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Grins

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28. You flipped the question!

Fri Jun 24, 2016, 05:37 PM

Jun 2016

You flipped the question missing the point.

The question is "Should those who take psychoactive medications (medically or not) be allowed guns?"

And the answer is no. Psychoactive drugs are consciousnesses altering medications that can produce a profound or significant effect on mental processes, and anyone who has family members suffering from clinical depression, anxiety, personality disorders, schizophrenia or bipolar disorders - that's a big deal. The threat of suicide for them is high as is that threat being turned on others.

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