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Nearly 9% of Americans are angry, impulsive - and have a gun, study says
latimes.com ^
| 4/8/2015
| Melissa Healy
Posted on 07/15/2015 12:07:42 PM PDT by rktman
Tread lightly, Americans: Nearly 9% of people in the United States have outbursts of anger, break or smash things, or get into physical fights -- and have access to a firearm, a new study says. What's more, 1.5% of people who have these anger issues carry their guns outside the home.
The findings, published Wednesday in the journal Behavioral Sciences and the Law, suggest that measures to reduce gun injuries and deaths should focus less on diagnosed mental illness and more on a history of violent behavior.
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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Philosophy
KEYWORDS: 2a; banglist; cops; donutwatch; guncontrol; waco; wacopolice
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OMG!!!!! Don't know how we missed this one from back in April but for me, I'm stayin' inside from now on. Oh, wait. No I'm not. Angry? Nah. Pissed off? Some.
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posted on
07/15/2015 12:07:42 PM PDT
by
rktman
To: rktman
And most nearly all of them are government workers with badges...
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posted on
07/15/2015 12:09:27 PM PDT
by
NFHale
(The Second Amendment - By Any Means Necessary.)
To: rktman
What about all the angry, impulsive people who own knives and baseball bats? Should we prohibit them from owning these things; issue plastic cutlery perhaps.
What if they discover that most of the impulsive, angry people with guns are criminals or people of one race?
It’s a poser.
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posted on
07/15/2015 12:09:34 PM PDT
by
Pining_4_TX
(All those who were appointed to eternal life believed. Acts 13:48)
To: rktman
And I would venture most are democraps or non-politcal gimme-dats.
To: rktman
An armed wociety is a polite society.
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posted on
07/15/2015 12:09:45 PM PDT
by
Mad Dawg
(In te, Domine, speravi: non confundar in aeternum.)
To: rktman
An armed wociety is a polite society.
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posted on
07/15/2015 12:09:47 PM PDT
by
Mad Dawg
(In te, Domine, speravi: non confundar in aeternum.)
To: rktman
The LA Slimes needs to study what illegal invaders from Mexico do, especially when they’re drunk. Slaughtering entire families on our highways is one of their favorite past times.
To: rktman
Well my odds are worse when I drive, but I’m going out!
To: rktman
And that’s just in Baltimore!
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posted on
07/15/2015 12:10:43 PM PDT
by
Edgar3
(Libnorance is a mental disease, and it's getting Progressively worse!)
To: rktman
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posted on
07/15/2015 12:11:17 PM PDT
by
mass55th
(Courage is being scared to death - but saddling up anyway...John Wayne)
To: Edgar3
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posted on
07/15/2015 12:11:29 PM PDT
by
Drango
(A liberal's compassion is limited only by the size of someone else's wallet.)
To: rktman
What's more, 1.5% of people who have these anger issues carry their guns outside the home. COOL!
See y'all at the range!
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posted on
07/15/2015 12:12:37 PM PDT
by
Old Sarge
(Its the Sixties all over again, but with crappy music...)
To: rktman
Nearly 9% of people in the United States have outbursts of anger, break or smash things, or get into physical fights -- and have access to a firearm... Yeah! You read that right!
Now leave me alone before I yell at you, break a chair over your head, punch you in the face and then shoot your a--...
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posted on
07/15/2015 12:14:09 PM PDT
by
WayneS
(Yeah, it's probably sarcasm...)
To: rktman
"The findings, published Wednesday in the journal Behavioral Sciences and the Law, suggest that measures to reduce gun injuries and deaths should focus less on diagnosed mental illness and more on a history of violent behavior."
Well, a criminal conviction for violent behavior will already disqualify you in most states, so just what are they suggesting? That the state go out interviewing your co-workers and ex-girlfriends?
To: rktman
What percentage of angry impulsive Americans have access to cars?
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posted on
07/15/2015 12:16:27 PM PDT
by
TigersEye
(This is the age of the death of reason and rule of law. Prepare!)
To: rktman
That’s what happens when liberals run the government.
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posted on
07/15/2015 12:19:18 PM PDT
by
JJ_Folderol
(Diagonally parked in a parallel universe...)
To: rktman
In L.A. they could start by strict policing of the 18th Street Gang, MS 13, the Bloods, Crips and other organized outfits that are armed, angry and easily pissed-off. But crime control really isn’t the object, is it?
To: NFHale
And most nearly all of them are government workers with badges...For dogs, this is very bad news....
"If it was up to me, if you uttered the words 'gun control,'
we'd put you in jail." Ted Nugent
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posted on
07/15/2015 12:21:59 PM PDT
by
trisham
(Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
To: Last Dakotan
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posted on
07/15/2015 12:22:48 PM PDT
by
NFHale
(The Second Amendment - By Any Means Necessary.)
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