Patrick Crusius' father admits to nearly 40 years of drug addiction (TR)

UK Daily Mail ^ | 08/04/2019 | Ryan Parry and Josh Boswell

[madison10]

ROFL Thanks.

[af_vet_1981]

That’s AA’s mistake

AA is not a church or faith community; it is a therapeutic community to fight alcoholism. If one knows enough AA participants one would know that some of them are Christians and believe in the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. Obviously if all alcoholics were healed of their sins and diseases via traditional churches and faith communities there would be no need for Christians to use AA in an ongoing struggle to live sober.

Here’s the first three steps of AA (Alcoholics Anonymous):

We admitted we were powerless over our addiction - that our lives had become unmanageable.

We came to believe that a Power greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity.

We made a decision to turn our will and lives over to the care of God as we understood Him.

...

Some people, especially more hardcore atheists or agnostics, really struggle with this idea. That’s okay. AA isn’t the only thing out there.

[100American]

Adriana Quezada, 39, said she was in the women’s clothing section of Walmart with her two children when she heard gunfire.

“But I thought they were hits, like roof construction,” she said of the shots.

Her 19-year-old daughter and 16-year-old son threw themselves to the ground, then ran out of the store through an emergency exit. They were not hurt, Quezada said.

She said she saw FOUR men, dressed in black, moving together firing guns indiscriminately. Police later said they believed the suspect, who was armed with a rifle, was the only shooter.

https://apnews.com/13545dd216ae4e7aa46c524b7ee4cbec

[zeestephen]

Re: The root cause of this and most other such incidents comes down to bad parenting.

I disagree.

There are less than two dozen public area mass shootings per year in the USA.

The shooters are a fraction of a fraction of a fraction of one percent of our population.

If bad parenting was the cause, we would have two dozen public area mass shootings EVERY day.

[zeestephen]

“Mass Shooting” has a very specific definition in the FBI Crime Statistics.

That definition explicitly excludes gang related shootings and domestic violence related shootings.

The minimum number of dead has been reduced at least once, and it is now set at three.

“Mass Shootings” typically take place in a public area, and, more often than not, the shooter does not personally know his victims.

[A_perfect_lady]

Well, it is definitely true that no father is better than a really bad father. I’m proof of that too. I hope your youngest will be okay. My friend’s brother had stage 3 colorectal cancer and they managed to pull him through. 10 years so far.

[caww]

His clinic will go belly up after this.

[mass55th]

Thanks for sharing, and for your good wishes for my son. His doctor told him his prognosis is very good. He lives outside of Indianapolis. I live in NY State, and was there for his surgery in April, and stayed for another three weeks. Then he threw me out :-) He and his girlfriend got married while I was there, so knowing she is there with him sets my heart at rest. Thanks again.

[sparklite2]

Yup. That’s what I said.