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2010-09-04 Home Front: Culture Wars

Iraq Veteran Stripped of Right To Bear Arms

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Posted by Anonymoose 2010-09-04 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11129 views ] Top

#1 ATF. Weren't they Bill Clinton's gustapo back when he was POTUS? Looks like Hussein has his little group of enforcers.

Posted by Angirong Hupaviger9578 2010-09-04 00:24|| 2010-09-04 00:24|| Front Page Top

#2 Our gun laws are totally f*cked up.

Posted by badanov 2010-09-04 00:33|| http://www.freefirezone.org 2010-09-04 00:33|| Front Page Top

#3 I could see restricting his access to firearms if he had shown a violent form of PTSD, but that's about it. I'd also expect them to lift it when he got things sorted out. Even if he can't use or buy them, but why can't his wife? She's not PTSD or have any restrictions? I mean how many PTSD folks have gone around and a gun blitz? Isn't there far more Postal employees and communist, eco-terrorists doing this? Besides the fact, wouldn't he be more suicidal than attack another? Maybe I'm just speaking out my backside, but oh well.

Posted by msicellaneous 2010-09-04 08:37|| 2010-09-04 08:37|| Front Page Top

#4 This happened to a good friend of mine who did two tours in Vietnam as a Marine. He later became a police officer. He lost his rights to carry or own a firearm. One declared incompetent, it is ~~nearly~~ impossible to get out from under the label. Your Constitutional rights are severely limited--worse than a convicted criminal. A convicted criminal in many cases can have his rights restored. Our gun laws are totally f*cked up.

Posted by JohnQC 2010-09-04 10:15|| 2010-09-04 10:15|| Front Page Top

#5 Our gun laws are totally fucked up, first they come for the felons, then the so called insane, then the so called incompetents, soon... very soon, morons will join the list.

At that point I fear for our Republic.

Posted by Shipman 2010-09-04 11:25|| 2010-09-04 11:25|| Front Page Top

#6 When a government ceases to be a custodian of our rights and starts being a preventative agent, abuses occur. A lot of abuses.

Ship, that statement is too dumb by half even for you!

Posted by badanov 2010-09-04 11:34|| http://www.freefirezone.org 2010-09-04 11:34|| Front Page Top

#7 Ship, that statement is too dumb by half even for you!

No...that seems about right.

Posted by Secret Asian Man 2010-09-04 11:44|| 2010-09-04 11:44|| Front Page Top

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Posted by OldSpook 2010-09-04 11:53|| 2010-09-04 11:53|| Front Page Top

#9 By the way this oughta be more under non-WOT than WOT-background.

Have a good holiday weekend all, Im goin fishing.

Posted by OldSpook 2010-09-04 11:57|| 2010-09-04 11:57|| Front Page Top

#10 I am tired of these long-running feuds. OldSpook, you and Shipman don't like each other, and that's fine. But I see no reason why the rest of us have to put up with it. I sinktrapped your comment, above, for that reason.

Posted by trailing wife 2010-09-04 13:05|| 2010-09-04 13:05|| Front Page Top

#11

Shipman: for some reason you've developed a talent for pissing off multiple people. That's unfortunate, though perhaps you have a future as a Democrat. In the meantime, we mods are unhappy that you're causing trouble for the Burg.

You know the rules. Play by them. Consider this a final opportunity.

AoS

Posted by Steve White 2010-09-04 13:57|| 2010-09-04 13:57|| Front Page Top

#12 I don't understand why Shipman is being warned. So we can't piss people off anymore? I took Shipman's post as a warning against over-reacting. Dopey me.

Posted by Deacon Blues 2010-09-04 20:14|| 2010-09-04 20:14|| Front Page Top

#13 Our government seems to take any opportunity to restrict our ability to bear arms - 'never let a crisis go to waste.' They confiscated guns here during Katrina (and despite court order, have returned very few in usable condition.) They have used Hurricane Earl as an excuse to limit gun transport in NC. (Note that both LA and NC are generally speaking gun-friendly states!) Using PTSD as a blanket excuse to take guns away fits the model (specific cases, for necessary times, is probably appropriate.)
What the 'people' seem to be ignorant of, but the government is VERY aware of, is that the Second Amendment was written for one specific reason - to make it less difficult for the people to rise up and overthrow the government. I doubt it will ever come to that, because the government has been very effective at taking over the education process, such that there are just not very many people left who CAN even concieve of rebelling against the government.

Posted by Glenmore 2010-09-04 20:16|| 2010-09-04 20:16|| Front Page Top

#14 Glenmore: the more the government works to disenfranchise those who have fought for them, the easier rebellion against the union becomes to conceive.

Posted by Thing From Snowy Mountain 2010-09-04 21:08|| 2010-09-04 21:08|| Front Page Top

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