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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Define “severe anger issues”.
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.
And yet, SOMEHOW the bloodbath never seems to materialize.
Nine out of 10 Democrats have access to a gun. That is much scarier.
Hide in your bedroom and cry, Christopher Ingraham. I don’t care!
lol
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?!
“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
What's a few orders of magnitude when your cause is just?
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?
Craig Hicks...!?
3 Mussies?
I missed that one.
I’m watching Scarface...
Tony Montana had issues!
Loaded His 40 with 9....
Find a New RANGE!
I’m pretty sure more than 1 in 10 Americans are angry democrats.
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.
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.
eff the wapo, treasonous bastards.
... 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.
And 90 per cent of the “1 in 10” are Democrats!
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.
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