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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Dementia causes changes in personality including confusion, anxiety, and anger.

Just as we take car keys away from seniors who should no longer be driving, we need to take guns away from seniors too.[/quote]

[b]Could be dementia, but the availability of a gun nearby is a key factor too.[/b]

Also, a similar incident happened in upstate NY (several posters have provided link to story) and that shooter was mid-60s, so is that dementia too?  That guy shot at a car coming up his driveway around 10pm at night. The people in the car had gone to the wrong house. A young woman was killed.  It's the guns + paranoia/fear fueled by Fox etc.[/quote]

+1 
I hope this is a wake up call to people with elderly relatives to check on them and make sure they don't have any guns around the house. 
If a person that age feels they will be in danger without one, then their relatives should help them find safer accommodations. [/quote]

My husband and his sister found loaded guns under my husband's grandfather's bed and under the guest bed where his adult granddaughter and young great grandchildren slept. He was in his 80s, a heavy drinker and paranoid and senile. The relatives searched the rest of the house and took all of the guns.

I don't know what the answer is, but elderly people owning guns is a serious problem. And probably more common than we realize. [/quote]

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