I need your help DailyPaul, my gun rights are one petition away.

My tic is similar to those in Tourette's, but fundamentally different. Whereas a Tourette's tic is entirely based on brain activity, my tic is a stimulus-response process that increases in intensity and frequency when my stress levels go up. Unlike the tics from Tourette's, while I have no control over the tic occuring, I have the ability to stop the tic from being verbalized, or at least to muffle it. However, it takes up a large amount of energy and brainpower in order to stop it, so it is a constant drain on my energy.

Before I continue describing it, I have to give you some background on how the tick formed in the first place.

For several years, I was on Lithium Carbonate, which helped me a ton to get back to being a functioning member of society, but this was only possible because it made me emotionally flat and I had to wall off all of my memories from a certain point back. After I had been stable for several years, the decision was made to switch to a different medication so I wouldn't have the nasty side effects of the Lithium (hypothyroidism, severe acne, weight gain, emotionally flat).

Unfortunately, this switch had unintended consequences. After being so flat for so long, the sudden range of emotions I got were overwhelming, and I slowly started taking down the memory wall, too. While I regained all of the good memories, I also regained all my bad memories. I have so many memories of everything I see or hear, and almost everything I see or hear reminds me of something similar, but often with several degrees of seperation. As in, I see something that reminds me of something else, which reminds me of something else, which reminds me of something else, and that is what I am laughing at. Of course, when something lead me to a bad memory, I couldn't find a way to express my feelings for it, even with my newfound range of emotion. This is what lead to the formation of the tic. The tic is a way to express the negative feelings that I get when something reminds me of a bad memory. The frustrating part about it is that the stimulus can be either external (like on the TV) or internal (in my thought processes) and still have an effect.

The reason why the tic would affect my chances at getting a gun is because of what the tic says. Before I say what it says, I have to point out that to quote this out of context could likely put me into a locked psyche ward, which is something I want to avoid at all costs. The tic varies slightly, but is usually along the lines of, "Kill/Destroy them all." This stems from a root desire to kill other people. However, I am a hardcore libertarian and a dedicated follower of the non-aggression principle. I have no desire to harm innocent people, and I don't want to go around on a killing spree. I don't want to be that guy, I want to kill that guy. My desire is to be the hero, not the villan.

It is interesting to note that I got into a few scrapes in grade school and never lost a single fight. Yet, it was almost never me who initiated the fight. Others attacked me, and I defended myself, but the key was that I only used enough force to end the fight and walk away. On one occasion in middle-school, I made the racist observation, "From what I have seen in this school, the black students are more aggressive than the white ones." Guess who tried following me home to try and beat me up? Yup, a black student. He and a lackey tackled me (I heard their footsteps), so I just said, "See? This is what I was talking about!" He immediately stopped attacking, dumbfounded, so I just got up and kept on walking. I defeated him without lifting a finger.

The point of those annecdotes is to show that I am a generally non-violent person, and when I do have to use force, I only use enough to get away. I also warn people before I resort to force. I was being pushed from behind by some jerks who were pissed that I kicked Mike Tyse's (former Vikings coach) son in the face (they had been humiliating me on a mass scale in the locker room). I told them to stop, then warned them that I would be forced to resort to physical violence if they pushed me again, then I turned around, grabbed the nearest guy and threw him to the ground, then did the same to another, then I turned around and left.

I'm a good person, but my tic makes me sound like a bad person. It is very frustrating to deal with.

I'm not trying to be combative here, I'm trying to help you to realize you're asking for permission to own and/or carry a gun. Rights do not require permission to be excercised. Quoting statutes is doing nothing more than saying 'look, here's what the people known as government are willing to allow me to do without penalizing me'.

references to cases (petitions) being brought pursuant to that statute. You say that there are "no known attempts". This is incorrect. I was able to find at least one attempt by someone who was convicted of burglary (different than the offense you mentioned). See: State of Minnesota :vs: William Arthur Anderson Mn SCt, # A05-1167, 2007.

Further, you may want to consider the case of Gordon Liddy. You may recall Mr. Liddy's name from the Nixon/Watergate era. Mr. Liddy is bared from purchasing firearms, due to his felony conviction. He has his wife purchase them. She's not affected by his conviction.

Lastly, since you were not an adult at the time of your difficulty with the Minnesota authorities, you may want to investigate the laws allowing you to have your records expunged under Chapter 609A.