Wish I could sleep like a baby with two eyes closed… PTSD…. I got it from the war, and no matter how much I try to sleep normal, I can’t! It is really hard to deal with, but the MJ help greatly as long as I puff before bed time. The only thing that sucks is I get a weed hangover, because that is how much I have to smoke to knock my ass out. Once in a while I will just eat a fire cracker, and wake up high the next day, and that’s nice. As for a gun, I will have one soon. I got so used to having my best friend (your gun in the Army) close to my side, that now I know that it will cure my sleeping problems. Just to put it into perspective; It’s not that I am scared that Jonny Jihads is going to bust in on me, but that something is going to go wrong in general, and that is the core of my disability. One noise and I am out of bed. They say that animals pick up on this type of behavior from the owner, and my pit has picked this up as well. She is my guard when I do my nightly patrols around the property. Any loud boom will send me into a panic attack because it puts me right back into the war as if I had never left it. So what is a gun to anyone that knows how to use it correctly? Protection… That is what it means to me and many others. On the other side you have punk ass kids (that never grow up) and idiots that never had proper training on handling a weapon doing stupid shit all the time that eventually gets someone killed, and then you get all this guff on the media about gun control, but this is the facts of life that we have no control over, other than banning the weapons that man has relied upon for protection for hundreds of years. Fuck that I am an American and I love the fact that we are able to have our weapons, god forbid this country if they make us out to be like the nancies in the UK or Canada. These people can’t own a side arm or gun for that matter. I just want to live my life out on this Earth on my terms, the Man doesn’t affect my life (other than sending me to Iraq) as long as I keep quit and go about my business without bringing trouble to my doorstep, than things will run smoothly.