tazzygirl
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Im sorry you feel that way. I still post many links, offer much support for my position. If you are not seeing them, as I realize your time is limited, I dont know what to say to you. My point in this thread was rather simple. We never know the mental status of anyone we may consider close or someone we can help. Lock up your weapons. Dont trust anyone with something that can potentially kill you. We have far too many willing to play weekend therapist and these men should have known better, in my opinion. The more that comes out on this incident the more that fact should be driven home. Leaving weapons around is simply too dangerous anymore. The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs estimates that PTSD afflicts: Almost 31 percent of Vietnam veterans As many as 10 percent of Gulf War (Desert Storm) veterans 11 percent of veterans of the war in Afghanistan 20 percent of Iraqi war veterans http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/magazine/issues/winter09/articles/winter09pg10-14.html These are men who are trained to handle these weapons. Yet, according to those stats, if you know 10 vets, at least one may suffer from PTSD. Does that mean they will snap? No. But the likelihood is there. Why do people take these chances? Not only with their own lives, but with the lives of their families and friends? And, frankly, I think you may have missed some of my posts as well. To assume I got pulled into the "ping pong match" here feels like a put down. I feel passionately about guns because of the patients I have cared for after suicide attempts and then all I see are "gun related deaths" being toted as the number to concentrate on. So, if you feel I, as a gun owner myself, am coming down too harshly upon those who owns guns, you really have to explain that one to me. If you doubt why I am so passionate about this, google the phrase... gunshot wound to face pictures Should clear up any doubt.
< Message edited by tazzygirl -- 2/9/2013 10:15:06 PM >
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Telling me to take Midol wont help your butthurt. RIP, my demon-child 5-16-11 Duchess of Dissent 1 Dont judge me because I sin differently than you. If you want it sugar coated, dont ask me what i think! It would violate TOS.
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