Should Gun Restrictions Be Placed on Veterans With PTSD?

By artappraiser on Sat, 04/27/2013 - 1:59pm |

By Thomas James Brennan, At War blog @ nytimes.com, April 26, 2013

Summary of expert opinion in the article: Yes. No. Maybe sometimes in rare instances. Maybe other times that would add to the problem by humiliation. Maybe we should be safe and not sorry; maybe if we do that we will make things worse.

Unsaid but implied: We in medicine don't want to admit it, but we are only in the infancy of understanding what causes things like violent behavior and homicidal ideation, and about when homicidal ideation and thoughts of violence are acted out and when they aren't, and we disagree about the few things we claim to know about those things.

URL:

http://atwar.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/04/26/should-gun-restrictions-be-placed-on-veterans-with-ptsd/?src=recg