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Shooting at CT Elementary School. WTF AMERICA?!

Started by Suu, December 14, 2012, 05:45:48 PM

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Quote from: M. Nigel Salt on January 19, 2013, 06:16:06 AM
So, repurposing doctors as gun control detectives (completely ignoring the fact that guns are outside the purvey of doctors, that most people don't see their doctors frequently enough for it to be useful, and that most gun violence happens by people who are not diagnosed with a mental illness) is a partial solution, but measures to resolve societal stressors are not worth a second mention. Got it.

But that's complicated, and hard, and might actually involve rearranging society so that the rich don't get nearly all the goodies.  Plus it isn't amenable to a quick fix that will win the next election.

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No-one in overworked, underpayed government departments EVER makes sloppy date-based errors.

Clearly, Lanza was killed and replaced by an MK-Ultra assassin Obama bought in from Indokenya.

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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jackson-katz/men-gender-gun-violence_b_2308522.html?utm_hp_ref=tw

I thought it was time to insert a different perspective on this debate, rather than focusing on mental health.


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Quote from: Pixie on January 24, 2013, 02:52:25 PM
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jackson-katz/men-gender-gun-violence_b_2308522.html?utm_hp_ref=tw

I thought it was time to insert a different perspective on this debate, rather than focusing on mental health.



Woah.  So there are so many thoughts swimming through my head about this that there's no way for me to form a coherent reply.  I can say, however, that there are some really interesting points raised in there that, coming from an experiential perspective, make a frighteningly amount of sense.

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Quote from: Bu☆ns on January 24, 2013, 03:10:52 PM
Quote from: Pixie on January 24, 2013, 02:52:25 PM
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jackson-katz/men-gender-gun-violence_b_2308522.html?utm_hp_ref=tw

I thought it was time to insert a different perspective on this debate, rather than focusing on mental health.



Woah.  So there are so many thoughts swimming through my head about this that there's no way for me to form a coherent reply.  I can say, however, that there are some really interesting points raised in there that, coming from an experiential perspective, make a frighteningly amount of sense.

I was figuring that things like race and gender of the perps was getting overlooked as a common thread in school shootings and cases like the Aurora shooting at the cinema, and it was all getting bogged down in mental health stuff.

Anna Mae Bollocks

TBH, gun violence is one of the last things I've ever been worried about. I'm generally on guard against A) rapey guys, B) getting arrested on some trumped up charge and C) getting hit by a car. You know, things that commonly happen. I've only been shot at once in my entire life, and I was hanging around crazy drunks when that happened - WELL DUHR.
When my kids were in school, I worried about the same things for them. You know, things that had a good chance of actually happening.

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Bump.

Here's some interesting stuff about Adam Lanza.  Looks like he was a fan of some form of anarcho-primitivism...and Anders Behring Breivik.

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/exclusive-lanza-twisted-call-radio-station-article-1.1580984

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