Gun reports scream of need for both sides to calm down

If everyone is screaming about what has to be done, nothing will get done right. The NRA side does not want "assault weapons" banned and want to go after people with mental illness. Ok, then what does this say about the veterans with PTSD? Veterans/gun owners with PTSD are afraid to go to the VA for help with PTSD because they do not want to give up their guns. Is that helping them to "save their lives" as we were told when all of these suicide prevention bills came out? No, it is keeping them away from help. The logic of the congress was that taking away guns would cut down on suicides but while the typical means of suicides has been guns, no one is talking about the reason the numbers have gone up.

The Democrats have been just as wrong because they ignore the fact bullets kill people and they are easier to get than guns. They want to do background checks, which most people support on both sides but they don't seem to be talking much about the ability to buy bullets with nothing more than the money to pay for them. Criminals get talked about a lot but again, they wouldn't be able to load their guns if they couldn't buy bullets. Does it matter if a gun can hold more bullets if they can't get the bullets anymore?

Veterans are falling into all this mess and it will take everyone talking to each other to find the right answer. Here's an example of what all this is doing. People need to clam down so they can start to listen to the other side.

Arrest of decorated former Fort Drum soldier raising bloggers' ire
By David C. Shampine
Watertown Daily Times, N.Y.
Published: February 10, 2013

WATERTOWN, N.Y. — Bloggers are storming Jefferson County with their anger and disbelief over the arrest in January of a former Fort Drum soldier because he had in his car an empty “large capacity ammunition feeding device.”

The shower of criticism, which takes direct aim at the sheriff’s and district attorney’s offices, is fueling a defense fund for Nathan H. Haddad, 32, of 25240 Waddingham Road, town of LeRay, that at the latest report had grown to more than $34,500.

His brother, Michael Haddad, Jamestown, who spearheaded the show of support, has set a $100,000 goal.

Michael Haddad could not be reached Friday for comment, but in a blog he wrote, “The purpose of this fund was to be able to provide a vigorous, tenacious and viable defense for an honorable man who served his country and is now a victim of a government that has taken routine actions and criminalized them.”

Nathan Haddad was arrested on the evening of Jan. 6 on Steinhilber Road in the town of LeRay by a Jefferson County sheriff’s deputy on five felony counts of third-degree criminal possession of a weapon. He did not possess weapons or ammunition in his car, but had five 30-round AR-15 magazines for ammunition. He was not jailed, but awaits grand jury action on charges that, if he is convicted, could bring him a prison sentence.

One of the early bloggers who took up Mr. Haddad’s cause alleged that he was being charged under New York’s recently legislated gun laws, which were passed in reaction to the Newtown, Conn., school massacre, but were not yet in effect.
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