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Don't Stigmatize Murderers!
Ann Coulter Dot Com ^ | 28 May 2014 | Ann Coulter

Posted on 05/29/2014 12:48:10 AM PDT by Rummyfan

Mass murder at a sunny college campus in a beach town would normally be considered "newsy," but Elliot Rodger's massacre at the University of California-Santa Barbara last Friday is getting surprisingly little press.

This is not a good case for liberals: The killer was an immigrant, a person of color, and the majority of his casualties resulted from attacks with a car or knife. It makes as much sense to rant about the NRA as to blame the Auto Club of America or the National Knife Collectors Association.

Rather, what we have is yet another mass murder committed by a schizophrenic -- just like those of Seung-Hui Cho, Jared Loughner, James Holmes and Adam Lanza.

Yes, they all used guns. Also, they were all males. They were all college-aged. They all had hair. Those are not distinctive characteristics.

When the last five mass murderers share something that only 1 percent of the population has, I think we've found the relevant common denominator.

Rodger had been seeing therapists since he was 8 years old. Just last year, his psychiatrist, Dr. Charles Sophy, prescribed him Risperidone, an anti-psychotic. But after looking up what Risperidone was for -- schizophrenia -- Rodger decided "it was the absolute wrong thing for me to take" and never did.

(Excerpt) Read more at anncoulter.com ...


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1 posted on 05/29/2014 12:48:10 AM PDT by Rummyfan
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Mental illness is not a factor to the opportunistic, hysterical gun grabbers.


2 posted on 05/29/2014 12:50:37 AM PDT by Gene Eric (Don't be a statist!)
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Sad case of a weirded out man, deep in illusion.


3 posted on 05/29/2014 12:55:22 AM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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To: Rummyfan

Nikolai Gogol, great writer.


4 posted on 05/29/2014 12:57:18 AM PDT by nickcarraway
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To: Gene Eric

Sometimes sin can be of such a kind that it overtakes a person’s entire mind. And I’m a poet and don’t know it, I rhyme every time :-).


5 posted on 05/29/2014 12:57:45 AM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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To: Rummyfan
From the article:Remember the good old days when someone like this was institutionalized.
6 posted on 05/29/2014 12:58:03 AM PDT by upchuck (Support ABLE, the Anybody But Lindsey Effort. Yes, we are the ABLE!!)
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To: nickcarraway

Did he ghostwrite the madman’s manifesto?


7 posted on 05/29/2014 12:58:35 AM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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To: upchuck

The obsessions about sex would have been seen as crazy in the older days. Now it’s just “normal.”


8 posted on 05/29/2014 12:59:17 AM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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To: Rummyfan

Bookmark


9 posted on 05/29/2014 1:01:07 AM PDT by aquila48
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To: upchuck

Trouble is, he wasn’t complaining about what the lava lamp said. He was complaining about how the lovers looked. And because we are so bleepedly oversexed in this land today, Nobody Cared.


10 posted on 05/29/2014 1:02:57 AM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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To: Gene Eric
Mental illness is not a factor to the opportunistic, hysterical gun grabbers.

With some of the lunacy that comes from the gun-grabbers, I'm not so sure...

They are just afraid of being institutionalized.

11 posted on 05/29/2014 1:05:38 AM PDT by Smokin' Joe (How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing.)
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I think he means, they don’t care about trying to keep the maddest of madmen away from society.


12 posted on 05/29/2014 1:08:02 AM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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Permanent link:

http://www.anncoulter.com/columns/2014-05-28.html


13 posted on 05/29/2014 1:10:05 AM PDT by Slings and Arrows (You can't have Ingsoc without an Emmanuel Goldstein.)
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To: Smokin' Joe

Yup.

Given the violence normally stems from the Left, its collective desire to eradicate guns makes sense. The problem, however, is that we’re not all deranged Leftists that need to be corralled.


14 posted on 05/29/2014 1:11:14 AM PDT by Gene Eric (Don't be a statist!)
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Wow! Ann knocked that one out of the park.


15 posted on 05/29/2014 1:14:35 AM PDT by Slings and Arrows (You can't have Ingsoc without an Emmanuel Goldstein.)
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>> Sometimes sin can be of such a kind that it overtakes a person’s entire mind.

I don’t mean to sound grim, but existence is intrinsically evil, and not necessarily in the animated sense.


16 posted on 05/29/2014 1:19:22 AM PDT by Gene Eric (Don't be a statist!)
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I think he means, they don’t care about trying to keep the maddest of madmen away from society.

I reiterate:

With some of the lunacy that comes from the gun-grabbers, I'm not so sure...

They are just afraid of being institutionalized.

Much of their hoplophobia that cannot be directly traced to posturing for profit, seems to be a personal fear of either their ineptitude or what they might do with a firearm should they have one, projected onto others.

Then there are the ones who want to control everyone...

Neither is a particularly mentally healthy subset of the human race, imho.

17 posted on 05/29/2014 1:19:32 AM PDT by Smokin' Joe (How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing.)
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The problem, however, is that we’re not all deranged Leftists that need to be corralled.

Not even all of the leftists are that deranged, but those who are cannot imagine being any other way.

For them, the fear of weapons may be a healthy thing, if they are afraid they cannot control themselves well enough to not present a danger to those around them.

It is in projecting their emotional problems onto others where they start drifting away from the saner part of the bell curve.

18 posted on 05/29/2014 1:26:45 AM PDT by Smokin' Joe (How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing.)
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To: Gene Eric

Animated? Like a cartoon?

A Christian salvation experience can bring a madman out of his madness. It’s not always instant like the New Testament attesting miracles and sometimes the road can be pretty frighteningly bumpy. But holiness can bring a road to sanity, of course with the devil yanking this way and that all the while.


19 posted on 05/29/2014 1:38:51 AM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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To: Smokin' Joe

There COULD be a sympathy factor. Dunno. They may just not be as enamored of normalcy.


20 posted on 05/29/2014 1:40:27 AM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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