Tuesday, December 02, 2014

Infringing on Veteran's Gun Rights. . . to infringe on everyone's gun rights

By Douglas V. Gibbs

Michael Connelly says that the Obama administration is trying to disarm America's Heroes.  Horror stories about the Veteran's Administration and the Obama administration working to disarm our veterans in the name of mental illness or physical disability are all too common.  A friend of mine who served in the Middle East told me that many veterans suffer from PTSD, but will not say anything because to do so is to open the door for the federal government to begin taking away their rights, beginning with their gun rights.  Even having your wife, he told me, paying the bills could be grounds for being considered incompetent, and therefore not allowed to own a firearm.

The uninformed, or those that have no problem with the government taking other people's rights, as long as theirs are left alone, see no problem with the strategy.  However, it is only a matter of time before the tactic goes beyond the veterans, and to everyone in American Society.

Confiscation in the name of mental illness seems fair enough to most folks, on the surface, but when the government is the agency that defines what mental incapacity is, at what point do we realize that they definitions are politically motivated, and is targeting those they see as a threat against government power?

The definition will continue to broaden, until the very desire to own a firearm will be considered a mental instability, and grounds to disarm someone.

Tyranny always seeks to disarm its opposition.

-- Political Pistachio Conservative News and Commentary

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