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Originally Posted by Taltarzac725
Also lost a brother, Jim, of a sister-in-law a few months earlier in 2014. A paranoid schizophrenic who fell in love with guns and would not give them up so thrown out of the house by older brother. He was always too clever to say anything crazy enough to get him mental health treatment. After he killed himself, quite a long time later after the forced eviction, the cops got a look at his journals which showed just how troubled he was. My brother and sister-in-law saw these too. Guns and the mentally ill do not mix well but these are complicated issues. Too easy for enemies to use labels of mentally ill to get some kind of leverage or just win battles. Crooked timber of humanity and all that. Not a NOTHING quote from Immanuel Kant. Immanuel Kant - Wikiquote
The last quarter of 2014 was a very tough period for my older brother and his wife with the loss of both her only sibling and his youngest brother as well a few months apart. And both due to all consuming mental health and/or addiction problems. Jim was addicted to carrying those semi-automatic pistols around. My younger brother to alcoholism for decades. |
That’s a lot to say, Tal. I think you must be a very good man. Hats off to you.