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America: We Have a Gun Nut Problem [Picture]
WE ARE IN LOVE WITH OUR GUN, FACE IT. THE UNITED STATES HAS A GUN PROBLEM, A GUN VIOLENCE PROBLEM AND, TO TOP IT OFF: WE HAVE A MAJOR DENIAL PROBLEM. NOW WE ARE HEADED STRAIGHT OFF INTO THE AVOIDANACE ZONE: SOME FOLKS SAY WE DON’T HAVE A GUN PROBLEM, just problems of crazy people with guns.
In their view, it’s a mental health problem. If that is the case, there are a lot of nutty, gun toting, gun owning American crazies out there., That’s right, cut mentall health funding, throw people with PTSD on the streets with no treatment facilities or programs, and then, when some of our fellow, gun packin’ Americans get frustrated, aggravated fellow citizens get angry, frustratated, or out of control, off their meds, or whatever balllistic brain fart hits their psyches, and they go on a shoot ‘em up rampage, blame it all on the “crazy”.
Well, we have to ‘blame’ it on something: why not crazy? Huffington post had a recent article explaining how Americans are trying to connect gun violence witth mental instability:
Increasingly, when we talk about gun violence in this country we also talk about mental illness. In many ways, this is not surprising: A number of instances of gun violence are committed by those with untreated, or undiscovered, mental disorders. This has lately led many politicians to place the blame for incidents of gun violence squarely on the lack of resources available for those suffering from mental illness. “It’s a mental illness problem,” Donald Trump recently declared on “Meet the Press” on NBC. “Guns, no guns, doesn’t matter. You have people that are mentally ill and they’re going to come through the cracks and they’re going to do things that people will not even believe are possible.”
And, it seems, most Americans would agree. A joint poll conducted by the Washington Post and ABC News and released last week found that while 82 percent of Americans surveyed thought gun violence is a serious problem, more people — by 2 to 1 — believe such violence is a result of inadequate methods and means of treating the mentally ill than of inadequate gun laws. The problem with these findings, though, is that they likely won’t be used to implement, or even argue for better, detection and treatment of those with mental illness. Instead, they’ll be co-opted by politicians — like Trump — who’ll use the survey and others like it as evidence that gun controls are just fine; that, as one site put it, “guns don’t kill people; crazy people do.”
Except that’s not entirely true:
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