NRA SUPPORTS MENTAL PATIENTS’ RIGHTS TO OWN GUNS

by R J Shulman

WASHINGTON – (PTSD News Service) – The National Rifle Association announced today that they are in support of Second Amendment rights applying to one of America’s most vulnerable groups, the mentally ill. “It’s important that a good mentally ill person with a gun has the ability to protect themselves from a bad mentally ill person with a gun,” said NRA Executive Vice-President Wayne LaPierre. 

The NRA will support legislation to make it easier for the mentally ill, including the criminally insane to obtain firearms.  LaPierre said that it was especially important to provide recently released mental patients the peace of mind that gun ownership brings because they need to be prepared in the event a mental patient they knew in the nuthouse breaks out and comes gunning for them. 

LaPierre pointed out, “even, crazy homicidal unbalanced Americans have a right to protect themselves from Islamic terrorists."  LaPierre concluded by saying, “everybody knows that mental institutions would be a whole lot safer if they were not gun free zones.”