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Judi Lynn

(160,545 posts) Sat Sep 5, 2015, 06:53 PM Sep 2015

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Kenneth Cole Billboard Slammed by Psychiatric Association Over Gun Control Message

Source: NBC News

Kenneth Cole Billboard Slammed by Psychiatric Association Over Gun Control Message

by Lauren Prince

Sep 5 2015, 6:19 pm ET

Fashion designer Kenneth Cole's highly visible stand on the gun control debate is rankling a psychiatric group in the process.

A billboard from Cole above the busy West Side Highway in New York City reads: "Over 40M Americans suffer from mental illness. Some can access care… All can access guns." The message includes two hashtags: #GunReform and #AreYouPuttingUsOn.

But the American Psychiatric Association disapproves of the billboard's suggested correlation between mental illness and gun violence, and wants the message taken down.

Cole "is correct. There are over 40 million people that suffer from mental illness," Dr. Renee Binder, the association's president, told NBC News about the organization's campaign. But, she continued, there isn't a direct link between those who commit violent acts with firearms and have a mental illness.

Read more: http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/kenneth-cole-billboard-gets-slammed-over-gun-message-n422396

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Kenneth Cole Billboard Slammed by Psychiatric Association Over Gun Control Message (Original Post) Judi Lynn Sep 2015 OP

Is hate a mental illness? Scuba Sep 2015 #1

Not a mental illness.... bluevoter4life Sep 2015 #2

pretty sad that someone changed the message. He wasn't making a linkage here. He was stating roguevalley Sep 2015 #3

Being a white supremacist or a violent religious nutjob is not classified as a mental illness when it should be as a psychopathy. Fred Sanders Sep 2015 #4

Hell yes he is correct, We just need to look at who getting elected by the senile, incompetent voter rladdi Sep 2015 #5

Hate sucks. CBGLuthier Sep 2015 #6

Scuba

(53,475 posts)

1. Is hate a mental illness?

Reply to Judi Lynn (Original post)

Sat Sep 5, 2015, 06:57 PM

Sep 2015

bluevoter4life

(787 posts)

2. Not a mental illness....

Reply to Scuba (Reply #1)

Sat Sep 5, 2015, 07:03 PM

Sep 2015

But definitely a side effect of conservatism.

roguevalley

(40,656 posts)

3. pretty sad that someone changed the message. He wasn't making a linkage here. He was stating

Reply to Judi Lynn (Original post)

Sat Sep 5, 2015, 07:18 PM

Sep 2015

that given our lax laws, even people who would ordinarily factored out of gun ownership have no filters now.

Fred Sanders

(23,946 posts)

4. Being a white supremacist or a violent religious nutjob is not classified as a mental illness when it should be as a psychopathy.

Reply to Judi Lynn (Original post)

Sat Sep 5, 2015, 07:40 PM

Sep 2015

Change "mental illness" to "psychopaths" would make the point better and be accurate.

rladdi

(581 posts)

5. Hell yes he is correct, We just need to look at who getting elected by the senile, incompetent voter

Reply to Judi Lynn (Original post)

Sat Sep 5, 2015, 08:44 PM

Sep 2015

to understand we have a huge mental and uneducated population in the USA

CBGLuthier

(12,723 posts)

6. Hate sucks.

Reply to rladdi (Reply #5)

Sun Sep 6, 2015, 03:49 AM

Sep 2015

Left or right, hate sucks.

You really think senility of voters is an issue?

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