An attack on gun rights
Obama’s Veteran Administration urging family members to take guns from vets. If I tried that with my dad, he’d shoot me.
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May 17th, 2012 at 9:13 am
I really wonder when folks will figure it out.
The danger is not Obama, and the solution is not Romney (or even Paul). I doubt Obama even knows what the VA does; and Romney wouldn’t care.
The danger is a Congress that writes broad legislation, then leaves the details to a massive bureaucracy that is running on autopilot and is out of control, and the courts who interpret regulations drafted by bureaucrats as if such rules had been drafted specifically by those we elected.
The federal bureaucracy has to be culled, and severely. A bureaucrat looking to make his bones, get a raise or a bonus, or just plain bored is a dangerous creature.
May 17th, 2012 at 9:56 am
As the document is undated, it would be interesting to see whose adminstration actually produced it…
May 17th, 2012 at 12:01 pm
My father-in-law, a WWII veteran of 88 years age, suffered over the past 10 years from diabetes, blindness due to macular degeneration, congestive heart failure, and a wife of 60+ years in early stages of senile dementia. His 2 children living in the same town called and visited him often and saw to his medical needs and kept him as active as possible.
On Tuesday when his wife went out for a doctor’s appointment he committed suicide using an old 22 pistol, in an obviously well-thought-out and planned manner. He gave no warning that he planned to do this, and had spoken with all of his children in a normal manner over the several days before he pulled the trigger.
Killing himself as his physical condition worsened and his wife became senile does not, in retrospect, surprise me. He was always a very self-reliant and uncomplaining person who enjoyed life as much as possible (skiing again after a multiple bypass operation at age 80, for example). As his health worsened and his wife became more demented I think he performed an act keeping himself in control over his end, rather than allowing himself to sink into total dependency on others.
So the VA wants family members to secure firearms from veterans and avoid deaths like this one. Had he not had the handgun, he might have used his insulin, or some of his several other medications, or a kitchen knife, or just jumped off the balcony of his home. He had very full use of his mind up to the end.
Sorry, VA, my father-in-law died the way he chose. He might have preferred to fall asleep one night and just not wake up, but the choice was his, not yours.
May 17th, 2012 at 12:01 pm
A second Obama Administration will put up more and more attempts to disarm veterans, and I’m not all that confident a Romney Administration would end that Unconstitutional policy.
Fact: the pols on the Left are VERY worried about millions of Veterans who swore to protect the Constitution with their lives, and who now see that it needs far more protection here at home than in foreign wars. Add in the fact that the veterans know how to fight, and you see a very worried Big Brother.
I am shortly going to be evaluated by the VA for Agent Orange related disability. I will probably be asked about my guns. If I’m in the mood to answer, I’ll tell them I have guns and used to hunt with them, and plan on hunting again. I will tell them that I have not only Military training in safe and legal handling of guns, I am a certified NRA RSO who keeps his guns locked up when they are not in use. Before I give that statement however, I will ask why the question is part of a medical evaluation to determine the causes of my disability.
May 17th, 2012 at 2:53 pm
Medical ethics boundary violation.
Hand me or a relative of mine such a tract, and your license to practice medicine in my state will be reviewed by the state medical board.
May 17th, 2012 at 2:55 pm
Rivrdog:
Ask the doctor if he is a trained firearms safety instructor.
If he answers no, tell him he just committed an ethics boundary violation, and that you will be filing a complaint with the state medical board.
May 17th, 2012 at 8:11 pm
In a camel’s nose/tent way, I say kick the camel in the nostrils. On the other side, I once checked in on my grandmother after work. The newspaper, with the image of a stove eye, was a very disturbing reminder. Dementia is not a joke. I also think that, being responsible, ordinary, everyday ‘kinda folks. Well, we can handle it. Now, kick the camel in the nose again.
May 17th, 2012 at 11:20 pm
I think I have had more luck convincing family members to buy guns than they will ever have luck taking mine. If anyone else wants ’em they can come and get ’em.
May 17th, 2012 at 11:59 pm
Hell,
I helped buy a pistol for my father. Can you say “morons”?
May 18th, 2012 at 11:42 am
There are a lot of people that are critical and scared of guns. That is because they do not know how to handle or shoot one. Not knowing how to use a gun is like not knowing how to swim because you are scared of the water. But both can save your’s or someone else’s life if you learn how.