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Denninmi

(6,581 posts)
Thu Dec 27, 2012, 01:32 PM Dec 2012

I'm causing trouble over in GD again. [View all]

Some guy on the Hot Topics forum of Gardenweb pissed me off by saying that anyone with a bipolar or similar psychiatric diagnosis is automatically put on the prohibited persons list for the instant background check to buy a gun. Like three times. Even after I cited the section of USC to him through a direct link to a 200 plus page ATF document about federal gun laws and the instant background check and then told him which pages to read.

Not sure why it pisses me off SO much -- the fact that people assume that a mental health diagnosis automatically makes me stupid, or the fact that they are so quick to assume facts not in evidence. Either way, probably unwisely, I started trouble on GD.

Why, oh why, can't I just behave myself?

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