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Stop blaming mental health for gun violence. The problem is guns
washingtonpost.com ^ | 12/26/2014 | Kimberly Yonkers

Posted on 12/27/2014 8:26:03 AM PST by rktman

After the mass shooting at the University of California at Santa Barbara, Mel Robbins, writing for CNN, argued that blame lay not with the National Rifle Association, but with “the shooter and the mental health services he did or didn’t get.”

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Philosophy
KEYWORDS: 2a; academicbias; agitprop; banglist; guncontrol; gungrabber; headshrink; kimberlyyonkers; lackademia; liberalism; mentaldisorder; naacp; pseudoscience; waronscience; washingtoncompost; washingtonpost
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To: rktman

What will Kimberly do when she wakes up one day and realizes what just one car can do.


21 posted on 12/27/2014 8:44:45 AM PST by Liberty Valance (Keep a simple manner for a happy life :o)
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To: rktman
Disarm the law abiding people SO THAT..
they have no defense against those that will NOT abide by the law..


22 posted on 12/27/2014 8:45:59 AM PST by hosepipe (" This propaganda has been edited (specifically) to include some fully orbed hyperbole.. ")
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To: rktman

Yonkers is bonkers.


23 posted on 12/27/2014 8:46:55 AM PST by smokingfrog ( sleep with one eye open (<o> ---)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

It’s nearly axiomatic now, that if some “expert” makes an incredibly stupid political statement on an issue that they have Ivy League credentials.


24 posted on 12/27/2014 8:47:36 AM PST by Amagi (Lenin: "Socialized Medicine is the Keystone to the Arch of the Socialist State.")
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To: rktman

So I guess when McVeigh mass murdered hundreds in Oklahoma the problem was fertilizer.


25 posted on 12/27/2014 8:48:22 AM PST by Bubba_Leroy (The Obamanation Continues)
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To: rktman

Kimmie, Kimmie, Kimmie. ...The gun violence that can’t be
attributed to mental health issues can certainly be laid at the feet of a culture that mocks old time moral values as
those taught in the Christian religion. You need to have
this talk with your liberal friends. It still ain’t the
Guns, hun.


26 posted on 12/27/2014 8:48:32 AM PST by Sivad (NorCal red turf ;-))
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To: Amagi
Good things come out of the Ivy League, but they're outweighed by the evil more and more.
27 posted on 12/27/2014 8:48:57 AM PST by 2ndDivisionVet (The question isn't who is going to let me; it's who is going to stop me.)
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To: rktman

In 1997, estimates were approximately 44 million gun owners in the United States. These owners possessed approximately 192 million firearms, of which an estimated 65 million were handguns. With Obama being the best thing to happen to (increasing) gun sales since he took office, there are millions more guns out there in the public since he took office.

IF GUNS WERE THE PROBLEM, there should be millions and millions of people dead in this country due to the guns out there in the public. This is obviously not the case .... but then again, “logic” means nothing to Leftists.


28 posted on 12/27/2014 8:50:33 AM PST by Qiviut ( One of the most delightful things about a garden is the anticipation it provides. ~W.E. Johns)
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To: rktman

Oh yeah, I have to watch my guns all the time. I’m fearful that some day they are going to just turn on me on their own. They never did like me....

Just like my shovel, chain saw and drill press.


29 posted on 12/27/2014 8:51:53 AM PST by henkster (Do I really need a sarcasm tag?)
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To: rktman

Washington Post article by an anti-gunner — not worth my time to read.


30 posted on 12/27/2014 8:53:00 AM PST by falcon99
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To: rktman

Fork control is needed to stop obesity.


31 posted on 12/27/2014 8:54:38 AM PST by TheThirdRuffian (RINOS like Romney, McCain, Christie are sure losers. No more!)
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To: DaveA37
Most psycriatists are crazy anyway.

I went to a psychiatrist once. He just looked at me and didn't talk. I asked him why he wasn't talking and he said he was waiting for me to talk. I said I didn't want to talk. So that was it. I left. What a freak.

32 posted on 12/27/2014 8:54:55 AM PST by Cry if I Wanna
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To: rktman

From the article:

“But our mental health system is not substantially worse. Most wealthy countries spend between 6 and 8 percent of their gross domestic product on mental health care; the U.S. spends 7 percent GDP. ... A patient with moderate or severe psychiatric illness is just as likely to be seen for care in the United States as in Western Europe, “

The problem is all the crazy things that we dismiss as “normal”. Yes, a patient with “moderate to severe” problems are seen, but those with just a little bit of crazy are never questioned. I saw a woman last week with 4 piercings on her face and “Don’t be judgin’ me” tattooed across the tops of her breasts. She had other tattoos on her arms, but I was reading the breast tattoo and didn’t notice them too much. There’s a lot of pent-up crazy in a person who does that, but we have to accept it as normal.


33 posted on 12/27/2014 8:55:18 AM PST by Bryanw92 (Sic semper tyrannis)
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To: rktman

If that were true, prisons nation-wide should be full of guns.


34 posted on 12/27/2014 8:56:19 AM PST by broken_arrow1 (I regret that I have but one life to give for my country - Nathan Hale "Patriot")
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To: rktman

I wonder if she’s be ready to stand trial for manslaughter if someone stole her car and ran over a pedestrian or caused a fatal accident.


35 posted on 12/27/2014 8:56:25 AM PST by tacticalogic
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To: MeshugeMikey

And if we collectively, including the NRA etc. had a lick of sense, we would be pushing the fact that there is a high 90’th percentile correlation between gun problems and liberal beliefs.

There is almost NO incidence of gun problems with right wing/conservative (in the American sense) beliefs. We simply do not believe and act as liberals and liberal supporting people do...which is to say, entitled to violence. It is therefor logical to look closely at liberals and why they are dominant in gun crime statistics.

And everyone needs to know it.


36 posted on 12/27/2014 8:56:58 AM PST by Norm Lenhart
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To: rktman; Norm Lenhart; GOPsterinMA; 2ndDivisionVet; Berlin_Freeper; Travis McGee
Look at all these Peaceful Communists

Combat Group of the Working Class


37 posted on 12/27/2014 8:57:29 AM PST by KC_Lion (Build the America you want to live in at your address, and keep looking up.- Sarah Palin)
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To: KC_Lion

Large formation of Asian troops = massive garlic breath.


38 posted on 12/27/2014 8:58:59 AM PST by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: Norm Lenhart

indeed and the very reason that the MOUTHY “liberals” are gun phobic

Raging Against Self Defense:
A psychiatrist Examines The Anti-Gun Mentality

http://jpfo.org/filegen-n-z/ragingagainstselfdefense.htm


39 posted on 12/27/2014 8:59:58 AM PST by MeshugeMikey ("Never, Never, Never, Give Up," Winston Churchill ><>)
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To: rktman
The problem is guns

Actually guns are the answer.

40 posted on 12/27/2014 9:00:00 AM PST by Altura Ct.
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