EVERY time I go to the VA clinic they ask me if I am experiencing emotional problems or thoughts of suicide. I told my wife last year,” I think that they are trying to label us all as “Mentally disturbed and too unstable to own firearms”
Well, here we are!
“Just because you’re paranoid doesn’t mean that they are NOT out to get you.”
The VA is paranoid about the number of vets who are committing suicide. That is why they ask.
Veteran suicides are a bad thing and the VA is very, very sensitive about that. Believe it or not, they do care about you (most of the time) and they don’t want you to off yourself or anybody else (like the Washington Navy Yard shooter did). A large percentage of the folks who work at the VA are themselves veterans.
Like I said, it is very difficult to get someone declared incompetent to the point that they would make an issue about firearms ownership. The only ones I have seen declared incompetent were absolutely incompetent and no longer had decision-making capability about anything. Of course, owebama could issue a regal decree tomorrow that could change all of this.
Its like my boss told me a couple of weeks ago: “You are practicing in the only field of medicine in which ALL of your patients have been trained in the use of firearms.”
True; I do suffer from bouts of depression — possibly a very light case of PTSD. I'm careful not to make it seem too bad, precisely because I don't want to be disarmed: I don't trust government enough to "do the right thing"… especially not after Fast and Furious and the NSA-spying.