Doesn't the left think that is a right?
Pulaski, hell everyone talks to bears in Pulaski. Years ago when George Washington was surveying Virginia, the crew stopped working for the day and George was catching up his paper work. He wondered out loud now what should we call this camp. About that time the mule tender was unloading the animals and just as he was pulling the harness off of the mule she let one. He jumped back and said Pu laski. George said that will work.
In the span of two seconds I came up with Jared Loughner and John Hinckley.
Giving Zero hacking rights into our nuclear arsenal, negociating with the non-negociable arms issue, is enough to say that mental illness has become such a relative that... we forget that owning firearms has a lot with setting the record straight and making people think out of their so called mental illnesses because an armed society is a polite self-treating society.
In a world where the standard diagnostic mental health manual says 1/3-1/4 of the adult population has some disorder (excessive grief, PTSD, ADD, ADHD, social anxiety disorder), do we really want civil rights like the 2nd linked to “sanity”?
Meanwhile, several tens of thousands of combat veterans of Iraq and Afghanistan, who were at least temporarily assigned as having Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, for whom a law was written with *intent* to permanently deny them ownership of firearms, which Republicans insisted *not* be used to oppress veterans, are still armed, and doing quite well, thank you.
Very, very few if any have been involved in gun related crimes, and though a larger number have experienced chronic depression resulting in suicide, but a number *lower* than that of the general public, they remain honored, upright citizens, *despite* having been once diagnosed as “mentally ill”, due to having participated in the stress of combat.
Meanwhile, severely mentally ill people, like Gerald Loughner, who though appearing deeply disturbed to many individuals, was never committed to a mental institution because lawyers have determined that doing so would be oppressive to his rights. Which disproves that laws intending to keep guns out of the hands of dangerously mentally ill people are fatally flawed.