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[mahatmakanejeeves]

1. Cite, please. Thanks. NT

[Roy Rolling]

2. Please

We all assume he’s a nutjob but provenance is important. 😵?💫

[COL Mustard]

3. Per Snopes, Unproven

He apparently did receive a deferment, but it's not stated why.

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/nra-leader-wayne-lapierre-receive-draft-deferment-nervous-disorder/

[multigraincracker]

6. He could release his records.

[mahatmakanejeeves]

9. This is one of the "we're just asking" articles. It's no confirmation at all.

"Did aliens build the pyramids?" We're just asking.

[mahatmakanejeeves]

8. The character string "mental" shows up once in that article.

It's in the phrase "developmentally disabled students."

"Nervous" shows up twice, in the word "nervously."

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While Vietnam War protests raged on college campuses, Wayne landed an internship with a New York state legislator. He managed to avoid the military draft while in college through a student deferment. He also later received a medical deferment—the same categorization as Donald Trump’s—although the exact reason for this is unknown.

Wayne is an awkward egghead type, and it’s not hard to imagine that with a few different twists of fate he would have ended up as a college professor teaching political science, rather than rising to become one of the nation’s most controversial gun rights advocates. He had a soft spot for children and was employed as a substitute special education teacher in Troy, New York, with poor and developmentally disabled students. In 1973 he started a Ph.D. at Boston University but dropped out to help a Democrat run for the Virginia state legislature; a few years later he received an M.A. in political science from Boston College.

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[multigraincracker]

4. Kind of like Ted Nugent.

They are all nuts.

[2naSalit]

10. He IS a mental illness.