It always comes down to mental illness

[Barth]

http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2013/04/10/it-not-knives-it-not-guns-it-mental-illness-that-kills/

Dylan Quick, the 20-year-old accused of going on a stabbing rampage yesterday—
injuring 14 people at Lone Star Community College in Texas—
should settle the gun control/violence debate, once and for all.
That won’t happen, of course,
because people who want to restrict personal freedoms
will still turn a blind eye to the obvious:
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Anyone who now advocates limiting public access to knives of one kind or another,
including the kind allegedly used by Mr. Quick,
is either hopelessly misguided or a charlatan
looking to make political points from this latest tragedy.
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Take all the guns away.
Take all the knives away.
The number of victims of murders with no apparent motive—
born of under-treated, poorly treated or untreated mental illness—
will be reduced not one bit.
Because there will still be cars, and poisons, and hammers, and axes
that can be used to inflict horrible injuries.
The worst episode of school violence, back in 1927,
claimed the lives of 38 children, and it involved explosives, not guns or knives.
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[bulletdodger]

Agreed. But then again, we're just conspiracy theory nut jobs aren't we?

[muggsy]

I blame the ACLU. Those liberal elbows put the mentally ill on the streets and then left them to fend for themselves.

[aKahrt_and_p2KT]

I think a focus on mental issues and illness could be a positive step but if they start gun grabbing at issues like "do you ever feel stressed" then I think that'll cause a bunch more problems, such as people not seeking help for their issues.

[RevRay]

jocko better learn to type better ... just saying.

[Barth]

jocko better learn to type better ... just saying.

Jock's waiting for voice recognition keyboard-less computer.

[ltxi]

jocko better learn to type better ... just saying.

Ahhhhahahaha.....funniest thing I've heard in a long time!!!!

[JFootin]

Mental illness.....or Democrat? :confused:


James Holmes (Aurora CO/Theater)- registered Democrat, volunteering for the Obama campaign.
Jared Loughner (Tuscon AZ/Giffords shooter)- Anarchist/Atheist, think “Occupy Wall Street” and “Bill Ayers”
Nidal Hasan (Ft Hood Massacre), registered Democrat/Muslim
Adam Lanza (Sandy Hook Massacre), registered Democrat tmk/Atheist.
Christopher Dorner (California killer on the run), registered Democrat, anti-NRA, Obama supporter.
Seung-Hui Cho (Virginia Tech) – Registered Democrat. Wrote hate mail to President Bush.
Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold (Columbine) – Both products of registered Democrats; progressive liberals
James Chester Blanning (planted bombs) – registered Democrat
John Patrick Bedell (Pentagon shooter) – registered Democrat
Joseph Stack (crashed airplane into IRS building) – registered Democrat tmk
The Unabomber – Democrat/Liberal agenda; climate/earth freak
John Allen Muhammad (Freeway Sniper/D.C. area) – Democrat tmk/Muslim
Faisal Shahzad (Times Square Bomber, 2010) – Registered Democrat tmk/Muslim

So why are the Democrats wanting to disarm right wing gun owners? Why are they calling us terrorists?

[bulletdodger]

I think Joe Rogan put it well when he said "we have a mental illness problem disguised as a gun problem and a tyranny problem disguised as a security problem."

[HarleyJack]

I blame the ACLU. Those liberal elbows put the mentally ill on the streets and then left them to fend for themselves.

What? It was the Joint Commission on Mental Illness and Health, an independent body set up by Congress in 1955. The states were spending too much money on state mental hospitals and they had a bad reputation. So they decided to push mental health issues to the community level and off the state budget. However, they never worked out any funding for the local governments to accommodate these people. So they ended up on the street where they continue to pile up.

[RevRay]

I thought I'd post this link from another thread, since the subject matter works on this thread.


Here's a follow-up article from The Salt Lake City Tribune.

http://archive.sltrib.com/article.php?id=20928981&itype=storyID

One more example of the problem being mental illness.

[Tyme49]

I think Joe Rogan put it well when he said "we have a mental illness problem disguised as a gun problem and a tyranny problem disguised as a security problem."

Exactly SPOT ON! ... (Note to self: REMEMBER that quote!)

[Barth]

Exactly SPOT ON! ... (Note to self: REMEMBER that quote!)

I too thought that statement sums things up nicely.