I did not say that. I discuss mental health and the need to address regularly. However, America has a unique gun issue and the desire to blame it on mental health is an issue.
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Bernie was merely citing it as a contributing factor, which is 100% valid. You wrongly reduced his statement to nothing more than a “gun lobby talking point.”
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The idea that the gun lobby sincerely cares about the state of mental health in the U.S. is more absurd. Even more absurd is ruling out banning guns. Period.
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Ready for the most thorough buy back program in history.
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The closest in retrospect I came to death was a guy in college who had a psychotic break and pointed a gun at me. Decades later I remember the feeling in my gut with that rifle held on me..
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I had a friend who had a gun pointed at him once. He was quite traumatized by it. It really can have quite an impact on a person. I guess part of the American gun fetish is the "power complex". But mostly it's about
#NRA corruption and greed.
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If anything, this knee jerk reaction to self censor any discussion around these issues is benefiting the gun lobby's.
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I really hate the word "talking point" when used to describe someone's opinion. Its use is generally a sign the person using it isn't worth listening to.
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I use "state of mind" for what actually drives people (primarily young men) to do this. Includes both psychological problems & political/religious/ideological *convictions* Someone who is *driven* by either or both *will* find a weapon. 86 people were killed in NIce with a truck!
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I've never agreed with you more Michael.
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It's not absurd. People who don't give shit about mental health...people who advocate for cutting mental health 300 days a year... they all cite "mental health" on the 65 days a year we have mass shootings.
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A lot of people want the mass shootings to be about only one thing (fitting their political agenda), but really it's lots of things going on. Mental health is certainly one of them.
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Also this proves to me these people aren't operating in good faith. They would rather ban guns and still have people act out violently versus trying to figure out a way to prevent violence by trying to bolster mental health.
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Let’s just say that being a victim of a horrible crime doesn’t cure centrism
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Which one of the recent shooters was the demonstrably / previously diagnosed mentally ill individual. Tell us All
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Gee whiz guys. It's Bernie, what more can we expect. He was for guns for years because Vermont is a gun state. He's changed his tune somewhat, but we know the history.
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So, Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev had mental health issues?
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As if the Gun industry lobbies with anything near the ferocity of Pharma.
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Not only is the state of mental health an issue, but also by extension the economic and cultural state of disaffected, alienated, disempowered young men.
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