🚀 go-pugleaf

ed i see it like this...it is not you concern to be involved...it might
happen, but who is to say that it will?

<ed@scredco.net> wrote in message
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> I am a pro gun owner, so don't get this message wrong.  Recently,
> however, a friend of mine divorced his wife.  His wife owns a few
> guns and practices (legal) firing in the basement.  These people
> have three wonderful kids.
>
> My concern is this.  Both the person and his wife are nice people
> but they drink and smoke marijauna often.  If the wife were to
> become depressed after the divorce, drink and smoke up a lot, and
> one day figure her kids have no future, might this not affect her
> judgement?
>
> Neither the husband nor wife are violent, and I believe they have a
> "right" to own guns, but the fact that this person obtained all of
> the guns in the LAST YEAR is of concern.
>
> Another concern is that depression tends to take quite a toll on
> people, and people who take drugs and liquor regularly tend to do so
> because "everyday life" is too difficult to cope with without some
> degree of mind alteration.  In this case, everyday life, at least
> for the mother, will become much more complicated.
>
> My question is this:   Why isn't there a question, anywhere on the
> gun form, about how often people take drugs and/or liquor, what
> kinds they take, and how often and how much?  The form asks only
> about "prescribed" drugs.
>
> Can any drunk person or drug user qualify for a gun as long as he
> hasn't been convicted?
>
> As any woman who has divorced knows, a woman with three kids,
> suddenly on her own, and without much education is headed for a few
> years of extreme depression.