Should people with Aspergers be able to own guns?

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Well, it would appear we have some spirited debate here. Usually that's what happens when someone brings up gun ownership rights.

MY opinion... well, it can best be summed up in the research paper that I wrote for my Composition and Rhetoric final. If anyone wants to view the full document, I will post it in my WP blog for posterity. But I'll use a few snippets here.

Basically I support Second Amemdment rights for everyone except felons and serious mental illness cases. For the latter, it would have to be a case in which there is significant probability of that person harming someone, and would have to be confirmed by a doctor or similar. Firstly, the police cannot protect you. Even if the police force in most American cities was at it's maximum potential, it would be impossible for them to prevent EVERY crime. Sooner or later, someone is going to have to defend themselves without police assistance, and it's cases like this where a firearm comes in very handy:

Of course. Aspies are not crazy or dangerous. On the contrary, Aspies, are saner than Normals, by and large.

ruveyn

I have a few guns and have used them perfectly safely. When I handle a gun, I focus heavily on safety.

People don't realize how easy it is to make a longbow or flatbow that'll be equally useful in giving its user the ability to kill stuff as a firearm. I can make one in a week, and it'll kill anything on this planet with a single shot. I own bows and firearms, and I really can't tell you which one is better for killing stuff, as they both have their pluses and minuses.

But anyway, firearm restrictions can decrease the deaths inflicted via firearms (proven here in Oz), it's just that deaths caused via other means rise (proven here in Oz); so what's actually the point when it equals out? If you're shot or clubbed in an emotional fit of rage by an angry spouse you cheated on or something, it doesn't really matter in the end.

Should Republicans be allowed to own guns?

Should people with Aspergers be able to own guns?



I’d say that’s up to each individual aspie and not anyone else.
I, for example, have a lot of guns and will always have a lot of guns.
A loaded .40 caliber Glock pistol is in my desk drawer right now where I’m sitting writing this. It’s also my carry gun since I have a concealed carry permit.
And if that’s not scary enough for you I’m also a range officer at one of the local shooting ranges so when I’m on duty there I supervise others shooting and have responsibility for the entire complex.

I refuse to be a sheep or a peasant and don’t have much use for anyone that is.
I won’t have anyone telling me I can’t own guns, either.
I’m going to have them one way or another, legal or not.

I don’t go looking for trouble and never have. I don’t think most people with Asperger’s do but that doesn’t mean trouble won’t find us despite our best efforts otherwise.

And forget this “Gun Free” zone BS, too. About all that means is that it’s a safe haven for armed criminals to operate un-opposed.
If you were going to do a massacre wouldn’t a “gun free” zone be the perfect place?
Think about it.

Let’s stop looking for the government to make our personal decisions!
They have too much control as it is so we need to take as much as we can upon ourselves.
I could see if we were ret*d but we’re not so let’s not act like it or expect to be treated like it.

how else are we going to be able to protect ourselves from NT's?

seriously.

If they can pass the conceal/carry course..yes. I think people with Asperger's need one more than most people so they can protect themselves. They should be taught at the carry conceal or other course when they need to shoot and when not. My parents say I'd be too trigger happy if I had a gun but I think if I learn not only how to use a gun but learn but also when I really needed too.

Sure.
Why not?
Of course!
Heck yeah.
By jove...everyone, pick up your piece...let's have some fun.
Fine and dandy...OH YES!!

Why, of course.........let everyone in the world own a gun. that would be truly ruly dandy.
let's all own guns.
let's all play with them.
why...let's just let everyone in the world have the right to bear arms.

pow.
kaboom.
ping, whistle.....


in the words of the beach boys...

"wouldn't it be nice..."

Asperger's and HFA are neurological conditions not mental illness or mental defectiveness. I had at
one time eleven rifles, two shotguns and three black powder revolvers when I was still living on
Long Island. I might start buying guns again when I can afford to do so. As for keeping myself safe
right now I don't go out at night and I carry pepper spray or chemical mace.