This I find very bothersome.
Many war veterans have PTSD. Depression is most often a component of PTSD. Depression often makes one suicidal, thus a threat.
The vast majority of such vets are not criminals, have no arrest records and are good citizens. IMO they are better citizens because they actually laid their lives on the line in combat.
Now the very country they have defended is being set up to disarm them?
With the establishment also disarm LEO’s that have duty related PTSD?
Once it becomes “legal” to start taking guns away from certain groups, where will it end?
In my last post “With” should be “Will”.
YES -- thanks for your post; that is an even more immediate concern than the "post-partum" depression I mentioned above.
And, THANKS to all veterans for all you have gone through for our freedom.
There is not one... not one... of them who I have ever or would ever feel endangered by. Each one of them is among the most sincere and conscientious and respectful and GOOD people you are ever apt to meet in this world.
The vast majority of them, I would have no hesitation at all about letting them own a firearm for personal protection. Except that most of them have been in psychiatric facilities of one sort or another.
It's ironic that the vast majority of people with mental illness have greater appreciation of human life than too many who are "normal".
It isn't an issue of neurobiology. It's an issue about the soul. And idiots like Hogg and Feinstein and Schumer will never understand that it's impossible to fix the soul with more and more legislation.
This is how it starts. Taking the guns from one group makes it easier to take them from others.
The slow boiling of the water with the frog in it.
“Many war veterans have PTSD.”
The laws are based on exhibited behaviors, not a diagnosis.
There is no relationship between the two.
If you’re waving around guns, threatening to shoot people and/or yourself...it will not matter if you have a diagnosis. And the reverse is true as well.
I know a guy that had that exact condition, model citizen but so traumatized by PTSD from his Ranger service in Iraq that he went over and shot up his neighbors washing machine one night out of nowhere, about 2 years ago.
“They” took away all of his guns.
This was way before this new law.
Totally agree with what you’re saying
here.
It can get sticky. Suppose dad and son
live in the same house. The son suffers
from PTSD. There are guns locked up
in a safe, and are jointly owned
and used. Should it be deemed that the
son is not competent to own a firearm,
does dad lose HIS right to own or possess
a firearm? I see many court battles
arising from this new law.