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"I beg to differ with Mrs. Jazmond Murphy's concept of supporting the Second Amendment. For one thing she is already halfway to a gun controller's paradise when she makes a firearm so hard to get working that it cannot be realistically used in a blitz home invasion. I note that nowhere in her letter does she mention firearms safety training for her son to demystify the forbidden fruit she has created.
For another thing, what does she mean by "no history of mental illness"? The range of mental illness is as wide and varied as cancer. Do you have a history of postpartum depression? Then by that wide standard, you shouldn't own a gun. Are you suffering grief, depression and survivor's guilt from losing a loved one in an accident? Are you having anxiety attacks from being stalked by an ex-lover? Do you have post traumatic stress disorder from getting mugged, maimed in a car wreck, raped, gang raped, or terribly scarred by burns or surgery? Are you having bad tornado dreams because your house came apart around you here in tornado alley? Then by Mrs. Murphy's wide standard, you shouldn't have a gun. And if any of this happens to you and results in mental trauma, then you'll have to turn yours in. By this standard, those who become the most vulnerable will be denied the most effective means of self defense. Is Mrs. Murphy by any chance volunteering to stand guard over them?
For that matter, what about Police who often are badly affected by their traumatic experiences, and sometimes end their careers with a bad case of guninmouthia? Does one hear those who know just what to do about everything proposing to take their guns away? Or do we not count them because that last act puts an end to their histories? By the same token, do we ignore the Police who have been killed with their own guns, in creating reasons for who shouldn't have them? That would seem to depend less on any objective standard than someone's personal politics.
It's easier to tell,
others what to do,
if their experiences aren't real,
unless they happen to you."
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