How do you know that his life hasn’t been threatened and he doesn’t have much of a means to defend himself? 911 averages a 13min response time and you don’t know his living situation. A vet would have prior training and would know how to use a gun safely and could probably judge pretty well if a gun is a good idea or not. My wife’s life was threatened and I said the word, “need” when I told her I was getting her one and was starting the CCW process. So it’s a bad idea to get her one too? Your vetting process is going through his Reddit posts (of all things) and seeing that he said he wanted to go somewhere and his choice of verbiage was “need”. Are you a veteran yourself? A psychiatrist? How much experience and exposure to either of those fields do you have? If he’s not a felon, doesn’t have a questionable psyche history, then I say it’s his right to have one. A lot of them when he can afford more, actually. Not carrying if I’m an asshole about the situation.