{"id":63733,"date":"2016-01-08T09:16:47","date_gmt":"2016-01-08T14:16:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=63733"},"modified":"2016-01-08T18:07:52","modified_gmt":"2016-01-08T23:07:52","slug":"art-leal-and-pts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=63733","title":{"rendered":"Art Leal and PTS"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Art<\/a><\/center><\/p>\n

According to Your Basin News<\/a>, there’s a fellow by the name of Art Leal who is handing out these cards to business owners when he sees someone carrying a weapon openly in their establishment in Odessa, Texas;<\/p>\n

\"Art<\/a><\/center><\/p>\n

It says that Art is a combat veteran who suffers from PTS and that he won’t be back to the business to spend his pennies because the sight of a gun triggers his PTS. I’m sure that the business owners are relieved that he won’t be back in Art Leal’s case. See Art is a Democrat politician who clearly has an agenda – to pander to the anti-gun nuts. I’m guessing that there are a few of those in Texas.<\/p>\n

I was going to do a FOIA on Art, but there’s really no justification for that. He claims<\/a> that he was a tank mechanic on an M-88 tank-recovery vehicle in the 24th Division during Desert Storm and that he’s 30% disabled. It would surprise me if someone lied about that and then made the blatantly disingenuous claim that the sight of a handgun triggering the PTS. In the article, a therapist takes up for Art;<\/p>\n

“The mental scars and the mental recognition people have from that traumatic event the battle field and can go on for years and years,” [Dr. Sudip Bose] said.<\/p>\n

Those scars are the reason why Leal’s passes out small cards to businesses allowing open carry. He wants to remind them and gun owners he suffers from PTSD and open carry could be a trigger for him or others with the condition.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I dispute that. It seems to me that Leal is just being a Drama Queen. Yes, he’s a combat veteran, in a very remote sense, but using that for his own political purposes doesn’t help the rest of us when he uses it to be a big crybaby. These guys are as bad as vegans who use their dietary choices as the first topic of conversations with new acquaintances. I’m not a big advocate of “open carry”, but bed-wetting Art Leal and his phony microagression doesn’t do anything useful for anyone except advance his own name-recognition and not in a good way.<\/p>\n

\"Art<\/a><\/center><\/p>\n

ADDED:<\/strong> This triggers my rage;<\/p>\n

\"Art<\/a><\/center><\/p>\n

This beret triggers my rage:<\/p>\n

\"Art<\/a><\/center><\/p>\n

This triggers my rage;<\/p>\n

\"Lail<\/a><\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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