My uncle was in Vietnam as an army ranger for 6 years and trained troops for another 10 or so after that. He has killed a lot of people and has PTSD in a bad way. He is heavily medaled and was shot 6 times. 3 times while dragging his brothers through the mud to safety.

I bring him up because I consider his opinion on gun matters well informed.

He thinks guys like this clown are morons. He thinks all these guys have no idea what the actual experience of killing and war is like. He understands we live in a society that sensationalizes such affairs. He knows better.

He laughs because most of the gun ho vets he meets were the ones who never fired a shot or killed someone during their service. Even guys right there in the thick who were suppliers just don't get it.

He laughs at war movies and film violence because he knows what it is really like. He thinks the NRA and those devout gun nuts are idiots.

Talk to the people who were "first in, last out" and you will hear a very sobering perspective. These are men that fought wars to end wars, not the other way around, and they are paying for it with a life of quietly hidden suffering and turmoil. They never brag and boast and they keep quiet because nobody wants to hear their perspective as it goes against the grain of war machine USA.