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Originally Posted by barbara
Ike, I do not always like the way you deliver your posts, with your raw truth and blunt message because it is sometimes a bit too caustic for me. But, the post above was simply great! Those are the words I could never articulate when trying to respond to people who want to blame all gun violence on mental illness.
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Awww shucks barbara. I guess I'm just lucky to have ended up a woman who is maybe a worse potty mouth than I am, and also a mental health professional. When people ask what it's like having spent over 50 years with another head shrinker...we tell them about our typical morning greeting to each other.
Ike: Hey g'morning babe.
The Blonde: WTF do you mean by that?
Lyric from one of my favorite recording artists Dave Edmunds, "Standing at the crossroads, again"
I guess I'm not the man she was looking for
I'm just the man she found.
Anyway...this stuff about "mental health" from the right is just a tangential purposeful distraction. There are just as many people per capita with legitimate mental health problems in the UK as in the USA. And yet, somehow, our firearms homicide rate is 40 times the rate in the UK. The difference is...withing a year of the first mass school shooting in the UK, the Dunblane Massacre, the Brits had a national law making possession of pistols, magazine loaded long guns, and of course assault weapons illegal. They can still get their long barreled hunting rifles and shotguns, it's arduous and expensive but they can get licenses. But no more pistols or semi-automatic weapons. And no more democratized gun carnage like we have.