I must say this was long overdue. VA’s take was if you have mental issues then you have financial issues. If you have financial issues, well sheesh, you probably suffer from suicidal or homicidal ideation. Therefore, to protect you from yourself, VA takes away your right to be in charge of your finances on the off chance you might spend it all on drugs and liquor. And based on that, you probably shouldn’t have any guns around when you’re drunk and stoned. Right?
Unfortunately, this makes you defenseless if you experience a home invasion. It also grossly violates the law because only a real Judge could find you incompetent enough to warrant adjudging you insane. Being the VA, that doesn’t slow them down a bit. If you want them big VA comp. bucks Bubba, you gotta play VA poker by the rules-even if they violate your due process.
So, those eeeeeeevil, gun-loving republican idiots in Congress decided to create a big problem. They said VA doesn’t get any more wampum until they get rid of that crazy gun rule. They insist on VA obeying the laws as Congress wrote them and take away VA’s power to disarm us. Shut the front door, huh?
So, don’t get me wrong. There are some-maybe quite a few- who walk the earth who probably shouldn’t be entrusted with firearms- both Veteran and non-Veteran. However, there’s a legal process already in place to ensure these souls are nurtured and prevented from access to weapons. Veterans are no different than their civilian counterparts. This isn’t Animal Farm where some pigs are more equal than other pigs. There can only be one legal standard of review. We were entrusted with not only guns when we served but some of the absolutely coolest explosives, grenades, machineguns and cannons known to man.
I remember one guy who might not qualify. Last name was Morfmann. He’d look you in the eye and say “You can tell it’s Mattel™.” Then he’d chug off about ten rounds out of his Pig and add the rejoinder- “It’s swell.”.” Now, granted he might be certifiable fifty years later but I’d still trust him with a gun.
Paraphrasing Martin Luther King, we should be judged not by the color of our uniforms, but by the content of our character. This was long overdue. I hope it passes. Veterans deserve better.
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