Posted on 04/08/2022 8:09:31 AM PDT by rellimpank
The mentally ill are not even likely to commit a violent crime, particularly with a weapon.
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This is absurd.
There is a hard, fast rule in hypnosis. A hypnotist can’t cause a subject to commit a violent act which the subject would not commit while not under hypnosis. There are any number of cases where hypnotists proved this rule to be false. They do it by planting the suggestion that the target of the suggested attack is a threat to the subject. The suggestion overcomes the subject’s moral compunctions against committing an immoral act by injecting the perception that the act is actually self defense.
And so it is with paranoid schizophrenics. Schizophrenics are not the “funny” harmless people depicted by modern media. They twist every human interaction into being a threat against them personally. In their minds everyone is out to get them. If they respond, then they think, it’s only self defense.
There are any number of internet sites which apologize for the propensity of schizophrenics to be more violent. Statistics say that crazy people are at least 3 times as likely to commit crimes, especially violent crimes. The only thing protecting society from more massive harm is the inherent disability caused by schizophrenia. Place firearms in easy reach of diagnosed or adjudicated schizophrenics is an invitation to injury and death.
Crimes committed using a firearm should have 10 years added to the criminals sentence. That will just about destroy most gangs and others who own illegal guns used for crimes.
“Dangerous hands”
Those who are minding their own business, but able to fight
back.
California is starting to draw flies.
No, you are absurd for wanting to take away someone's God given rights out of fear of a crime that they have not committed. Grow a set and stop being afraid.
Taking way the rights of any citizen without them committing a crime opens the door to the thought process that government merely needs to identify "traits" to remove a citizen's rights. Perhaps being blond haired and blue eyed means you have the propensity of being an ultra-right wing nationalist and should be allowed to own or use weapons because you may attempt to overthrow the government.
No, you are absurd for wanting to take away someone’s God given rights out of fear of a crime that they have not committed. Grow a set and stop being afraid.
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Yeah, I’m exactly that chicken. You face off against a schizophrenic with a firearm. Your family can tell me how it worked out. Better yet, run for public office with a platform of allowing schizophrenics to own and carry firearms. Tell us how that works out. You wouldn’t stand a snowball’s chance in hell ...because nobody agrees with you.
Just what I thought. You don’t give a shit about the constitution, rights or due process.
We don’t give prisoners the right to vote. We give cops the right to run stop lights, but we don’t give that right to you.
You are a lost cause. Your thinking and knowledge is weak. You are weak and scared. Go suck on the tit of government and have them keep you safe. They won’t.
“It’s what people know about themselves inside that makes ‘em afraid”
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