This blaming those of us mentally ill for your fucking gun problems is getting tiresome.

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66. it's so scary how the current state of mental-health care leaves people in your situation...

... in the position of having to make, literally, life-and-death decisions about how best to care for the health and happiness of their loved one.

You had a doctor and a therapist on your team, and yet you were the one who would have had to live (I honestly didn't mean that to be, like, a pun) with the results of giving him access to a gun. What a terrible burden to place on an untrained person.

It was really kind and loving of you to allow him to hunt and to provide in this situation--I bet it made a big difference to his well-being. I have to admit that I wouldn't have had that courage, but it obviously meant a lot to your husband. He sounds very self-aware, too.

I think you're right about access to guns--plenty of people who are just pissed but not mentally ill shouldn't be allowed access to guns. There's mental illness and there's just being an asshole. Given that the vast majority of the mentally ill aren't violent, I'd rather restrict the assholes' gun access, if that were possible.