| VetNet commentary report
LOS ANGELES- War veterans with any amount of PTSD stand to lose their 2nd amendment rights to bear arms. The House Bill #2640 sponsored by reps Carolyn McCarthy (NY) and Patrick Leahy (Vt) has already passed and is headed for the Senate.
What these short sighted and ungrateful lawmakers have done is to put our nation's heroes from all wars in the same category as the criminally insane. This poor attempt at lawmaking basically follows in the footsteps of the Clinton administration when it added some 83,000 veterans into the National Criminal Information System due to afflictions such as PTSD. |
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The ignorance of these so-called leaders goes beyond taking a constitutional right away from the men and women who have defended our constitution, it also mindlessly adds to an existing problem regarding PTSD. They obviously are not aware of the many combat vets who shy away from PTSD screening and treatment for fear of being stigmatized. Just ask any PTSD therapist or clinician working inside or outside of the VA. This bill would only give them another big reason to avoid the treatment they need and deserve. "It's this nation's responsibility to bend over backwards for these heroes rather than put their legal fate in the hands of a psychiatrist", says VetsNet's Dan Jacobs.
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