Thinking about Wayne LaPierre's Presser this morning,

[MineralMan]

I started wondering how many NRA members and other vehement RKBA advocates might be diagnosed with Paranoid Personality Disorder if they met with a psychiatrist? Here's a fairly good description of the disorder:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paranoid_personality_disorder

The World Health Organization's ICD-10 lists paranoid personality disorder as (F60.0) Paranoid personality disorder.[5]
It is characterized by at least three of the following:

excessive sensitivity to setbacks and rebuffs;

tendency to bear grudges persistently, i.e. refusal to forgive insults and injuries or slights;

suspiciousness and a pervasive tendency to distort experience by misconstruing the neutral or friendly actions of others as hostile or contemptuous;

a combative and tenacious sense of personal rights out of keeping with the actual situation;

recurrent suspicions, without justification, regarding sexual fidelity of spouse or sexual partner;

tendency to experience excessive self-importance, manifest in a persistent self-referential attitude;

preoccupation with unsubstantiated "conspiratorial" explanations of events both immediate to the patient and in the world at large.

If so, would they be listed in the database of mentally ill people LaPierre was advocating for. It's an interesting question.

[Little Star]

1. They certainly think & act like it.

[The Magistrate]

2. Applied For Concealed Carry Permit, Sir, Ought To Be added To The Diagnostic Criteria....

[yellerpup]

3. Gosh, wikipedia just described my gun-totin'

salty little mamma, may she rest in peace. She'd slip her shoulder holster on over her little snap-up duster first thing in the morning and wear it all day. She liked drama and would make her rounds around her double wide, peering fearfully out her own windows and scaring herself to death because she just knew somebody was out there, she just couldn't see them. She would not have shown up in the database.