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FSogol

(45,524 posts)
Thu Dec 3, 2015, 03:45 PM Dec 2015

Our insane approach to guns and the people who use them to slaughter us

We’ve had the guy with the shock orange hair. The hermit with the scraggly beard. The gamer living with mom. The misogynist virgin. The disgruntled office worker. The Korean American college kid. The African American veteran.

Until Wednesday’s rampage at a holiday party in San Bernardino, Calif., the only thing we hadn’t had was a woman picking up guns and slaughtering innocent people. But now police tell us we have a Muslim couple with a 6-month-old baby — Syed Rizwan Farook and his Pakistani-born wife, Tashfeen Malik — to add to the ranks of mass shooters and our country’s endless, exhausting gallery of gore.

With each of these rampage shootings — we’ve had more of them this year than we’ve had days — we try to pinpoint what triggered the violence. It’s the mental health system. It’s video games. It’s the recession. It’s religious fanaticism. It’s racial hatred.

Yes, these are all contributing factors. But the real common thread among these shooters is obvious: their access to guns.


rest of the article by the Washington Post's Petula Dvorak here:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/our-insane-approach-to-guns-and-the-people-who-use-them-to-slaughter-us/2015/12/03/8ad73cfc-99c5-11e5-94f0-9eeaff906ef3_story.html?wpisrc=nl_buzz
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Our insane approach to guns and the people who use them to slaughter us (Original Post) FSogol Dec 2015 OP
Please expand on how you see it as the mental health system... HereSince1628 Dec 2015 #1
Try reading the article. It puts the blame squarely on guns. n/t FSogol Dec 2015 #2

HereSince1628

(36,063 posts)
1. Please expand on how you see it as the mental health system...
Thu Dec 3, 2015, 04:08 PM
Dec 2015

I do see barriers to people getting treatment--80% of Americans suffering mental disorders don't seek help-- but among the highest hurdles to cross are denial and refusal to seek help.

But I'd like to know what you thing the problem with the mental health system is.

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