I Have Depression: Take Away My Right to a Gun

Wendy Button once considered getting a gun after a scare with an intruder. But "then I remembered who I am," she writes in the New York Times. Button suffers from depression, and when it comes on, sometimes her "fight against the urge to die is so tough the only way I get through it is second by second." That's why she wants the government to take away her Second Amendment rights and make it impossible for her to own a gun.

President Obama and Joe Biden issued worthwhile proposals, "but I believe they should be bolder and stop walking on eggshells about what to do with people like me and those not even close to being like me but still labeled with the crazy term 'mentally ill,'" writes Button. Keep the guns out of reach. "Our leaders should do more to keep us safe from ourselves." Read the full column here. (More depression stories.)