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In reply to the discussion: I spent three weeks in a psychiatric treatment program, does that diminish me as a human being? [View all]uppityperson
(115,674 posts)Depression including postpartum, it depends as there is a HUGE range there.
You also wrote
"Postpartum depression has caused woman to murder their children. Bipolar disorder is a serious condition, mania causes sleeplessness, sometimes for days, along with hallucinations, psychosis, grandiose delusions, and/or paranoid rage. They do not need guns.
Dysthymia (depression) causes problems with concentration or making decisions almost every day, recurring thoughts of death or suicide, suicide plan, or suicide attempt - Again, no, they do not need guns."
And "some mentally ill people don't need guns. Not all mentally ill people, the ones who suffer from the illness's I listed above."
And " Not all mentally ill people will use a gun to mass kill" but you feel all should be penalized. You use the hypothetical situation, that mentally ill people sometimes kill, so no one who has had ANY sort of mental illness should have guns.
My answer? It depends on the mental illness.
Now you point out where I said Yates and Smith should have been sold guns. Point. It. Out.