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Ahmed D. Faheem, M.D. of Appalachian Psychiatric Services says that only a small proportion of people who have psychiatric conditions or are seeking psychiatric help have the tendency to be violent. Yet, he stresses that anyone in possession of a firearm needs to have the inhibition on whether or not to pull the trigger, even if they have a mental condition.
"You have to have the capacity and capability to understand and handle that responsibility," Faheem said. "When your inhibitions are down, we need those controls from the brain to think and to do what we are expected to do in a social way." |
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The government has the legitimate power to regulate commerce. Private sales are not commerce. The government has no legitimate authority to interfere. |
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I do believe that where there is a choice only between cowardice and violence, I would advise violence. Thus when my eldest son asked me what he should have done had he been present when I was almost fatally assaulted in 1908 [by an Indian extremist opposed to Gandhi's agreement with Smuts], whether he should have run away and seen me killed or whether he should have used his physical force which he could and wanted to use, and defend me, I told him it was his duty to defend me even by using violence. Hence it was that I took part in the Boer War, the so-called Zulu Rebellion and [World War I]. Hence also do I advocate training in arms for those who believe in the method of violence. I would rather have India resort to arms in order to defend her honor than that she should in a cowardly manner become or remain a helpless witness to her own dishonor. — Mohandas K. Gandhi, Young India, August 11, 1920 from Fischer, Louis ed.,The Essential Gandhi, 1962 |
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