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Lee-Lee

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22. No, mentally ill is mentally ill

Mon Sep 23, 2013, 06:43 AM

Sep 2013

They will act out differently, with a different tool if they can't get a gun. Having a gun doesn't change their brain chemistry.

But if someone is willing to kill, and a background check stops them from getting a gun, killing to get a gun in a robbery is not a giant leap to the next step.

I support background checks, but lets not be naive and pretend that it will stop anybody who is truly determined to get a gun from getting it. No more than requiring a prescription keeps people determined to get their hands on painkillers from getting them.

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NRA: Get 'homicidal maniacs' off streets [View all] Zater Sep 2013 OP

Let's start with the NRA. PDJane Sep 2013 #1

+1 nt Live and Learn Sep 2013 #2

NRA memebership lists would give us a place to start etherealtruth Sep 2013 #3

Exactly! And you just know that these yahoos listed the number and types TheDebbieDee Sep 2013 #4

GO TO HELL, LaPierre. n/t Jefferson23 Sep 2013 #5

So we just lock up people on the basis of a disability? Bjorn Against Sep 2013 #6

Not in the Bizzarro gun world etherealtruth Sep 2013 #7

Our mental health care system MuseRider Sep 2013 #8

same wavelength (post#9) handmade34 Sep 2013 #10

Nicely done. MuseRider Sep 2013 #15

OK and the way to do that is... handmade34 Sep 2013 #9

Thank you for this. thucythucy Sep 2013 #13

Thank you...I was getting ready to hop on this one big time. BlueJazz Sep 2013 #14

Careful, there, Wayne. Word on the street is that you're nucking futs. MineralMan Sep 2013 #11

Wayne LaPierre, holding forth on mental health? Paladin Sep 2013 #12

99% of them wouldn't be "homicidal maniacs"... PennsylvaniaMatt Sep 2013 #16

No, mentally ill is mentally ill Lee-Lee Sep 2013 #22

I wish we'd stop focusing on mass shootings Recursion Sep 2013 #17

Right. furious Sep 2013 #18

Thucydides' paradox Recursion Sep 2013 #19

Right wingers oppose health care, so.. how exactly do they propose to do that? RedCappedBandit Sep 2013 #20

Let us start with locking up Wayne LaPierre! B Calm Sep 2013 #21

the homicidal maniacs are the NRA BainsBane Oct 2013 #23