Posted on 05/29/2022 7:13:03 AM PDT by rktman
Actor Jon Voight reacted to the deadly Uvalde, Texas, school shooting by suggesting that Americans should undergo “proper testing” for gun ownership.
On May 28, 2022, four days after the heinous attack on Uvalde’s Robb Elementary School, Voight posted a video to Twitter and said:
It’s not about left right, guns no guns, this about brains that are disfunctioning, this is mental. This is not about healthy human beings serving the country with arms to bear or even the right of this constitution for bearing arms. It is a right to use arms with proper purpose to defend one’s safety, we must not allow mental illness to take away our right to bear arms.
Voight then spoke of those killed by the gunman, saying “These innocent souls…are children of God. I must remind us all that God will take home these angels.”
The Oscar-winner then posted a second video, in which he said, “We must identify every individual for their credentials for their mental capacity to bear arms. There should be proper qualifications for gun ownership, and proper testing. One should only own a gun if they’re qualified and schooled.”
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All we want are just two or three rows in the back of the plane where you can’t smoke. It’s just “common sense”.
Well, this idea could make me rich.
But if 60 million or so Americans own and operate firearms safely without psychological evaluations, the arguments for evaluations are intellectually dishonest, if not abjectly stupid.
If Biden got a mental evaluation he would be disqualified.
Another point. Guns were banned at the school. The criminal gunman didn’t bother abiding by that ban. More gun laws only hurt law abiding citizens, never the criminals. The reason for the shooting was not because of the gun used, it happened because the school was NOT locked down, and because there weren’t enough armed guards on the school grounds, and no armed teachers to protect the kids.
Jon should take a hard look at these facts, and stop blaming everyone else who weren’t Invovled. The only ones responsible are liberals who fought agaisnt securing schools, arming teachers, and the gunman. Liberals have blood on their handfor the shootings, not gun owners, yet it is liberals that project because thay is all,they have- to blame others for,gheirmown miserable failings.
😊. I remember those days when we would book seats based on the smoking section.
shall not be infringed— another stupid idiot who doesn’t understand English words.
Only an absolutely insane person would do these terrible things we see, so lets start there. Then after the fact we find out a dozen or more people already knew they were nuts. The parents, schools, other students, councilors and even medical staff. Hell he was even telling people what he was going to do online. There was plenty of time to catch this but nobody bothered. We used to lock these people up in Mental Institutions, now we just leave them on the streets.
I remember when smoking in hospitals was a thing. I got out of surgery, when I was able to walk, and woild smoke in the bathroom to keep it away from folks in the room, then when i felt better woild walk outside for one- nkw you cant even have one anywhere on the grounds.
[[But who will test those giving the test? You really want to be tested by some Psychologist who actually wants to prevent everyone from having a firearm?]]
Zactly. But watch feckless gop rinos “compromise” with the left until The left get their foot in the door and get some kind of mandatory evaluations or something similar, and just like gay marriage, oncd they have a foothold, they will ramp up the assaults and the gop rinos will look dumbfounded, not understanding why the left “betrayed them” once again. It’s a long way till November, can our constitution survive that long? Biden is already,thinking about executive order
Folklore in medicine has been that the majority of physicians who specialize in psychiatry are at least as mentally ill as their patients, and there is a good deal of evidence to support that.
The US has normalized psychotic thinking. There are people who actually believe that a man can get pregnant and a woman can have a penis, and they aren't considered bizarre or out of the ordinary.
“And who makes that determination?”
Especially in the case of the street corner sale to include guns which account for about 10% to 15% of guns used in crimes according to the ATF. Our problem is not with the legitimate gun purchasers but with the people who use trunk choices because they can’t get them legally or fast enough. Legit buyers go through the process and an effort is made already to determine their capacity. It doesn’t always get all of them identified. So maybe our lawmakers should admit their screwups and change the system to do a better job. And while they are at it, maybe that should be considered to leak over to other things they do.
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Sheela JACKs’n Lee (snap fingers) also wanted a photo of the flag that we planted on Mars.
She’s a Democrat tick. I have no idea how people even run against her.
Like Pelosi. They MUST have hitmen on payroll.
[[Hell he was even telling people what he was going to do online]]
Exactly- people that are writing things like he did online for everyone to see need to be looked into heavily- just assume they mean what they are saying- the co sequences for getting It wrong are just too severe.
There is this show on ID “Evil Lives Here”. There are stories from actual events where a family had a youngster who displayed violent tendencies at young ages. They violence progressed until the ultimate violence of killing happened.
Many of those stories were about over the years how many of these families sought help and even institutional care for what they knew was going to happen sooner or later with their violent kid. Most of them were denied help.
Some of these parents are to blame who deny their kid is a psycho, but others know it, suffer for it, and are helpless to stop it.
I had to take gun safety to pass hunter license course in California 51 years ago at age 12, not that big of a deal to know basic gun safety as long as gun owning rights not infringed.
Ya mean like Alec Baldwin?
[[Many of those stories were about over the years how many of these families sought help and even institutional care for what they knew was going to happen sooner or later with their violent kid. Most of them were denied help.]]
And that sums up the problem. The elderly do not want to fix that problem either, because then they have no excuse to call for gun bans
And where has one of my favorites Cincinnatus-wife gone to? Hope everything is ok.
Test: “Are your a citizen without violent felony conviction?”
According to Democrats, you don’t even need to be a person to vote, under their one person — 10,000 votes system.
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