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JDPriestly

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15. I can't K&R this enough.

Reply to gollygee (Original post)

Mon Oct 12, 2015, 12:08 PM

Oct 2015

The public has been distracted by all the talk about mental illness and violence.

Anger management is the key, and as a nation we are terrible at it.

Just look at some of the posts on DU.

Why are people so riled up about every little thing?

As the OP says, sometimes mental illness is a factor in mass murders.

Sometimes it is a factor in domestic violence.

But anger is the common denominator.

Anger and carelessness cause gun deaths.

There may be a couple of other causes in some gun deaths. But anger and carelessness are the two big ones.

On edit, alcohol as pointed out in the OP is also a common factor in many crimes especially gun crimes.

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Violence is not a product of mental illness. Violence is a product of anger. [View all] gollygee Oct 2015 OP

Excellent article!!! n/t RKP5637 Oct 2015 #1

Anger, hopelessness, alienation -- the kinds of things that take a huge, long-term, multifaceted Brickbat Oct 2015 #2

Well said. n/t OneGrassRoot Oct 2015 #4

yes, exactly, criminals like the school shooters are alienated, ellenrr Oct 2015 #11

I was just thinking that anger issues tblue Oct 2015 #3

The Kunduz hospital attack by US forces was a product of anger? Fumesucker Oct 2015 #5

this isn't about state-sponsored violence, obviously. n/t gollygee Oct 2015 #8

Murder - Violence condemned by the political class Fumesucker Oct 2015 #19

War is about profit, imperialism, and nationalism more than anger gollygee Oct 2015 #20

Excellent. Duppers Oct 2015 #23

how to you measure anger in a retail environment? dembotoz Oct 2015 #6

From the article: gollygee Oct 2015 #7

Mass shootings seem a combination anger and mental illness.. whathehell Oct 2015 #9

yeah. When kkk lynch Black people nobody says they've got a "mental illness" ellenrr Oct 2015 #10

certainly true with battering, which is usually quite "logical" and strategic zazen Oct 2015 #12

Correct. And self-pity. And desperation. nt bemildred Oct 2015 #13

But, splutter..that would mean those people aren't so different from us, and that just can't be. n/t jtuck004 Oct 2015 #14

I can't K&R this enough. JDPriestly Oct 2015 #15

Why can't it be both? nt B2G Oct 2015 #16

It is both. This is a crap artricle. Reagan's defunding of mental health services was a grave Hiraeth Oct 2015 #22

Anger management issues and misplaced anger are behaviorial and as such, can be signs Hiraeth Oct 2015 #17

From the article: gollygee Oct 2015 #18

Sociopaths are are very cunning. nt B2G Oct 2015 #21

Let me fix your subject line for you. Should read: From the crap article. But, yes genetics does Hiraeth Oct 2015 #24