Reply #29: You are speaking of an extreme case as if he were the middle of the bell curve.

[benEzra]

My 9-year-old son has mild cognitive delay, primarily expressed as a difficulty with mathematics and abstract geometry, due to 22q11.2 deletion syndrome. It would be bigoted in the extreme to say that because he has trouble with math and geometry, he should be denied the right to own a gun when he is of age, if he is otherwise responsible.



If he or anyone else someday becomes mentally incompetent, they can be adjudicated mentally incompetent by a court of law. But otherwise keep your civil rights restrictions off our family, please.

"Cognitive delay" does NOT equal "mentally incompetent."