Posted on 12/15/2012 10:42:30 AM PST by Yashcheritsiy
Unfortunately healthcare and pharma industry is larger then gun industry. Lobby power is bigger. MSM including Fox will not take on this issue. It is very simple. Hello Fox (or MSM) try to start a campaign holding pharma drugs responsible for unstable behavior and we will pull our advertising off your channel and see what happens to your revenue stream! Money talks and BS walks. Fox CEO puts phone down and tells Hannity to shut up. That is how corporate fascism works.
What they are actually meant to accomplish. They will keep those like his law-abiding mother from getting, owning, and carrying guns... which means it will keep all of us from getting, owning, and carrying guns.
Mission accomplished!
P.S. It is only criminals and tyrants who flourish in the gun-free zones...
“And how we burned in the camps later, thinking: What would things have been like if every Security operative, when he went out at night to make an arrest, had been uncertain whether he would return alive and had to say good-bye to his family?... The Organs would very quickly have suffered a shortage of officers and transport and, notwithstanding all of Stalin's thirst, the cursed machine would have ground to a halt! If...if...We didn't love freedom enough. And even more – we had no awareness of the real situation.... We purely and simply deserved everything that happened afterward.” ― Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn
>>How about MENTAL HEALTH control? These tragedies started after the mental health hospitals closed and put the mentally sick loose on the public - and treatment of choice is Prozac, etc, - these shooters have almost 100% been on Prozac and related drugs, which have a PROVEN side effect of suicide and violence.!
Here is a link for you:
SSRI Stories / Antidepressant Nightmares - “We Speak for the Dead to Protect the Living”
http://www.ssristories.com/
You’ll note there is a School Shootings / Incidents category.
Oh, and needless to say, I’ll be very interested to see what we hear about this guy being under any psych care/meds.
It is worth noting that the Portland mall shooter was confronted with an armed citizen, ran off, and offed himself.
That one could have been much worse.
You aren’t hearing much about that.
Yeah, because that worked soooo well before, and was NEVER abused by those in the system, nor misapplied by those who decided who was committed (and for how long).
There are reasons it was ended.
Excellent, Yash.
All 4 reasons are spot on.
Thank for the link.
I, over a decade ago, used to research this and did stories on it - got nowhere -
really getting to the point where I think maybe a super charged solar flare that would knock out all electric/electronics might not be so bad.
Put us all back on a level playing field. Strat from scratch.
It is distasteful to talk about silver linings in the wake of such a tragedy. However, if the Dems overplay their hand on this, it could be THE thing that prevents them from gaining total control of Congress in ‘14. (up till now I had concluded that was a done deal)
If it doesn’t already, I’ll bet polling will show overwhelming majority support for banning ‘assault weapons’ like the one used in this shooting.
I don’t care about public opinion on this and I oppose bringing back the ‘assault weapons’ ban. I hope the House defeats any attempt to bring it back. But I think it will be hard. The pro-Democrat demographic shifts taking place are bad not only for Republicans but also for the Second Amendment. Most single women, as well as most Hispanics and most Asians are much less supportive of the Second Amendment, and are probably very supportive of banning ‘assault weapons.’
We won’t be able to rely on the Sup Court either. Heller and MacDonald were 5-4 decisions, and will most likely be overturned. And anyway, they didn’t address ‘assault weapons.’ I think it’s a safe bet that either John Roberts or Anthony Kennedy (or both) would okay a ban on ‘assault weapons.’
We already have mandatory waiting periods, background checks and registration. While we can still purchase guns and ammunition for the time being, we are in severe danger of becoming Hungary in 1956. You see, as an iron curtain nation, Hungary was already under the control of the USSR. Their guns were fully registered in order to be legal.
But, post-war Hungary chafed under the rule of the Soviets and kept trying to circumvent their rules. So, one week in 1957, all of the guns were confiscated by government troops going house-to-house using gun registration information. The following week, Soviet tanks rolled across the border as the USSR clamped down on their iron curtain satellite.
These pieces are already in place here. All we lack are the government troops (remember Obama wanting to certify the military to conduct arrests of American citizens on American soil?) knocking at your door and confiscating your guns. With zero and his nanny-state sycophants demanding tighter gun control laws, there isn't much of the Second Amendment left for them to circumvent.
We have already reached the America Ayn Rand described at the end of Atlas Shrugged. There's no Galt's Gulch, but everything else is here. It isn't much of a stretch to envision zero deciding to strike down the Second Amendment with an EO. The Christmas recess is approaching and this plays perfectly into his hands. After all . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . he won!
Well I don’t think that’s dumb at all! There can be other things one can do! I realize that not all people are easy with guns, and could use something else.
A very good article!
Pity no one will ever read it.
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