Pro-gun article

[Chico23231]

Bottomline, time to stop arming mentally unstable people. If you dont just keep expecting stories like this.

[RedskinRat]

Originally Posted by Giantone

You tell me ,how does the government go about keeping the guns out of the hands of the mentally challenged , without infringing on the 2nd amendment ?

I would imagine it would work in the same way that the elderly or visually impaired are denied driving privileges. How would you make it work?

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[NC_Skins]

I think people would be interested to find out the NRA's stance on mental health and gun owning. I think people should read it.


NRA-ILA | Mental Health and Firearms

Since 1966, the National Rifle Association has urged the federal government to address the problem of mental illness and violence. As we noted then, “the time is at hand to seek means by which society can identify, treat and temporarily isolate such individuals,” because “elimination of the instrument by which these crimes are committed cannot arrest the ravages of a psychotic murderer.”[1]

More recently, the NRA has supported legislation to ensure that appropriate records of those who have been judged mentally incompetent or involuntarily committed to mental institutions be made available for use in firearms transfer background checks. The NRA will support any reasonable step to fix America’s broken mental health system without intruding on the constitutional rights of Americans.

In recent years, anti-gun lawmakers have introduced legislation to expand the definition of people barred from possessing firearms to include persons who have simply been ordered to receive counseling. This could include a person whose employer or school administrator orders him to receive counseling as a condition of employment or enrollment, regardless of the outcome of such counseling. Similarly onerous legislation has been introduced in some states. At least one attempt has been made to ban gun ownership by anyone with any recognized diagnosis from the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders—an outrageously broad standard that would affect the rights of countless Americans.

[Chico23231]

Originally Posted by NC_Skins

I think people would be interested to find out the NRA's stance on mental health and gun owning. I think people should read it.


NRA-ILA | Mental Health and Firearms

Lotta lip service. They are certainly not in the fore front pushing for legislation.

Like I alway say, take the backyard perspective on things. You good with living next to someone with major mental illness who needs medication constantly who has a cache of weapons in his/her house?

[NC_Skins]

Originally Posted by Chico23231

Lotta lip service. They are certainly not in the fore front pushing for legislation.

Like I alway say, take the backyard perspective on things. You good with living next to someone with major mental illness who needs medication constantly who has a cache of weapons in his/her house?

I'm just pointing out their official stance on the issue. Nothing more.

[CRedskinsRule]

One thing that could go here, or the media thread, is the use of the term Mass Shooting.

When NBC broke in with a live report of a mass shooting at Fort Hood, my mind had a # of dead of 20 like Sandy Hook, but it was 4. I don't mean to belittle those that died in any way.

Still, when you hear terms like mass graves in the holocaust, or other such terms, surely your mind is thinking in large numbers of dead. And I think the media terms them as mass killings to make it more dramatic. Again to use the car fatalities, nearly every day masses of people are killed in automobiles. Why not that term there.

anyway just ranting

[NC_Skins]

Originally Posted by CRedskinsRule

One thing that could go here, or the media thread, is the use of the term Mass Shooting.

When NBC broke in with a live report of a mass shooting at Fort Hood, my mind had a # of dead of 20 like Sandy Hook, but it was 4. I don't mean to belittle those that died in any way.

Still, when you hear terms like mass graves in the holocaust, or other such terms, surely your mind is thinking in large numbers of dead. And I think the media terms them as mass killings to make it more dramatic. Again to use the car fatalities, nearly every day masses of people are killed in automobiles. Why not that term there.

anyway just ranting

Not only that, but they somehow managed to find a way to blame the black guy for it all.


‘Fox & Friends’ finds Obama ‘responsible’ for Ft. Hood shooting within first 24 hours | The Raw Story

[Chico23231]

Originally Posted by NC_Skins

Not only that, but they somehow managed to find a way to blame the black guy for it all.


‘Fox & Friends’ finds Obama ‘responsible’ for Ft. Hood shooting within first 24 hours | The Raw Story

My response to co worker yesterday morning, "blame obama, fox will eventually"

[Giantone]

Originally Posted by NC_Skins

Not only that, but they somehow managed to find a way to blame the black guy for it all.


‘Fox & Friends’ finds Obama ‘responsible’ for Ft. Hood shooting within first 24 hours | The Raw Story

[RedskinRat]

How often is that the case? What if their compulsive gun cleaning is all that keeps them sane?

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[RedskinRat]

That never happened when Bush was in office <brown_font>

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[CRedskinsRule]

Originally Posted by RedskinRat

That never happened when Bush was in office <brown_font>

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Well it's certainly true Fox never blamed Bush, MSNBC, now that's a different story.

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