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Nearly 1 in 10 Americans have severe anger issues and access to guns
Washington Post ^ | 7/08/17 | Christopher Ingraham

Posted on 07/08/2017 6:57:38 PM PDT by Libloather

Roughly 22 million Americans -- 8.9 percent of the adult population-- have impulsive anger issues and easy access to guns. 3.7 million of these angry gun owners routinely carry their guns in public. And very few of them are subject to current mental health-based gun ownership restrictions.

Those are the key findings of a new study by researchers from Harvard, Columbia and Duke University. "Anger," in this study, doesn't simply mean garden-variety aggravation. It means explosive, uncontrollable rage, as measured by responses to the National Comorbidity Survey Replication in the early 2000s. It is "impulsive, out of control, destructive, harmful," lead author Jeffrey Swanson of Duke University said in an interview. "You and I might shout. These individuals break and smash things and get into physical fights, punch someone in the nose."

Angry people with guns are typically young or middle-aged men, according to Swanson's research. They're likely to be married, and to live in suburban areas. In a recent op-ed, Swanson and a co-author point to Craig Stephen Hicks, a North Carolina man who "had frightened neighbors with his rages and had a cache of fourteen firearms" and who shot three Muslim students earlier this year, as a quintessential example of an enraged gun owner.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Extended News; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: america; anger; banglist; christopher; ebt; gungrabbers; guns; mediabias; wpgoebbelspropagada
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To: Libloather

Define “severe anger issues”.


61 posted on 07/08/2017 8:04:39 PM PDT by meyer (The Constitution says what it says, and it doesn't say what it doesn't say.)
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To: BenLurkin
The thing about black Americans that a handful of people sometimes forget, is that they are Americans..

The primary difference I see is that Americans identify as Americans first. For example, I am an American, a conservative, Christian, a husband, stepfather, and grandfather. I am an engineer and I happen to be white. I judge people by their character, amen i expect them to behave responsibly and act honorably.

What Inhave seen, and experienced is an overwhelming percentage of Blacks who identify as Blacks, hate America and hate whites. These people are found in BLM and throughout every ghetto. They have no concept of team or belonging to anyone or anything. It's a "Me First", 3rd world mentality. We saw this with Obama. I find this "character" to be a degenerate, extremely common and appalling. If I am "racist" for noting that 12.5% of the population accounts for 36.9% of our. welfare budget and 80% of our country's violent crime. So be it.

62 posted on 07/08/2017 8:05:44 PM PDT by Hodar (A man can fail many times, but he isn't a failure until he begins to blame somebody else.- Burroughs)
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To: Libloather

And yet, SOMEHOW the bloodbath never seems to materialize.


63 posted on 07/08/2017 8:19:15 PM PDT by Still Thinking (Freedom is NOT a loophole!)
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To: Libloather

Nine out of 10 Democrats have access to a gun. That is much scarier.


64 posted on 07/08/2017 8:21:55 PM PDT by AlaskaErik (I served and protected my country for 31 years. Progressives spent that time trying to destroy it.)
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To: Libloather

Hide in your bedroom and cry, Christopher Ingraham. I don’t care!


65 posted on 07/08/2017 8:33:49 PM PDT by TigersEye (Investigate the Awan brothers and Wasserman Schultz)
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To: Libloather
There they go again...


66 posted on 07/08/2017 8:35:42 PM PDT by Boomer ("Based on the impotent shrieking of the Never Trump bedwetters"....)
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To: tumblindice

lol


67 posted on 07/08/2017 8:39:49 PM PDT by facedown (Armed in the Heartland)
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To: Vermont Lt

Exactly. The bodies would be stacked up like firewood if this was true.

And boy wouldn’t they love to be able to slap some psychological label on those they judged too angry to be armed?!


68 posted on 07/08/2017 8:41:52 PM PDT by Let's Roll ("You can avoid reality, but you cannot avoid the consequences of avoiding reality" -- Ayn Rand)
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To: Libloather

“Nearly 1 in 10 Americans have severe anger issues and access to guns.”

Just how many journalist have “severe anger issues and access to” a laptop, typewriter or pen?

“The pen is mightier than the sword” were first written by novelist and playwright Edward Bulwer-Lytton in 1839


69 posted on 07/08/2017 8:43:42 PM PDT by BwanaNdege ("The church ... is not the master or the servant of the state, but the conscience" - Luther)
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To: rktman
🔫. 93 million a day. Just ask tmac.

What's a few orders of magnitude when your cause is just?

70 posted on 07/08/2017 8:49:29 PM PDT by facedown (Armed in the Heartland)
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To: Libloather

So, using Liberal Logic, if 100,000,000 Americans own Guns and 10% of them are Angry (as in Right Wingers), there should be at least 10,000,000 Dead Liberals lying in the Streets of America.

I wonder, do those 10,000,000 Angry (Right Wingers) drive Cars and own Knives and Baseball Bats?


71 posted on 07/08/2017 8:53:12 PM PDT by Kickass Conservative ( THEY LIVE, and we're the only ones wearing the Sunglasses.)
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To: Libloather

Craig Hicks...!?
3 Mussies?
I missed that one.

I’m watching Scarface...

Tony Montana had issues!


72 posted on 07/08/2017 8:55:21 PM PDT by Big Red Badger (UNSCANABLE in an IDIOCRACY!)
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To: The Toll

Loaded His 40 with 9....

Find a New RANGE!


73 posted on 07/08/2017 9:29:54 PM PDT by Big Red Badger (UNSCANABLE in an IDIOCRACY!)
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To: PROCON

I’m pretty sure more than 1 in 10 Americans are angry democrats.


74 posted on 07/08/2017 9:31:57 PM PDT by smokingfrog ( sleep with one eye open (<o> ---)
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To: smokingfrog

Yup, liberal’s Trump Derangement Syndrome is seriously getting out of hand. They are dangerous, we must stay vigilant but mocking them is a lot of fun too.


75 posted on 07/08/2017 9:38:53 PM PDT by PROCON (President Reagan, your worthy successor has arrived to save our beloved America)
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To: Libloather

300 million guns and 1 trillion rounds, if there was a problem you would know it.

Tale the top 25 ghettos out of the gun numbers and we are Switzerland.


76 posted on 07/08/2017 10:07:56 PM PDT by Titus-Maximus (It doesn't matter who votes for whom, it only matters who counts the votes - Joe Stalin)
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To: Libloather

eff the wapo, treasonous bastards.


77 posted on 07/08/2017 10:21:19 PM PDT by going hot (Happiness is a Momma Deuce)
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To: Libloather

... and more than 4 in 10 have psychotic rage and severely restricted access to guns in blue cities and states.

I’m oddly OK with this, they can keep themselves from having guns all they want, just leave us red staters alone.


78 posted on 07/08/2017 10:25:28 PM PDT by RegulatorCountry
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To: Libloather

And 90 per cent of the “1 in 10” are Democrats!


79 posted on 07/08/2017 10:39:55 PM PDT by mdmathis6
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To: Libloather

At one time Duke University used to be known as a respectable, research honest school.

Now it’s become “Puke University” and nobody with a brain trusts studies like these.


80 posted on 07/08/2017 10:47:22 PM PDT by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper
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