You're forgetting the tremendous irrationality of many hoplophobes. This sounds like the work of 3 suburban housewives with severe cases of hoplophobia (aggravated by way too much time on their hands), who really think nobody should have a gun in their home, and especially that nobody with children should have a gun in their home, and the idea of someone with an autistic child having a gun in their home sent them over the edge.
One of them has a kid who was picking on the autistic kid, and didn't like the father complaining about this to the bully's father. One or more of them may also have have mentioned their concern about the gun to the father at some point, and gotten the same sort of reaction from him that they would have gotten from you or me. At any rate, they (notably just the women -- apparently the husband who was at the receiving end of the complaint about the bullying didn't care to put his name on this insane court filing) decided the autistic kid's father was "a very violent, unstable and unpredictable man" (though apparently they couldn't provide even an allegation of a single incident in which he'd been violent), and when police and CPS and Continental Airlines all blew off their crazy complaints, they decided they had to go to court to avert a mass slaughter on their block.
Given that calls to 911, CPS, and Continental preceded the court filing, there was plenty of provocation for Mr. Trussle to demonstrate his "unpredictable" responses to these idiotic complaints, thus rendering the hoplophobic ladies apoplectic. I'm sure any one of us would have reacted to such calls and their fallout in a way that would cause these ladies to deem us "very violent, unstable and unpredictable". They've had their opportunity to tell their side of the story -- first to the court, which threw them out and ordered them to pay Mr. Trussle's legal expenses, and then to the media, to which they responded by fleeing into their homes (2 of them) and saying "no comment" (1 of them). I suspect these ladies are in deep doo-doo with their husbands (at least the ones who have husbands) for causing all this trouble and getting socked with the legal bills.
I hope the Trussles buy their autistic tot an arsenal of toy guns with which to drive these idiots out of the neighborhood.
I’m with you. It sounds like the father that got the “talking to” is a wussified lib too. I’d wager his life experience never included having his ass chewed by a retired Marine Lt. Col.
Strapped on my holster low across my hips,
Two Colt .45’s with black plastic grips;
And I’d head west through our neighborhood,
And they’d say,
“Here comes young Billy and he’s up to no good.”
I rode a trail through the neighbor’s backyard,
Shootin’ the Bad Guys through my handlebars.
Known for my bravery both far and near,
Bein’ late for supper was my only fear.
I miss Billy the Kid!
The times that he had!
The life that he lived!
I guess he must’ve got caught,
His innocence lost...
I wonder where he is?
I miss Billy the Kid!