{"id":5325,"date":"2010-07-20T23:37:00","date_gmt":"2010-07-20T23:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/2010\/07\/20\/disarming-elderly\/"},"modified":"2019-08-16T18:11:26","modified_gmt":"2019-08-16T18:11:26","slug":"disarming-elderly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/?p=5325","title":{"rendered":"Disarming the Elderly"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:19271,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.examiner.com\\\/x-1417-Gun-Rights-Examiner~y2010m7d20-Will-disarming-elderly-be-next-gun-control-push&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/examiner.com&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:19272,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/newoldage.blogs.nytimes.com\\\/2010\\\/07\\\/14\\\/guns-in-frail-hands\\\/?scp=2&amp;sq=guns&amp;st=cse&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/archive.nytimes.com\\\/newoldage.blogs.nytimes.com\\\/2010\\\/07\\\/14\\\/guns-in-frail-hands\\\/?scp=2&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p>David Codrea has written <a href=\"http:\/\/www.examiner.com\/x-1417-Gun-Rights-Examiner~y2010m7d20-Will-disarming-elderly-be-next-gun-control-push\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">an excellent article on the elderly and firearms<\/a> in his Examiner Gun Rights column. The article was in reaction to a New York Times &#8220;health&#8221; article entitled <a href=\"http:\/\/newoldage.blogs.nytimes.com\/2010\/07\/14\/guns-in-frail-hands\/?scp=2&amp;sq=guns&amp;st=cse\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">&#8220;Guns in Frail Hands&#8221;.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Codrea speculates that with an aging population in the United States this may be next front for gun control advocates.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>Which leads us to a ripe-for-exploiting &#8220;loophole&#8221; (that&#8217;s what the anti&#8217;s call anything impeding total control, don&#8217;t they?) of sorts:<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Families find little help in the law when trying to pry guns away from impaired family members.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><em>Except there really is no gap in law. It&#8217;s just that:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<\/em>The federal Brady Act bars gun sales to anyone adjudicated mentally \u201cdefective,\u201d a legal process few children want to put parents through.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It really does get down to taking responsibility for our elderly relatives and making the hard decisions. I know of what I speak. I buried my Mom two years ago after a four year stay in a nursing home with advanced dementia. There were hard decisions that needed to be made including the very first one about getting her into a nursing home &#8211; a place she didn&#8217;t want to be but she needed to be.<\/p>\n<p>Codrea sums it up by saying:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>We have an aging population. Many of us still have parents, others of us are starting to realize we ourselves aren&#8217;t getting any younger. The decisions we are or will be faced with aren&#8217;t easy ones. That means there is no one-size-fits all solution where we can just pass another &#8220;gun control&#8221; law and consider the problem solved.<\/p>\n<p>We need to have this discussion in the gun community, to develop tools and resources to help us help ourselves and our loved ones.<\/p>\n<p>Or we could just let government take over and make the best decisions for us.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>He is absolutely correct. We need to have this conversation and we don&#8217;t need a one-size fits all sort of law imposed by our &#8220;betters&#8221; from on high.<\/p>\n<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>David Codrea has written an excellent article on the elderly and firearms in his Examiner Gun Rights column. 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