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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.”

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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
The problem is malevolence, which is by no means universal. However, it is common amongst those attracted to leftist philosophy, theology, and politics.

In fact, malevolence is the single strongest argument in favor of personal firearms.

101 posted on 12/27/2014 10:29:45 AM PST by 9thLife
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To: rktman


102 posted on 12/27/2014 10:36:45 AM PST by Iron Munro (Conservative Epitaph: Don't Cry For Me , You Still Have Two More Years Of Obama)
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To: central_va

Winter Kim chi: like Superman and green kryptonite, the only substance ever known to make Chuck Norris shed a single tear.


103 posted on 12/27/2014 10:45:07 AM PST by tumblindice (America's founding fathers: all armed conservatives.)
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To: Norm Lenhart

No. I did learn something about Latin roots, though, and grammar and spelling and such things as are not considered part of proper schooling nowadays.


104 posted on 12/27/2014 10:52:27 AM PST by arthurus
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To: rktman

105 posted on 12/27/2014 10:53:01 AM PST by E. Pluribus Unum (Any energy source that requires a subsidy is, by definition, "unsustainable.")
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

They’ve all got that Nancy Pelosi look!


106 posted on 12/27/2014 10:55:58 AM PST by Cowboy Bob (They are called "Liberals" because the word "parasite" was already taken.)
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To: arthurus

Yea but Dominatrixes are.


107 posted on 12/27/2014 10:58:50 AM PST by Norm Lenhart
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Perfect illustration of something I posted a while back. Look at the eyes. notice anything strange?


108 posted on 12/27/2014 11:00:32 AM PST by Norm Lenhart
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To: rktman

They misspelled her last name - the “Y” is supposed to be a “B”.


109 posted on 12/27/2014 11:05:14 AM PST by trebb (Where in the the hell has my country gone?)
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To: Norm Lenhart

I may have stolen it from you. I collect images I like on my home page and use them at appropriate times. If I stole if from you, thanks!


110 posted on 12/27/2014 11:05:44 AM PST by E. Pluribus Unum (Any energy source that requires a subsidy is, by definition, "unsustainable.")
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

No, I had just made the point that all these psychos all had a certain look and that’s the look. I also pointed out that they were ALL liberals.


111 posted on 12/27/2014 11:07:12 AM PST by Norm Lenhart
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To: Norm Lenhart

You were right. :)


112 posted on 12/27/2014 11:08:35 AM PST by E. Pluribus Unum (Any energy source that requires a subsidy is, by definition, "unsustainable.")
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To: Darksheare
"A good healthy portion of psychiatrists became psychiatrists because they themselves have mental issues."

Not to be a nit-picker, but I think it's definitely an unhealthy percentage. :D

My impression has been that psychiatrists are often crazier than their patients.

If Dr. Yonkers doesn't like the 2nd Amendment, she probably doesn't like the 1st Amendment, either. (I was thinking of the U.S. Army Improvised Munitions Handbook -- Amazon, $10.58 or available free from the US gov't as a download - which demonstrates how to make guns from readily available materials.) If somehow the US gov't managed to identify and collect all 300,000,000 -to 450,000,000 firearms in the US, making a gun is not rocket science.

The Brothers Tsarnaev bombed the Boston Marathon a couple of years ago with pressure cookers. What does she want to do, ban pots and pans?

113 posted on 12/27/2014 11:12:09 AM PST by Sooth2222 ("In a democracy people get the leaders they deserve." - Joseph de Maistre, 1753-1821)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

That look comes exclusively on the liberal face. Think about of it. Have any of us E V E R encountered it in person or in media on anything but a liberal? It is the look of insanity.


114 posted on 12/27/2014 11:12:25 AM PST by Norm Lenhart
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To: Gay State Conservative

Funny you should bring that one up. When I was in the 8th grade in 1960 the civics class assignment was to pick a candidate to review. Guess who I choose. LOL! It was a different dem party then.


115 posted on 12/27/2014 11:27:04 AM PST by rktman (Served in the Navy to protect the rights of those that want to take some of mine away. Odd, eh?)
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To: huldah1776

Geez. Looks like most places DON’T want it. That’s weird.


116 posted on 12/27/2014 11:29:01 AM PST by rktman (Served in the Navy to protect the rights of those that want to take some of mine away. Odd, eh?)
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To: DaveA37

“I have several guns that have NEVER jumped up and shot someone.”

Does that imply that you own some that *have* ? :)


117 posted on 12/27/2014 11:43:02 AM PST by PLMerite (Shut the Beyotch Down! Burn, baby, burn!)
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To: rktman

The problem is black and mentally ill.
If we disarmed all African-Americans - and the mentally ill the problem would no longer exist.

Of course, it’s politically incorrect to say as much, but that does not make it less true.


118 posted on 12/27/2014 11:43:07 AM PST by Bon mots (American Exceptionalism becomes American Acceptionalism under this regime... :()
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To: Sooth2222

LOL, true!

Doc Yonkers doesn’t understand or care about the implications of her position.
She ascribes behavior and aggression to inanimate objects because that is somehow comforting to her.


119 posted on 12/27/2014 12:00:45 PM PST by Darksheare (Those who support liberal "Republicans" summarily support every action by same.)
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To: henkster

that’s why I have to keep my guns in a safe, they just can’t be trusted. Lol


120 posted on 12/27/2014 12:18:04 PM PST by ChildOfThe60s (If you can remember the 60s.....you weren't really there)
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