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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.”

(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...


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

Put the CRIMINALS in PRISON and quit coddling them!

Have you SEEN THE RAP SHEETS of recent shooters??????


81 posted on 12/27/2014 9:58:35 AM PST by G Larry (Amnesty imposes SLAVE WAGES on LEGAL immigrants & minorities)
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To: MeshugeMikey
LOVE the last paragraph .. especially the part I highlighted ;

"Educating others about firearms is hard work. It’s not glamorous, and it generally needs to be done one person at a time. But it’s a very necessary and important task.

The average American supports freedom of speech and freedom of religion, whether or not he chooses to exercise them.

He supports fair trials, whether or not he’s ever been in a courtroom.

He likewise needs to understand that self–defense is an essential right, whether or not he chooses to own or carry a gun."


(I broke up the last three clauses because I like bullet-point reading ... easier to memorize .. imo)

82 posted on 12/27/2014 9:58:36 AM PST by knarf
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To: oldbrowser; All
Thank You, for such interesting illumination w/ those facts!

"An armed society is a polite society. Manners are good
when one may have to back up his acts with his life."
..Robert A. Heinlein
83 posted on 12/27/2014 9:59:00 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
super !

Except I'd change the word to "up-loading"

my 2 cents' worth

84 posted on 12/27/2014 10:00:47 AM PST by knarf
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To: knarf
if i made it, i would... i stole it like most everything else 8^)
85 posted on 12/27/2014 10:03:57 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: Norm Lenhart

Who would tryst a liberal with a gun? Sounds like a match made on the internet.


86 posted on 12/27/2014 10:09:24 AM PST by arthurus
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To: rktman
Kimberly...you keep on broadcasting your hatred of firearms and you become a prime target for robbery....rape...maybe even murder.
87 posted on 12/27/2014 10:10:34 AM PST by Gay State Conservative (Jimmy Carter;No Longer The Worst President In My Lifetime)
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To: arthurus

Why do people pay big bux to Dominatrixes to whip them bloody?

Because they like it.


88 posted on 12/27/2014 10:10:59 AM PST by Norm Lenhart
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To: Norm Lenhart

Dominatrices.


89 posted on 12/27/2014 10:12:39 AM PST by arthurus
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To: arthurus

I take it you know the proper spelling from personal experience? Had it whipped into ya huh? ;)


90 posted on 12/27/2014 10:13:56 AM PST by Norm Lenhart
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To: rktman
"Certainly one of the chief guarantees of freedom under any government, no matter how popular and respected, is the right of citizens to keep and bear arms...the right of citizens to bear arms is just one more guarantee against arbitrary government, one more safeguard against tyranny which now appears remote in America, but which historically has proved to be always possible"

Hubert H Humphrey (D-MN)

91 posted on 12/27/2014 10:18:25 AM PST by Gay State Conservative (Jimmy Carter;No Longer The Worst President In My Lifetime)
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To: rktman

Er, the drugs are labelled specifically warning that they cause suicidal and homicidal ideation. The connection between these drugs and violence is well established. However there is a deeper thing going on here. With the revelation that Kinsey’s work was all fraud and the growing understanding that mental health professionals increase violence rather than abate it, the entire structure of the Therapeutic State is threatened. What happens when it’s finally widely understood that it’s all been a money making scam that raked billions from the public coffers and destroyed millions of lives?


92 posted on 12/27/2014 10:19:59 AM PST by Seruzawa (All those memories will be lost, like tears in rain.)
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To: rktman

thought you would appreciate this map of who wants or doesn’t want gun control...

http://www.isidewith.com/map/5i5/support-for-gun-control


93 posted on 12/27/2014 10:21:04 AM PST by huldah1776
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To: rktman

A good healthy portion of psychiatrists became psychiatrists because they themselves have mental issues.


94 posted on 12/27/2014 10:24:50 AM PST by Darksheare (Those who support liberal "Republicans" summarily support every action by same.)
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To: rktman

mass murders, the killing of innocents, gang rapes, beating people to bloody pulps all are indicative of dark and evil hearts - products of Satan’s influence on mankind.


95 posted on 12/27/2014 10:26:17 AM PST by elpadre (AfganistaMr Obama said the goal was to "disrupt, dismantle and defeat al-hereQaeda" and its allies.)
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To: rktman

The guns don’t seem to have the power to force a sane person to go shot up a school.


96 posted on 12/27/2014 10:27:13 AM PST by Wiser now (Socialism does not eliminate poverty, it guarantees it.)
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To: Norm Lenhart
They obviously cannot be trysted with them.

In any tryst with a liberal, I would prefer that she be unarmed!

97 posted on 12/27/2014 10:27:19 AM PST by JimRed (Excise the cancer before it kills us; feed & water the Tree of Liberty! TERM LIMITS NOW & FOREVER!)
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To: Seruzawa

“What happens when it’s finally widely understood that...”

Nothing. People will rationalist it all, make the proper excuse and still partake. Just like thee way they vote and send their kids into liberal indoctrination camps. Just like they send the tithe monthly to dish/cable. They know all that is a bad idea and wrong.

Does not stop them. They do not wish to be seen as the odd man out in their social circles.


98 posted on 12/27/2014 10:28:36 AM PST by Norm Lenhart
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To: JimRed

No guts, no glory!


99 posted on 12/27/2014 10:29:07 AM PST by Norm Lenhart
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To: SkyPilot



100 posted on 12/27/2014 10:29:28 AM PST by MeshugeMikey ("Never, Never, Never, Give Up," Winston Churchill ><>)
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