Dismissive Tone

There's an old joke:

How many psychologists does it take to change a light bulb?

Just one, but the light bulb has to really want to change!

With regards to Florida's new EXTREME MEGA TACO SAFETY PROTECTIVE ORDERS!

That one of the biggest concerns is veterans with PTSD.

How best to say it but, "bitches please."

In the first place not every veteran gets post traumatic stress disorder.  Even vets who went to combat and saw some serious shit.

There's a percentage that never feel a moments remorse, regret or guilt let alone get traumatized by what they've seen.  The law of small numbers says that, although it's a small percentage, there's lot of veterans who just aren't affected by the experience negatively.

The percentage of people who get PTSD is larger, but still not the majority of veterans.  There's a ton of variables with it.  Some people are predisposed to be extra traumatized, some people would be fine but repeated exposure wears them down.

The good news is it's a well known and well understood condition which is fairly straight forward to treat and cure.

HURRAY!

As with all psychological trauma, the patient is key.  They have to want to get better.

Psychology isn't like normal medicine in this regard.  A broken leg will tend to heal whether the sufferer wills it or not.  Cuts and bruises too.

But just like how you can keep moving the break to prevent the bones from fusing, keep cutting the same place or beating the same lump... a mental patient can keep themselves from getting well.

Good news, again, is this is well understood with regards to PTSD and there's methods to subvert a reluctant patients efforts to avoid getting well.

The patient who manages to successfully evade effective treatment is a vanishingly small number even with the percentage multiplied by a huge number of candidates.  It also tends to accompany issues that were only brought to the fore by the trauma; which aren't so readily understood and treated as the triggering PTSD.

I think that the real worry from the gun control crowd about combat vets isn't that they're ticking time bombs waiting to go off at any moment.  They're land mines.  Carelessly stepping on them is what causes the explosion; they don't just "go off".