Should PTSD patients be able to purchase weapons

Anyone under psychiatric care or prescription psychiatric meds are restricted from gun ownership. It's not just an ex-military thing. Just look at what happens to the weapons of an ordinary citizen in the backwoods of Tennessee if you are stressed, have an anxiety attack, suicidal or have PTSD.

Let me say this loud and clear:

That is wrong!

Only somebody who has been ruled as being mentally incompetent in a court of law looses the right to possess firearms.

You had better do some research, and not simply make things up.

Possession of a Firearm by the Mentally Ill
 
Anyone under psychiatric care or prescription psychiatric meds are restricted from gun ownership. It's not just an ex-military thing. Just look at what happens to the weapons of an ordinary citizen in the backwoods of Tennessee if you are stressed, have an anxiety attack, suicidal or have PTSD.

Let me say this loud and clear:

That is wrong!

Only somebody who has been ruled as being mentally incompetent in a court of law looses the right to possess firearms.

You had better do some research, and not simply make things up.

Possession of a Firearm by the Mentally Ill

Yup, it requires a Judgement from a Judge to declare someone unfit to own firearms.
 
Yup, it requires a Judgement from a Judge to declare someone unfit to own firearms.

The stupidity of either anti-gun and anti-military individuals always amazes me.

And when you combine both types of stupid, then it is epic.

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What happens if someone with PTSD and a gun shoots themselves because they can't cope? Does everyone just shrug their shoulders and not care?

And what happens if anybody takes a gun and shoots themselves or somebody else?

Why the separation of veterans here?

Look, if you want to make this fair and equal, then make it apply for anybody with PTSD.

Any female that has been raped or sexually assaulted, anybody who has ever been in an accident, anybody who worked long hours with little sleep. All of those are prime PTSD candidates.

I am pretty much rejecting it because I see this as yet another anti military thread.

Anyone under psychiatric care or prescription psychiatric meds are restricted from gun ownership. It's not just an ex-military thing. Just look at what happens to the weapons of an ordinary citizen in the backwoods of Tennessee if you are stressed, have an anxiety attack, suicidal or have PTSD.

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Right. Make absolutely sure that women who have been raped and other victims of violence cannot defend themselves when it happens again. After all they might hurt some poor unsuspecting gangbanger. We get it. You are not only an idiot but a stone-cold asshole.
 
First of all I do not agree with the current administration's opinion that American Military Veterans should be suspected of engaging in domestic terrorism. I do, however, believe that Veterans who have been determined to be so psychotic that they are awarded a disability pension related to their mental disorder should never be able to legally possess or purchase a firearm unless their specific psychiatric veterans administrator signs off on each forearm.

They should be allowed to possess firearms until adjudicated mentally incompetent in accordance with due process.

The "due process" is easy if the federal government, which administers the qualifications for obtaining a mental disability related to Military service, simply issues an order that persons on PTSD mental disability pensions cannot purchase firearms. That's what the discussion is about. It's not the "how" but the "why".
 
Anyone under psychiatric care or prescription psychiatric meds are restricted from gun ownership. It's not just an ex-military thing. Just look at what happens to the weapons of an ordinary citizen in the backwoods of Tennessee if you are stressed, have an anxiety attack, suicidal or have PTSD.

Let me say this loud and clear:

That is wrong!

Only somebody who has been ruled as being mentally incompetent in a court of law looses the right to possess firearms.

You had better do some research, and not simply make things up.

Possession of a Firearm by the Mentally Ill

Yeah right. Everybody is a little crazy and we may have lost friends and we had accidents and we saw terrible things and we all have some problems that we are usually able to straighten out without the government interfering with our 2nd Amendment rights. We aren't talking about our drunken buddies who get stoned and shoot up the hunting lodge, we are talking about Veterans who may or may not have been in combat and who admit to being so mentally impaired that we have to support them with a disability pension. They didn't lose the ability to walk or the use of an arm or a leg, they claim to have lost the ability to reason and to follow the rules of society and society has a right to be protected from people who claim to be mentally incompetent.
 
Guns! Guns for everyone! The mentally frazzled, the disturbed, the retarded, the anxiety riddled! Guns for children! Guns for the blind! After all, we have a RIGHT to guns! Public safety be damned! The innocent shou8ld have been armed themselves so they could exchange gun fire! Guns are fun! They make you feel like Rambo! You can't play Army without guns! The more powerful, the more deadly, the better! Guns are too cool to have the least restrictions placed on them.

We should have flamethrowers and rocket launchers and shoulder fired missile launchers too! Who cares if children get killed? Who cares if someone shoots up another church or temple or theater? Who cares if someone sees a husband playfully giving his wife a nuggy and then decides this is a case of assault and opens fire? Guns! Guns for everyone!

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How about a little perspective, eh? More pedestrians are struck and killed by vehicles then people are killed by firearms.
Right. Because the design purpose of an automobile is as a deadly weapon? Automobile licenses are suspended if the driver poses a public safety threat. Automobiles are registered with the state.

There's your perspective.

The registration doesn't appear to be making them any safer than the unregistered guns.
 
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How about a little perspective, eh? More pedestrians are struck and killed by vehicles then people are killed by firearms.
Right. Because the design purpose of an automobile is as a deadly weapon? Automobile licenses are suspended if the driver poses a public safety threat. Automobiles are registered with the state.

There's your perspective.

The registration doesn't appear to be making them any safer than the unregistered guns.
Law enforcement could be aware of stolen guns easier. The more data from a crime scene the better.
 
People lose their rights when taken in front of a JUDGE, Whitehall. You want BUREAUCRATS to have the power to summarily take away rights. You are a Bureaucratic Centralist, a person who believes in arbitrary and capricious rule by bureaucratic fiat. (I know, the shrink is LICENSED we should trust him to rule benevolently and wisely...bullshit. The shrink is probably the most F---d up person in the room.) Politically, or governmentaly, you are in good company. All the biggies on the total government left; commies, Nazis, socialists-even imperialists-use bureaucratic centralism as their form of government (how they mechanically govern, as opposed to the philosophical bullshit that they spout in order to gain power). The Romans had a BIG problem in Germania, Whitehall, the Germans believed in the right to keep and bear arms (they never conquered Germania, BTW)....That was 2500 years ago....of, course, the Assyrians and the Babylonians and the Persians also had big troubles with armed rednecks...4000 years?...4000 years of assholes looking for excuses to control--so that they can live parasitically off off--their neighbors. In fact, I would argue that all heretofore history is not a history of class struggle, but of a struggle between producers and parasites. And to be a successful parasite, you have to break down all defenses, then, you can just eat for free, right? Right..

I see you, Whitehall...first of all, you're the most dangerous thing on two legs, a Bureaucratic Centralist looking for an excuse to exercise control and secondly, you really want to punish those goddamned vets who are getting a check...Would you take away their right to vote, too? You should advocate that, since votes are more dangerous than guns. Voting is governing, Whitey. Should we be governed by the mentally incompetent? We had that during the Bush years. How did that work out for us?
 
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Anyone under psychiatric care or prescription psychiatric meds are restricted from gun ownership. It's not just an ex-military thing. Just look at what happens to the weapons of an ordinary citizen in the backwoods of Tennessee if you are stressed, have an anxiety attack, suicidal or have PTSD.

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Let me say this loud and clear:

That is wrong!

Only somebody who has been ruled as being mentally incompetent in a court of law looses the right to possess firearms.

You had better do some research, and not simply make things up.

Possession of a Firearm by the Mentally Ill

If you watch the video & listen you will hear David Sarti say that he went before Judge John Gwen while at the hospital. That ended his gun rights.

I have been held at gunpoint by 7 different assholes. 3 were mentally deficient or impaired assholes & one of them pulled the trigger. The other 4 were criminal thugs. Many US soldiers haven't stared down the business end of a gun that many times. I have also seen mentally unstable shoot people because they yelled at them. So don't tell me crazy people & criminals should be allowed to have guns! As per my experience crazy people are far more likely to pull the trigger than a criminal is. If you can't control your emotions, you should not control a deadly weapon. Crazy people should not fly planes, drive cars or have guns.
 
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Right. Because the design purpose of an automobile is as a deadly weapon? Automobile licenses are suspended if the driver poses a public safety threat. Automobiles are registered with the state.

There's your perspective.

The registration doesn't appear to be making them any safer than the unregistered guns.
Law enforcement could be aware of stolen guns easier. The more data from a crime scene the better.

So since registration doesn't make cars safer now it's about having a list of guns for law enforcement. What is step one in confiscation?

I think it's "make a list."
 
The "due process" is easy if the federal government, which administers the qualifications for obtaining a mental disability related to Military service, simply issues an order that persons on PTSD mental disability pensions cannot purchase firearms. That's what the discussion is about. It's not the "how" but the "why".

In other words, "to hell with due process under the law", right?

What next, rounding up races you do not like and removing their voting rights? Who assigns you or anybody else the right to strip people of their rights without any kind of legal hearings, as an administrative process?

And before you try to spin this into something I am not saying, let me be perfectly clear here.

If somebody is indeed a danger to themselves or others, then they should be judged by competent medical personnel, and then have their right to own firearms suspended in a court of law. Not simply because you have some kind of hatred against veterans.

Yeah right. Everybody is a little crazy and we may have lost friends and we had accidents and we saw terrible things and we all have some problems that we are usually able to straighten out without the government interfering with our 2nd Amendment rights. We aren't talking about our drunken buddies who get stoned and shoot up the hunting lodge, we are talking about Veterans who may or may not have been in combat and who admit to being so mentally impaired that we have to support them with a disability pension. They didn't lose the ability to walk or the use of an arm or a leg, they claim to have lost the ability to reason and to follow the rules of society and society has a right to be protected from people who claim to be mentally incompetent.

I do not have any buddies that get stoned and shoot places up, those must be your buddies you are thinking of.

But thank you for your idea that all veterans with PTSD are walking timebombs. To bad you do not have a fucking clue what you are talking about.

Take your fucking anti-military bias and hatred and blow it out your ass.
 
First of all I do not agree with the current administration's opinion that American Military Veterans should be suspected of engaging in domestic terrorism. I do, however, believe that Veterans who have been determined to be so psychotic that they are awarded a disability pension related to their mental disorder should never be able to legally possess or purchase a firearm unless their specific psychiatric veterans administrator signs off on each forearm.

Should every cop who has ever been in a firefight also lose his right to own firearms? PTSD is exactly what it says, and not just a military malfunction. How about firefighters or paramedics who despite all their efforts can't save someone?

Some people should not be allowed to own weapons, firearms or otherwise. Now define "weapon".

This is just another case of desiring to legislate punishment of the masses for the actions of the few. A majority of our legislation does exactly that.

"Individual" liberty is self-explanatory as well. Its content precludes one-size-fits all legislation.
 
The "due process" is easy if the federal government, which administers the qualifications for obtaining a mental disability related to Military service, simply issues an order that persons on PTSD mental disability pensions cannot purchase firearms. That's what the discussion is about. It's not the "how" but the "why".

In other words, "to hell with due process under the law", right?

If you watch the video & listen you will hear David Sarti say that he went before Judge John Gwen while at the hospital. That ended his gun rights.

I have been held at gunpoint by 7 different assholes. 3 were mentally deficient or impaired assholes & one of them pulled the trigger. The other 4 were criminal thugs. Many US soldiers haven't stared down the business end of a gun that many times. I have also seen mentally unstable shoot people because they yelled at them. So don't tell me crazy people & criminals should be allowed to have guns! As per my experience crazy people are far more likely to pull the trigger than a criminal is. If you can't control your emotions, you should not control a deadly weapon. Crazy people should not fly planes, drive cars or have guns.

Look, I have absolutely no interest in watching some random Youtube video. I have seen Youtube videos showing how the moon landings were faked, how there really are cars that run on water, and that blacks are inhuman. They are about as reliable to me as the ones showing kittens doing dances means that cats have fine arts capabilities.

And as you yourself just stated, he went before a judge!

He did not loose his rights because he was on any kind of medication, he was judged mentally incompetent in a legal hearing, right?

Therefore what you said is wrong, end of story.

And I gotta wonder what kind of life you live. I have been attacked 3 times in my life, once with metal pipes, twice with knives. The only time my weapon has ever been pulled other then at a range was when my wife used it to keep off a gang of attackers who tried to steal her car and approached her with a crowbar.

Maybe we should just euthanize all the crazy people, will that make you feel safe?
 
Should every cop who has ever been in a firefight also lose his right to own firearms? PTSD is exactly what it says, and not just a military malfunction. How about firefighters or paramedics who despite all their efforts can't save someone?

Some people should not be allowed to own weapons, firearms or otherwise. Now define "weapon".

This is just another case of desiring to legislate punishment of the masses for the actions of the few. A majority of our legislation does exactly that.

"Individual" liberty is self-explanatory as well. Its content precludes one-size-fits all legislation.

Interestingly enough, my worst PTSD came from a vehicle accident. I had flashbacks from that for years afterwards. And it took me 2 years to get back onto a motorcycle, and the first time I rode I had to pull over after 5 minutes and shook like a leaf for 15 minutes.

And to this day, almost 24 years later I am often times almost a wreck, and feel that every single car driver on the road is out to run me over. But that does not make me want to get my gun and go around shooting people in cars who do stupid things that almost get me killed on the freeway.

This thread really is not about guns at all, but about persecuting veterans.
 
Should every cop who has ever been in a firefight also lose his right to own firearms? PTSD is exactly what it says, and not just a military malfunction. How about firefighters or paramedics who despite all their efforts can't save someone?

Some people should not be allowed to own weapons, firearms or otherwise. Now define "weapon".

This is just another case of desiring to legislate punishment of the masses for the actions of the few. A majority of our legislation does exactly that.

"Individual" liberty is self-explanatory as well. Its content precludes one-size-fits all legislation.

Interestingly enough, my worst PTSD came from a vehicle accident. I had flashbacks from that for years afterwards. And it took me 2 years to get back onto a motorcycle, and the first time I rode I had to pull over after 5 minutes and shook like a leaf for 15 minutes.

And to this day, almost 24 years later I am often times almost a wreck, and feel that every single car driver on the road is out to run me over. But that does not make me want to get my gun and go around shooting people in cars who do stupid things that almost get me killed on the freeway.

This thread really is not about guns at all, but about persecuting veterans.

While I choose to not discuss it, the incidents that caused my PTSD occurred long before I was ever in combat, so I hear ya.

I also agree that if the person was judged incompetent by due process of law, WHERE is the argument here?
 
The registration doesn't appear to be making them any safer than the unregistered guns.
Law enforcement could be aware of stolen guns easier. The more data from a crime scene the better.

So since registration doesn't make cars safer now it's about having a list of guns for law enforcement. What is step one in confiscation?

I think it's "make a list."
No one ever said that registering cars makes them safer. Where did you ever get such a stupid idea? What registering car does is the creation of a chain of custody, a legal notice of ownership that makes crimes committed by the operation of cars easier to investigate and prosecute. Registration does not make the car stop faster or steer more accurately. Registration could reduce harmful emissions from that car and show ownership should that car get stolen.
 
This thread is based on the idiotic premise that people with PTSD are "crazy" and irrational which is simply a lie. That is no more true than making the same claim about someone who has lost their legs or their hearing nor is it in any way more fair or reasonable to seek to deprive them of their rights.

Whitehall doesn't know psychosis from disorder. Or mental impairment from a case of the clap. But he thinks the world should revolve around what he thinks about the subject. If anyone should lose rights because of someone's uninformed opinion it should be those of his ilk.

He also needs to learn the difference between pension and compensation.
 
Should every cop who has ever been in a firefight also lose his right to own firearms? PTSD is exactly what it says, and not just a military malfunction. How about firefighters or paramedics who despite all their efforts can't save someone?

Some people should not be allowed to own weapons, firearms or otherwise. Now define "weapon".

This is just another case of desiring to legislate punishment of the masses for the actions of the few. A majority of our legislation does exactly that.

"Individual" liberty is self-explanatory as well. Its content precludes one-size-fits all legislation.

Interestingly enough, my worst PTSD came from a vehicle accident. I had flashbacks from that for years afterwards. And it took me 2 years to get back onto a motorcycle, and the first time I rode I had to pull over after 5 minutes and shook like a leaf for 15 minutes.

And to this day, almost 24 years later I am often times almost a wreck, and feel that every single car driver on the road is out to run me over. But that does not make me want to get my gun and go around shooting people in cars who do stupid things that almost get me killed on the freeway.

This thread really is not about guns at all, but about persecuting veterans.

More specifically veterans who receive a disability check. I think Whitehall believes they should be punished by having their guns taken away for getting a disability check.
 
Should every cop who has ever been in a firefight also lose his right to own firearms? PTSD is exactly what it says, and not just a military malfunction. How about firefighters or paramedics who despite all their efforts can't save someone?

Some people should not be allowed to own weapons, firearms or otherwise. Now define "weapon".

This is just another case of desiring to legislate punishment of the masses for the actions of the few. A majority of our legislation does exactly that.

"Individual" liberty is self-explanatory as well. Its content precludes one-size-fits all legislation.

Interestingly enough, my worst PTSD came from a vehicle accident. I had flashbacks from that for years afterwards. And it took me 2 years to get back onto a motorcycle, and the first time I rode I had to pull over after 5 minutes and shook like a leaf for 15 minutes.

And to this day, almost 24 years later I am often times almost a wreck, and feel that every single car driver on the road is out to run me over. But that does not make me want to get my gun and go around shooting people in cars who do stupid things that almost get me killed on the freeway.

This thread really is not about guns at all, but about persecuting veterans.

More specifically veterans who receive a disability check. I think Whitehall believes they should be punished by having their guns taken away for getting a disability check.

And I'd say that disability check is proof they've been punished enough. Seems somehow wrong to turn around and take away a right they gave something up to defend.
 

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