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Lawmakers push for tougher gun-control measures (Schumer can't resist shootings & mental illness)
Newsday ^ | February 17, 2008 | PERVAIZ SHALLWANI

Posted on 02/22/2008 10:19:10 PM PST by neverdem

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To: neverdem

A courier arrives at the headquarters of General Schumer during a battle:
“General,our men are suffering heavy loses!”
“Tell them to dump their armor and heavy weapons!”
Later:
“General,we are losing even MORE men!”
“Well,tell them to get rid of their small arms and knives then!”
Later:
“General,we have hardly any men left!”
“Gee,we must have we done something really bad to make them hate us that much.”


21 posted on 02/22/2008 11:32:47 PM PST by Happy Rain
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To: Happy Rain
Mr. Rapist, Put that gun down

22 posted on 02/22/2008 11:40:57 PM PST by Westlander (Unleash the Neutron Bomb)
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To: wastedyears

We’ve got the same problem in Arizona with McCain, over, and over.


23 posted on 02/23/2008 1:07:51 AM PST by c-b 1 (Reporting from behind enemy lines, in occupied AZTLAN.)
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To: Westlander

Can’t use a sling shot in the People’s Republic of Zoo Jersey! Illegal weapon .


24 posted on 02/23/2008 2:46:02 AM PST by Renegade (You go tell my buddies)
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To: neverdem

While they’re at it just outlaw crime. Simplest way to solve every thing, see?


25 posted on 02/23/2008 2:46:58 AM PST by Waco
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To: umgud

Well, the new law could prohibit any type of airgun, firearm, folding stocks on slingshots, or anything that even looks like one within 2500 feet of an educational institution.
That should solve the problem, right?
How about implementing a 90 day waiting period? Dang, that would stop it.
Better yet, require gun locks on everything. That would slow things down a lot.
Man, I just don’t get it. How many years have we been doing this and how many gun restriction laws have been passed.. and I’ve yet to see one that made any difference outside of political gain or feel-good agenda. How many lives have been LOST to gun control? What would have been the death toll at VA Tech if only 5% of their students were carrying concealed?
I just don’t get it anymore.


26 posted on 02/23/2008 3:36:37 AM PST by FunkyZero
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To: endthematrix

http://www.mentalhealthcommission.gov/

Taking the guns out of the hands of citizens one generation at a time.


27 posted on 02/23/2008 3:40:00 AM PST by poobear (Pure democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what's for dinner. God save the Republic!)
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To: neverdem

Schumer is just NOT an American. PERIOD.


28 posted on 02/23/2008 5:31:26 AM PST by 2harddrive (...House a TOTAL Loss.....)
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To: neverdem
Sen. Charles Schumer (Putzhead Schmuck-N.Y.) blah, blah, blah... They also plan to push for congressional hearings on links between mental illness, school violence and Voter Registration and/or voting patterns. The prevailing view of mental health professionals is they are all Democrats.

There, fixed it.

29 posted on 02/23/2008 5:50:12 AM PST by Condor51 (Vote for McInsane or Death by Ugga-Bugga? Decisions, decisions, decisions.)
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To: neverdem

Why doesn’t Schumer outlaw mental illness?


30 posted on 02/23/2008 5:57:36 AM PST by From The Deer Stand
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To: neverdem
I read on one of my threads that the NIU shooter was taking Prozac.

Ah, that was just one of three he was taking prior to the shooting. He had been prescribed Xanax, Ambien and Prozac. According to his exgirlfriend, he abruptly stopped taking them sometime prior to the shooting.

31 posted on 02/23/2008 6:13:37 AM PST by suijuris
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To: Telepathic Intruder

Sure, there is a hidden agenda here. As a gun-grabber once told me, any one who wants to own a gun should pass a mental health test administered by a pyscologist. And, then he added, and any one who wants to own a gun is, by definition, mentally ill. Therefore, no one would pass the evaluation.


32 posted on 02/23/2008 6:28:48 AM PST by DugwayDuke (A true patriot will do anything to keep a Democrat out of the White House.)
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To: DugwayDuke

I suppose if there was some separation of responsibility in those evaluating mental fitness and those giving weapons permits, I might consider it a possible solution. That’s impossible to guarantee though, so dangerous in the long run. Wasnt the last insane shooter so obviously looney, though, that he belonged in a mental ward instead of a university? And just how really crazy was the last one? If only it was as easy to commit them as it was Brittney Spears.


33 posted on 02/23/2008 7:09:54 AM PST by Telepathic Intruder
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To: neverdem
“Gun-Free Zones Kill Children”

Would love to see that on a bumper sticker.

34 posted on 02/23/2008 7:23:37 AM PST by NewJerseyJoe (Rat mantra: "Facts are meaningless! You can use facts to prove anything that's even remotely true!")
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To: suijuris
He had been prescribed Xanax, Ambien and Prozac. According to his exgirlfriend, he abruptly stopped taking them sometime prior to the shooting.

Can you find that link? This looks real ugly. Schumer might have a field day with prescription drug makers.

35 posted on 02/23/2008 8:50:49 AM PST by neverdem (I have to hope for a brokered GOP Convention. It can't get any worse.)
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36 posted on 02/23/2008 9:15:03 AM PST by neverdem (I have to hope for a brokered GOP Convention. It can't get any worse.)
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To: DugwayDuke
"As a gun-grabber once told me, any one who wants to own a gun should pass a mental health test administered by a pyscologist."

The perp's GF was a psych grad student. She said he was normal, even after he came home with this tat in July '07 + more:


37 posted on 02/23/2008 9:38:28 AM PST by spunkets ("Freedom is about authority", Rudy Giuliani, gun grabber)
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To: neverdem
"Maybe both of these killers were experiencing SSRI discontinuation syndrome?"

That's unlikely. Cho was a parnoid schizophrenic. The NIU perp got those tats in July '07 and put on a big smile about them. He had already been known to have cut himself and was facinated by the same in prisoners. Note the tattoo artist's description of the guy contrasted sharply from the description by his GF and NI grad advisor/prof. The GF rarely made I contact during her interviews and the prof refused to appear on camera. All they showed of him was an ear and neck hair. This had been developing for some time and none of the "experts" noticed.

38 posted on 02/23/2008 9:48:35 AM PST by spunkets ("Freedom is about authority", Rudy Giuliani, gun grabber)
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To: neverdem
links between mental illness and school violence
how about hearings on links between mental illness and Democrats in office? :') Thanks neverdem.
39 posted on 02/23/2008 10:02:50 AM PST by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/___________________Profile updated Tuesday, February 19, 2008)
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To: neverdem

I think it was Paxil, but close enough.


40 posted on 02/23/2008 10:25:16 AM PST by FreedomPoster (Guns themselves are fairly robust; their chief enemies are rust and politicians) (NRA)
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