Why were they so mad!? Couldn't they just see a therapist and work through it?!
Posted on 04/08/2015 1:57:04 PM PDT by BenLurkin
Almost one in 10 Americans has a history of impulsive and angry behavior and ready access to guns, new research indicates.
The serious mental health issues that would legally prevent someone from purchasing a gun -- such as involuntary commitment to a psychiatric ward for schizophrenia or bipolar disorder -- only account for about 4 percent of U.S. gun violence, noted study author Jeffrey Swanson.
"There is a potentially much larger group of individuals in our society who struggle with pathological impulsive and destructive anger that would not normally turn up as serious mental illness on a background check," said Swanson, a professor in psychiatry and behavioral sciences at the Duke University School of Medicine in Durham, N.C.
Yet these people -- mostly young or middle-aged men -- break and smash things and get into fights when they get angry, his study found.
The study of more than 5,600 adults found that 8.9 percent of them were admittedly short-fused people who had guns at home, "which I would say is something of a wake-up call," Swanson said. And 1.5 percent of them also carried their guns outside the home.
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If anger is outlawed only outlaws will be angry.
guns and knives, tire-irons, bricks, baseball bats, vehicles, poisons, bathtubs ...
Tranquilizers.
For every male that isn’t certified as docile.
I’m more concerned about the 90% who are complete idiots and still have the ability to vote.
Good Lord, See-BS is stretching on this one. 1 in 10 Americans has anger issues and access to motor vehicles too. Run for the hills before some angry, crazy driver mows you down!!!!!!
Why were they so mad!? Couldn't they just see a therapist and work through it?!
I wonder what percentage of angry Americans has access to knives or automobiles?
It sure is good that liberals don’t have guns.
Those folks HATE everything and everybody all the time.
It also seems like all the school shootings when some non-conservative gets his feelings hurt.
Perhaps gun ownership should be limited to non-athiest global warming deniers as a matter of public safety.
They just need a Safe Space™ with Play-Doh and puppies in it to avoid all that redcoat microagression. I’m being oppressed! I’m being oppressed!
LOL
“Anger issues”. Love the highly scientific clinical lingo. WTF DOES IT MEAN!?
Sheesh, has the Domestic Violence Unit been called on this guy!?
King G the 3: Pass out the Pacifiers!
They are two separate issues, however there is a professional agitator in the WH who keeps pushing buttons hoping to get people snap so he can create new laws allowing him to take them away. Meanwhile his ravial division crews and staged shooting teams continue to create headlines so he can get their approval via knee-jerk reactions from the naive, low common sense IQ folks...
Freedom haters believe that if you think you need a gun, you are too paranoid to have one.
All anyone has to do is imply that someone has "anger issues" and they SWAT your home to get your guns.
100% of leftists have mental issues
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