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In reply to the discussion: Dear "take away guns and only bad guys will have them" People, [View all]Leroy Schaefer
(1 post)34. shooters
My wife who passed away in sept. 2012 was a Psychiatric clinical nurse (got her degree from university of Maryland). She always said when discussing mass shootings etc was because it is very hard to get somebody confined to an institution now because states can't afford it. So now they try to control people with psychiatric problems with drugs. However most all of the drugs have side effects which include homicide and suicidal thoughts. If you go back and check most all of the persons who committed these mass shootings were on some sort of psychiatric drug.
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Finally, the average American will understand that you all are arming yourselves against....
Walk away
Jan 2013
#29
I don't have a gun. I don't like guns. I hate violence. I hate the violence I've seen cops do
Fire Walk With Me
Jan 2013
#33
If what I've described is not bad enough to move you...things are bad enough as they are,
Fire Walk With Me
Jan 2013
#39
An overwhelming percentage of murder victims are killed in single murders, not mass murders
slackmaster
Jan 2013
#8
I don't understand how you could have drawn that conclusion from what I wrote
slackmaster
Jan 2013
#20
Wasn't the rifle used in the massacre compliant with the CT Assault Weapon Ban?
aikoaiko
Jan 2013
#13
It was, but their high capacity magazine ban was defeated due to heavy NRA lobbying.
JaneyVee
Jan 2013
#26
"bad guys kill other bad guys...and they do it on "the other side of the tracks"
crazyjoe
Jan 2013
#19
"We are not talking about the guns that "bad guys" have because they aren't the ones killing dozens
Lizzie Poppet
Jan 2013
#21
Are you saying people on some sort of psychiatric drug should not have access to guns? Please clarif
uppityperson
Jan 2013
#36
Except that a gun ban will substantially increase the black market trade of illegal guns
blazeKing
Jan 2013
#35