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I don't really give a fuck about Feinstein one way or another, but this shit's getting all sorts of distorted.
These committee meetings have somewhat free-flowing conversation and speaking spontaneously you don't always phrase things exactly what was meant. Whatever my political opinions of Feinstein, she wasn't born yesterday, she knows PTSD isn't "new". But with Iraq/Afghanistan there is a currently "new" phenomenon of vets coming home from combat tours many of whom do have serious PTSD issues due to *very recent & raw* trauma. This is a population that didn't exist in say the late 90s before these wars.
I know a couple guys back from both places who struggle with that stuff daily. I've also seen people dear to me totally lose their shit because of PTSD from Vietnam or Korea, when a helicopter flew overhead or in one case when a fucking radio broadcast came on during the 1st Iraq war. In those instances, they were completely "back there" mentally, it was really really intense and scary for all involved. When a loved family member is huddled in a supermarket aisle because for all intents & purposes he's back at Chosin with frostbite in his feet and getting shot at by the Chinese and thinks he's going to die, and is screaming at you and everyone else nearby, welp... it's fucked up.
People suffering from frequent bouts of that could possibly be restricted from owning firearms. You might disagree with this, but it's a reasonable discussion to have.
CDSmith, as for people calling you out on a completely false and misrepresented quote that you chose for the title of your topic, what the hell do you expect? Like I mentioned before, if you wanna argue the merits of what was actually said - sure. But a lot of us couldn't care less about a made-up quote reposted ad nauseum by a bunch of tards, or an opinion column written by the same far-right shill who once wrote an article about how Fox News had too many left-wing commentators and needed to go further right.
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