{"id":113268,"date":"2025-11-12T20:45:49","date_gmt":"2025-11-13T02:45:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=113268"},"modified":"2025-11-12T20:45:49","modified_gmt":"2025-11-13T02:45:49","slug":"113268","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=113268","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"

Veterans Day 2025: Giffords Pushes More Gun Control for Veterans<\/a><\/p>\n

On Veterans Day 2025 Gabby Giffords\u2019 gun control group, Giffords, is pushing more gun control for veterans who avail themselves of Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) services.<\/p>\n

Giffords\u00a0posted to X<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Since 2006, veterans have died by suicide nearly 20 times more often than soldiers have been killed at war. Veterans deserve more than empty words. They deserve leaders who work to protect them.<\/p>\n

But many in Congress are stopping the VA from flagging when a veteran is at a heightened risk of harming themselves or others, and therefore shouldn\u2019t have access to a gun.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Giffords is complaining about the efforts Republicans have undertaken to end the VA\u2019s decades-long habit of blocking veterans\u2019 gun rights by reporting said veterans to the National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS) for actions as benign as needing help handling finances.<\/p>\n

Through the years, Breitbart News has warned of the situation wherein veterans who use a fiduciary to handle their finances face the threat of being reported by the VA and subsequently prohibited from gun purchases. The need for help in balancing finances \u2014 even for a time \u2014 is equated with mental health problems, and gun rights are revoked.<\/p>\n

Moreover, on February 21, 2016, Breitbart News\u00a0reported<\/a> that combat veterans from Iraq and Afghanistan who needed treatment for post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) were increasingly hesitant to pursue treatment because they feared a PTSD diagnosis would be used to deny their gun rights under the Obama administration.<\/p>\n

A combat vet confined to a wheelchair spoke to Breitbart News anonymously at the time, saying, \u201cI was diagnosed with PTSD. What\u2019s being done to be sure my guns aren\u2019t taken away?\u201d He said he lived with the added anxiety of questioning his every trip to the doctor, fearing that he was one visit away from having his gun rights snuffed out.<\/p>\n

Earlier this year, Rep. Eli Crane (R)\u2013a former U.S. Navy SEAL\u2013told<\/a>\u00a0Breitbart News\u00a0that Democrats who support the status quo on bureaucrats being able to strip away gun rights often claim they do so in order to help reduce suicide among veterans, particularly combat veterans. But Crane rejected this line of thinking, saying, \u201cWhen it comes to suicide, a lot of these individuals, a lot of veterans\u2026.who are struggling with PTSD and have some of these issues, one of [their] biggest issues is fear and trauma because [they] thought [they] might lose [their] life in battle against other people with guns.\u201d<\/p>\n

He suggested that taking away their guns now only serves to increase the feeling of defenselessness, thereby increasing feelings of fear and fueling the very suicides which Democrats claim they are trying to stop.<\/p>\n

Yet on this Veterans Day, Giffords is urging more gun control for veterans.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Veterans Day 2025: Giffords Pushes More Gun Control for Veterans On Veterans Day 2025 Gabby Giffords\u2019 gun control group, Giffords, is pushing more gun control for veterans who avail themselves of Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) services. Giffords\u00a0posted to X: Since 2006, veterans have died by suicide nearly 20 times more often than soldiers have … Continue reading “”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,4,8,74],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-113268","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-enemies-foreign-domestic","category-military","category-rkba","category-scratch-a-lib-find-a-tyrant"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113268","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=113268"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113268\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":113269,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113268\/revisions\/113269"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=113268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=113268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=113268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}