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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: skimbell
"problem...food"

No, the problem is eating utensils and cook ware. They should be banned so people don't overeat. Plus, cardboard, paper, and other things that food can be packaged in. Together, by banning all these things, we'll stop the scourge of people eating too much.

41 posted on 12/27/2014 9:00:45 AM PST by driftless2 (For long term happiness, learn how to play the accordion.)
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To: SkyPilot

5 out of 6...I guess I am Mentally Ill.


42 posted on 12/27/2014 9:03:34 AM PST by left that other site (You shall know the Truth, and The Truth Shall Set You Free.)
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To: a fool in paradise

Who supervises the guardian to make sure they’re doing their legally-mandated job of supervision? The gov’t? We’ve got that now in multiple layers, and it’s not working.


43 posted on 12/27/2014 9:05:54 AM PST by Carriage Hill ( Some days you're the windshield, and some days you're the bug.)
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To: rktman

Another deranged idiot weighs in.


44 posted on 12/27/2014 9:07:49 AM PST by mylife
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To: rktman
Smith & Wesson LIVE Gun-Cam

Gun Cam is Active
45 posted on 12/27/2014 9:08:13 AM PST by Chode (Stand UP and Be Counted, or line up and be numbered - *DTOM* -w- NO Pity for the LAZY - 86-44)
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To: rktman
Kimberly Yonkers

Who, as a liberal, is bonkers.

46 posted on 12/27/2014 9:08:52 AM PST by Disambiguator
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To: MeshugeMikey
thats the very reason they dont want you to have weapons....they assume that everyone is as unstable..as they are

This is a very astute observation. After arguing with several hoplophobes about a decade ago, I realized the same thing.

When challenged, the typical anti-gun zealot will claim that "most" people shouldn't have guns, because they might suddenly snap and go on a rampage, killing someone in the "heat of passion", or something like that.

I pressed this issue, asking why they believed that. It's actually very rare for someone to do so: nearly every murder of any kind (with a gun or otherwise) is committed by someone with a long history of criminal behavior.

After a lot of prevarication, every one of them eventually admitted they didn't trust themselves with a gun, because they were afraid what they might do with it. And of course, they projected that fear onto everyone else.

When I suggested that they should seek the services of a mental health professional, they quickly ended the discussion.

It was a revelation to me: people with this level of self-loathing cannot be convinced by any kind of logic. Their attitude is completely driven by emotion, and their projection of this emotion onto an inanimate object is a coping mechanism. They truly need professional help, but as the old joke goes:

Q: How many psychiatrists does it take to change a lightbulb?
A: Only one, but first the lightbulb must want to change.

47 posted on 12/27/2014 9:08:59 AM PST by justlurking (tagline removed, as demanded by Admin Moderator)
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To: rktman; All
Brainless Twits...W/o human interactions (pulling trigger/press
button/programmed); The Firearm, Is an inanimate tool.

48 posted on 12/27/2014 9:11:05 AM PST by skinkinthegrass ("Bathhouse" E'Bola/0'Boehmer/0'McConnell; all STINK and their best friends are flies. d8^)
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To: Chode

Geez. I barely see any activity at all. Weird huh? How about you strap a gopro to it and see what it does and where it goes while you’re away from the house. Trip to the fridge, bathroom, front window etc, etc, etc.


49 posted on 12/27/2014 9:12:35 AM PST by rktman (Served in the Navy to protect the rights of those that want to take some of mine away. Odd, eh?)
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To: MeshugeMikey

>> A psychiatrist Examines The Anti-Gun Mentality

Thx. Useful.


50 posted on 12/27/2014 9:13:16 AM PST by Nervous Tick (There is no "allah" but satan, and mohammed is his demon.)
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To: skinkinthegrass

liblogic counter argument: “Nuh uh.”


51 posted on 12/27/2014 9:13:27 AM PST by rktman (Served in the Navy to protect the rights of those that want to take some of mine away. Odd, eh?)
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To: rktman

99% of psychiatrists are crazy and give the other 1% a bad name.


52 posted on 12/27/2014 9:13:45 AM PST by 43north (BHO: 50% black, 50% white, 100% RED.)
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To: rktman
This obsession with mental health as the root cause of gun violence the emotionalistic authoritarian response of gun control as the solution to the problem of gun violence is not only silly; it’s dangerous and counter-productive. In the long run it leads to more authoritarianism and less freedom because

It is a fact that every single nation that has required the registration of firearms has soon confiscated those firearms, leaving their citizens defenseless.

53 posted on 12/27/2014 9:14:24 AM PST by mjp ((pro-{God, reality, reason, egoism, individualism, natural rights, limited government, capitalism}))
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To: rktman

Hey Kimmy, more people die in car accidents daily than in shootings.
Should we get rid of cars?

Kimmy probably thinks so.
We can all ride the Gov bus.


54 posted on 12/27/2014 9:17:30 AM PST by mylife
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To: rktman

Need further proof that MSM IQ is way to the left of the Bellcurve?

QED


55 posted on 12/27/2014 9:17:54 AM PST by Da Coyote
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To: rktman

Suicide by gun is the number one cause of people killed by guns....

By definition killing yourself by suicide is a mental disorder...


56 posted on 12/27/2014 9:18:06 AM PST by Popman
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To: mylife

You won’t need to once they move everybody into population centers and everything you need will be within a couple of blocks of your 500 sq/ft hovel. :>}


57 posted on 12/27/2014 9:19:06 AM PST by rktman (Served in the Navy to protect the rights of those that want to take some of mine away. Odd, eh?)
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To: rktman

Gun ownership goes with high morals. Guns in the hands of moral, responsible people are not a problem. I would actually say that gun ownership is a necessity among moral people.

Gun ownership has only become a problem as people without high morals and responsibility get guns....making the people the problem, not the gun.

Basically, it’s the straying from Judeo Christian values which has become the problem in society, and it is showing up everywhere.


58 posted on 12/27/2014 9:19:36 AM PST by JudyinCanada
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To: umgud

A great experiment would be to give a liberal a gun and see if they went out and committed a crime with it.


I’ve done that. They drop it like it’s a hot horse shoe.


59 posted on 12/27/2014 9:19:45 AM PST by Loud Mime (We wanted an Einstein But we got a Frankenstein (h/t Alice Cooper))
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To: rktman

The Wapo has been anti-gun for as long as I can remember, maybe back as far as 1962.
Who can forget their attacks against the NRA for the last 50 years, and especially the vicious Herblock cartoons.


60 posted on 12/27/2014 9:21:09 AM PST by Ruy Dias de Bivar
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