impairment in social, occupational, or other important areas of functioning (e.g. problems with work and relationships.)
There are probably very few Grunts who have experienced combat - that didn’t suffer from at least several of those “symptom”.......for YEARS not the stated months.
I can name a few who STILL have nightmares, after 43 years!
If fact — If they didn’t - I would be far more suspicious of their sanity....
That criteria was obviously written by some jerk knee shrink with the objective of declaring almost ALL combat vets as being ineligible to own firearms...