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MADem

(135,425 posts)
13. Well, I am an old fart and I don't find a lot of things funny.
Tue Jan 15, 2013, 02:54 PM
Jan 2013

I see a concerted effort forming to play a "divide and conquer" disruption game, using Sandy Hook/Child Safety, gun control/NRA types, and mental illness as the competing interests.

It's like the right wing game that Rush Limbaugh drags out periodically, where he tries to divide the liberal, pro-choice/pro-equality community by postulating that one day, "they" will come up with a test for a gay gene, and all those "liberal women" will run to get abortions to get rid of their gay fetuses (never mind that logic would suggest that rightwing bigots would be more likely to overcome their professed distaste for termination were that the case...). Anyway, I digress--if I see much more of this kind of shit here, though, I will start to discern a pattern.

Yes, they should screen for a preponderance of caucasian blood, too, as well as MADem Jan 2013 #1
I don't think the irony was too subtle demwing Jan 2013 #4
Well, I am an old fart and I don't find a lot of things funny. MADem Jan 2013 #13
If the statistics bear out other screening needs, than so be it Fresh_Start Jan 2013 #14
The statistics DO bear out those things I mentioned, and more. MADem Jan 2013 #18
actuarial approaches make sense Fresh_Start Jan 2013 #21
We'll just take the guns away from the white people, then, and our problem is solved. MADem Jan 2013 #23
maybe owning guns is, itself, a sign of mental illness. then what? nt msongs Jan 2013 #2
Really? demwing Jan 2013 #7
we know that is not the case Fresh_Start Jan 2013 #8
sounds good samsingh Jan 2013 #3
Maybe meth use too? siligut Jan 2013 #5
yes, meth use would also make sense Fresh_Start Jan 2013 #6
Is it also guns or not? You list them as a yes and a no in your thead title. Rex Jan 2013 #9
its the combination of guns with the other items Fresh_Start Jan 2013 #10
But what happens when one of 'them' goes crazy Rex Jan 2013 #11
who are them? nt Fresh_Start Jan 2013 #12
Doesnt have a mental illness or use drugs or own a gun. Rex Jan 2013 #15
well than we'd have to develop new risk signs Fresh_Start Jan 2013 #16
Did not say it wasn't a good idea Rex Jan 2013 #20
we probably can't identify the specific individual Fresh_Start Jan 2013 #22
Since this is such an important issue, maybe monthly checks - IdaBriggs Jan 2013 #17
I know, I think they should be congratulated Fresh_Start Jan 2013 #19
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