dc.fireman
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So, would it be accurate to infer that there needs to be a better system for identifying PTSD, and /or categorizing it? Like the various DHS Threat Condition levels?
"His gun rights were temporarily lost when he was PTSD Red/Orange, but when his condition was downgraded to Yellow, they were restored..."
I'm fully sympathetic to both sides of the issue, on the one hand, the only time our community hears about gun rights restoration, it's typically dealing with convicted felons.
But is this the message or overtone we'd be giving to a veteran of the GWOT? "I know you've served your country with honor and distinction, but you're gonna have to seek restoration for the very rights you stood up for before I can sell/ give you this firearm."
I deal with my own share of trashbags who abuse the system on a daily basis, and know full well that whenever there is any type of system, there's going to be someone who knows how to work it to their advantage, but it still leaves me with a sour feeling in my gut that even one guy who legitimately deserves a medical discharge, and disability compensation for it, who in the end get burned for doing something which most of us have not/could not/would not.
-tc
"His gun rights were temporarily lost when he was PTSD Red/Orange, but when his condition was downgraded to Yellow, they were restored..."
I'm fully sympathetic to both sides of the issue, on the one hand, the only time our community hears about gun rights restoration, it's typically dealing with convicted felons.
But is this the message or overtone we'd be giving to a veteran of the GWOT? "I know you've served your country with honor and distinction, but you're gonna have to seek restoration for the very rights you stood up for before I can sell/ give you this firearm."
I deal with my own share of trashbags who abuse the system on a daily basis, and know full well that whenever there is any type of system, there's going to be someone who knows how to work it to their advantage, but it still leaves me with a sour feeling in my gut that even one guy who legitimately deserves a medical discharge, and disability compensation for it, who in the end get burned for doing something which most of us have not/could not/would not.
-tc