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cbdo2007

(9,213 posts)
Mon Dec 17, 2012, 12:55 PM Dec 2012

It's not the guns or mental illness - it is our fear everything/end of the world culture... [View all]

being promoted by the Republicans and that we are living in a world where everyone needs to arm themselves and defend themselves, and rise up against the world however they can.

Guns don't kill people, that's true, ACCESS to guns for people who are encouraged to rise up agains the world is the problem and the people promoting these ideas want to make it easier and easier for the people listening to them who are easily influenced to rise up for their beliefs.

Mental illness does not cause someone to kill a room full of children in a spray of bullets!! Teaching someone with mental illness that we are in the end times and that the government is trying to get you, and the economy is going to collapse and we're all going to have to fight to survive is what causes someone with mental illness to want to kill people.

I'm not sure why so many here are blaming guns and mental illness when the finger should be directly pointed at the Republicans who put targets on our peaceful politicians and laugh about it, the ones who are building bunkers in their back yards and buying the 160 meal ration crate at Costco, the ones who make money by pushing people to buy gold because our economy is on the brink of collapse, etc.

I HOLD THEM DIRECTLY RESPONSIBLE and THIS BEHAVIOR OF manipulating people and brainwashing them with lies HAS TO STOP!!

Ask a Rush Limbaugh or Bill O'Reilly listener where they get their news - they'll say from Rush Limbaugh or Bill O'Reilly!! They actually think these entertainers are a news source. Yet, these "news sources" are constantly putting violent, end of the world thoughts into the heads of our most vulnerable citizens and they are increasingly coming forward to act on these thoughts in horrific ways.

Ok, rant over. I'm just sick of us not looking at the real problem here. It's the same as it's been for years now, and it just keeps increasing.

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