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Ideal_Rock
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Re: How many guns, in total, are owned by people in your hom
Agreed.
And I would add that, as a nation, we need to spend a whole lot more money on the prevention and treatment of serious mental illness. Diseases like schizophrenia often show up during adolescence and young adulthood -- the high school and college years. I'm not qualified to diagnose James Holmes, but I have my suspicions that he may be one of the approximately 1 in 1000 young people who develop schizophrenia during their 20s.
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thing2of2|1343223516|3239649 said:justginger|1343201095|3239546 said:aljdewey|1343196151|3239528 said:Outlawing guns won't eliminate violence; amending the way we treat each other (or, more aptly, mistreat each other) would probably go much longer toward resolving it.
This cannot be true. People are much the same, around the the world, as most travelers will attest. There's greed, corruption, deception, rage, hand in hand with tolerance, optimism, generosity, and kindness. If access to firearms is not the direct cause of higher death-by-firearm statistics, what is? People in Australia (Canada, England, Germany, Portugal, wherever) still get angry, get revenge, have psychotic breaks - the difference is that, thanks to decent gun regulations, the vast majority of victims recover in the hospital after being beaten by a cricket bat. They're not in the morgue with two slugs in their chest.
Totally agree, justginger. Clearly, strict gun control works, as the countries you've listed have miniscule amounts of gun crime. (As opposed to the US, where it's only a matter of time until the next disturbed individual kills a ton of people.)
Agreed.
And I would add that, as a nation, we need to spend a whole lot more money on the prevention and treatment of serious mental illness. Diseases like schizophrenia often show up during adolescence and young adulthood -- the high school and college years. I'm not qualified to diagnose James Holmes, but I have my suspicions that he may be one of the approximately 1 in 1000 young people who develop schizophrenia during their 20s.
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