Sunday, October 4, 2015

The obligatory Oregon shooting post

Gun-free zones are a colossally bad idea.

It was a mistake on the societal level to veer from a policy of getting the seriously mentally ill into safe environments, away from the general public.

Social media has exponentially stoked the narcissism that was already rotting our culture.

That's pretty much the long and the short of it.

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  1. It appears you are pointing the finger of blame at all of us, just like Obama is, but for different reasons.

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  2. No doubt, there's a level of collective indictment in my view on this. The key phrase in your comment is "for different reasons."

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  3. We must reject the idea that every time a law's broken, society is guilty rather than the lawbreaker. It is time to restore the American precept that each individual is accountable for his actions.

    Ronald Reagan

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  4. Your point is no different from mine. There is no system of mental institutions anymore, so when a nutcase lets loose in some public environment, you drop him.

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  5. The aftermath of a mass shooting might actually be the worst time to talk about mental health, because for the record, the vast majority of mentally ill people are nonviolent, and the vast majority of gun violence is committed by non-mentally ill people." --John Oliver

    Read more at http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/john-oliver-mental-health_56124040e4b076812702757e

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  6. But I am sure you prefer the Nixon-Reagan way: lock em up and seize their property while and if you can.

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  7. And round up your young men and women and brainwash them to hate and kill "responsibly."

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  8. Somewhere along the line we mainstreamed mental illness and jailed marijuana usage by normies. Nicotene's next. Viva Freedoma! GD MFers!

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  9. Great read available at your local public library: The Gay Revolution by Lillian Federman,S&S, September, 2015, 816 pages. You have often expressed exasperation at the progress made by gays to the point of the legalization of gay marriage. The book opens with the arrest and wreckage of the life of a distinguished professor at the University of Missouri in 1948. Your ilk could not keep them contained and nothing your ilk did could make them stop. Get a clue. Hint: key word is FREEDOM!

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  10. Get a clue: God. Get a clue: millennia-old, worldwide definition of marriage.

    Get a clue: The guy guy who shot up the theater in Colorado, the guy who shot up the school in Connecticut, the guy who shot up the church in South Carolina and this guy in Oregon were all certifiably nuts

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