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F4lconF16

(3,747 posts) Fri Oct 2, 2015, 03:41 AM Oct 2015

In the wake of this latest shooting, I ask once again...

Please.

Please.

Please do not attack the mentally ill.

They are my friends and community and they are NOT the cause of this.

They are NOT to blame for a culture that can watch 22 children shot to death without a response.

They are NOT to blame for a country in which the right to bear a lethal weapon outweighs the right to live without fear of that lethal weapon.

They are NOT to blame for media that react as if misogynistic, right-wing sociopaths are mentally ill.

They are NOT to blame for a health system that has utterly failed to take care of the few that did unfortunately come into contact with the huge numbers of weaponry floating around our streets.

They are NOT to blame.

Please, if you are not going to help them, then at least just shut up and leave them the fuck alone. I am tired of watching them demonized.

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In the wake of this latest shooting, I ask once again... (Original Post) F4lconF16 Oct 2015 OP

Thank you for the message to remind us. TexasTowelie Oct 2015 #1

I'm right there with you! DebJ Oct 2015 #2

I'm with you 100%. Old Crow Oct 2015 #3

Well said. Thank you. n/t justhanginon Oct 2015 #4

Kick nt F4lconF16 Oct 2015 #5

TexasTowelie

(112,145 posts)

1. Thank you for the message to remind us.

Reply to F4lconF16 (Original post)

Fri Oct 2, 2015, 04:03 AM

Oct 2015

DebJ

(7,699 posts)

2. I'm right there with you!

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Fri Oct 2, 2015, 04:25 AM

Oct 2015

Old Crow

(2,212 posts)

3. I'm with you 100%.

Reply to F4lconF16 (Original post)

Fri Oct 2, 2015, 05:49 AM

Oct 2015

The pro-gun lobby has clearly decided that the way to take the heat off easy availability of firearms is to blame the mentally ill. There has been such a conflation of mental illness and mass shootings in the media of late that I'm concerned we're going backwards by decades in stigmatizing mental illness.

Two facts need to be emphasized:

1. The vast majority of the mentally ill are far more likely to be victims of violence than perpetrators of violence.

2. Other developed nations have mentally ill citizens, just as we do. What they do not have is mass shootings on a regular basis.

justhanginon

(3,290 posts)

4. Well said. Thank you. n/t

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Fri Oct 2, 2015, 08:28 AM

Oct 2015

F4lconF16

(3,747 posts)

5. Kick nt

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Fri Oct 2, 2015, 12:34 PM

Oct 2015

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