Shooting Rekindles Issues of Gun Rights and Restrictions

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Are you, or is anyone in your family, a veteran who has suffered from Post Traumatic Stress?... Their "crime" was suffering from stress-related symptoms that often follow our decent men and women who have served their country overseas and fought the enemy in close combat. For all their patriotism, the Clinton administration deemed them as mentally "incompetent," sent their names for inclusion in the NICS system, and they are now prohibited from owning guns under 18 U.S.C. 922(g)(4).

Cry me a river. PTSD is a mental disorder. If you have a mental disorder or a history of mental disorder, I don't see why you should have full rights to owning a gun. I'm sorry if it's somehow insulting to tell these people that their mental disorder is--gasp--a mental disorder, but it is. Certainly not their fault for having it, but it's not a schizophrenic's fault that he has schizophrenia either.