draw wrote:Because deprogramming US gun perverts and making 400 million guns disappear is lib fantasy and addressing our healthcare crisis is something we can start doing today. By all means keep talking about gun bans because that's the only way we gradually shift the overton window over the next 50 or 100 years but if we want to make the world safer in our lifetime we need to redouble our focus on the underlying psychological/sociological causes just like liberals/leftists are happy to do for just about any other social issue.
dr. badvibes wrote:Catullus wrote:Just popping in again to say that most of these shooters have no identifiable mental illness other than hatred/extremism (anger is not a mental illness)
i don't understand this, and if you or anyone else was willing to explain more i would be in their debt
anger isn't a mental illness, but there are millions of angry, racist extremists who restrict their violence to verbal/online abuse or voting for the party they know shares their angry racism. those individuals who are willing to convert their anger into the action of executing as many strangers as possible... why isn't that mental illness? to me it seems like there is a massive gulf between fantasizing (or even desiring others to action) physical violence vs. acting on that impulse
black mamba wrote:dr. badvibes wrote:Catullus wrote:Just popping in again to say that most of these shooters have no identifiable mental illness other than hatred/extremism (anger is not a mental illness)
i don't understand this, and if you or anyone else was willing to explain more i would be in their debt
anger isn't a mental illness, but there are millions of angry, racist extremists who restrict their violence to verbal/online abuse or voting for the party they know shares their angry racism. those individuals who are willing to convert their anger into the action of executing as many strangers as possible... why isn't that mental illness? to me it seems like there is a massive gulf between fantasizing (or even desiring others to action) physical violence vs. acting on that impulse
their actions are the logical endpoint of an ideology, in this case the idea of 'white genocide'
screaming emphysema wrote:Cool guy alert!
Pretty sure we can send this guy straight into the sun
screaming emphysema wrote:Pretty sure we can send this guy straight into the sun
draw wrote:would you also say suicide is not necessarily a mental health issue? if so then we're probably just arguing semantics at this point
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