King, Patton would've made a great football coach. He knew how to fire up the troops.
Robert, as Joe (who is a retired general) pointed out, there are indeed some Iraq/Afghanistan vets who will be disqualified from owning a gun due to mental issues. That is also true of Vietnam vets, and is (or was) true of Korean and WWII vets as well. A Vietnam vet with whom I served in the Reserves "flashed back" while he was hunting and nearly shot his hunting partner's son. At that point, he made the very wise decision to give up hunting.
If you can come up with evidence that Iraq/Afghanistan vets are being denied their gun rights unfairly, that's one thing. But posting a newspaper article that talks about how the federal database has been updated significantly since VA Tech to include far more mentally unstable people . . . sorry, I find that to be a GOOD thing, not a bad thing. Had it been done sooner, it might have prevented the VA Tech massacre. It's not a good thing if an unproportionately large number of those new names added to the database are vets. But that remains to be proven.
