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of course the usual talking heads and political leaders get on air and scream for more gun laws.
I am a kid of the 70s/80s. We did not have these issues back then. If we did, it was extremely rare and the shooter had MENTAL and/or EMOTIONAL issues. When are we as a nation going to look and see what has changed in the last 40 years? We had weaker gun laws back then and did not have shooting like this.
Without going into details, at this time anyway, we have become a kooky nation. Morality is no longer held important. A lot of wrong things today are contributing to it.
I remember the 80's and we had something that was dubbed "Going Postal". It was where an over worked over stressed postal worker would take a gun to work and shoot his supervisor and maybe a few others that his troubled mind deemed as part of the problem. How did the PO stop this problem?
I think many of the shootings involved Vietnam Vets that were suffering from PTSD and when more stress was dropped on them they snapped.
We are seeing the same thing play out now. The last 2 mass shootings involved young guys, one of whom was interviewed by the FBI for his disturbing rants but both shooters were living on what they perceived as the fringe of society with little hope of ever fitting in.
This is scary because we now have millions of children that are being taught all manner of Far Left Leaning nonsense with some being made to feel ashamed they are white and others that are questioning their gender and themselves.
We are heading towards as time where an entire generation is going to be confused, unhappy with who they are and easily triggered to anger with few consequences for their outbursts.
The kids are being fed a recipe of garbage that will leave them with an upset stomach of PTSD.
Mental health is a diversion. If people weren't told they had it, they wouldn't have it. It's not like cancer or std's.
In WWI US soldiers were told they had shell shock so they had it. German soldiers weren't and they didn't.
Now they're told they have PTSD so they exhibit it. Israeli soldiers are not told they have it so they don't.
People are extremely susceptible to suggestion.
That's what's going on here. People who oppose banning assault weapons raise mental health as a way to avoid having to confront the real issue.
You make absolutely zero sense. Are you saying that because people have access to semi auto rifles, it drives them to kill other innocent humans ? That alone sounds like a sign of mental illness. Not to mention, a perfect mentally healthy person doesn't want to commit murder.
Mental health is a diversion. If people weren't told they had it, they wouldn't have it. It's not like cancer or std's.
In WWI US soldiers were told they had shell shock so they had it. German soldiers weren't and they didn't.
Now they're told they have PTSD so they exhibit it. Israeli soldiers are not told they have it so they don't.
People are extremely susceptible to suggestion.
That's what's going on here. People who oppose banning assault weapons raise mental health as a way to avoid having to confront the real issue.
Sorry, no, but you don’t know what you are talking about.
Depression is real, and unfortunately often leads to suicide and other terrible outcomes. Medication often saves lives.
What is a problem is the class of anti-depressants known as SSRI’s
This is a must read article that outlines the increased use of SSRI’s, how they came to be labeled as dangerous, and gives a long list of mass deaths where the killer was on SSRI’s, including the Columbine killers and Dylan Roof.
Did you know that SSRI’s are the third most taken drug in America, after NSAIDs like ibuprofen? Did you know there has been a 400% increase in the use of SSRIs since they were introduced? Or that 11% of Americans over the age of 12 take an SSRI?
Did you know:
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According to a review of the FDA’s database, 484 drugs were identified as triggers to serious adverse events significant enough to warrant a case study during the five-year period from 2004 through 2009. Of these 484 medications, 31 were identified to have a ‘disproportionate’ association with violence. These 31 drugs make up 78.8% of all cases of violence toward others in the FDA’s database and included multiple psychotropic medications:
Researchers concluded that violence against others was a ‘genuine and serious adverse drug event’ and that of the 484 medications, the drugs that were most consistently and strongly associated with violence were the smoking cessation medication, varenicline (Chantix), and SSRIs.
Did you know that violence towards others as well as suicide as a result of taking an SSRI is most common in those under the age of 25?
Here’s one example detailed in the article:
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2012: James Holmes, also known as the Batman Movie killer, was taking sertraline when he walked into the showing of The Dark Knight with two .40 caliber pistols, an AR-style .223 rifle, and a 12 gauge shotgun, killing 12 people and injuring 70 others. In his personal notebook, which he sent to his psychiatrist the same day as the shooting, shows that as the medication decreased his anxiety, he lost his fear of consequences. As the dosage became higher, his thoughts became more obsessive and psychotic.
Ignoring the pharmaceutical industry that has caused this while putting the blame solely on guns will do nothing to stop these horrible incidents. Nothing. Because people will then use knives or cars or bombs.
Failure to acknowledge this means that your only goal is to disarm Americans, and not to actually help prevent these tragedies.
Here's a wild notion to what could be pushing people over the edge......maybe its our available anywhere, anytime porn world that shows it in a "very realistic manner". That is, it is without a soundtrack, life doesn't come with a soundtrack, and without the constant loops of the good scene.
We show people a world like that but if they get to reality, it is "where is my wanton w****, where is my knight in shining armor?". Couple with it an advertising and entertainment world that shows that everyone eventually gets their SO, maybe people who are facing the reality that it is NOTHING AT ALL like what they have been fed all their life, are snapping.
Just theorizing.....mind you.
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