Posted on 07/08/2017 6:57:38 PM PDT by Libloather
Roughly 22 million Americans -- 8.9 percent of the adult population-- have impulsive anger issues and easy access to guns. 3.7 million of these angry gun owners routinely carry their guns in public. And very few of them are subject to current mental health-based gun ownership restrictions.
Those are the key findings of a new study by researchers from Harvard, Columbia and Duke University. "Anger," in this study, doesn't simply mean garden-variety aggravation. It means explosive, uncontrollable rage, as measured by responses to the National Comorbidity Survey Replication in the early 2000s. It is "impulsive, out of control, destructive, harmful," lead author Jeffrey Swanson of Duke University said in an interview. "You and I might shout. These individuals break and smash things and get into physical fights, punch someone in the nose."
Angry people with guns are typically young or middle-aged men, according to Swanson's research. They're likely to be married, and to live in suburban areas. In a recent op-ed, Swanson and a co-author point to Craig Stephen Hicks, a North Carolina man who "had frightened neighbors with his rages and had a cache of fourteen firearms" and who shot three Muslim students earlier this year, as a quintessential example of an enraged gun owner.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...
All the more reason for me to carry.
How come these “angry” gun owners haven’t started widespread, violent gun assaults Nationwide?
The average Sodomite male has 400 sex partners per year, last I had read. That is 400 violent, potentially deadly, disease-spreading encounters per year. By violent, I mean doing something which is known to cause physical harm to a certain part of the body. So what are these “researchers” going to do about that?
They all seem to live in Chicago.
A good argument to give the other 9 in 10 Americans access to guns.
Well then, perhaps the msm should not be agitating them.
Yeah, and we’re angry at journalists...
The good news is that they’re all “democrats”. People with “anger issues” like the sore loser snowflakes shouldn’t have access to guns. They’re all crazier than hell because Trump won and Clintoon went wandering in the woods.
SALUTE
This garbage article is almost 2.5 years old. Why would you post it here; especially in the current events section?
Well...
These last few FReeper responses are
PRICELESS!
Yep - I think the numbers are low - there’s way more than 1 in 10 who are democrats....
I thought there might be a tie in to something going on these days that I was missing.
The standard libthink is that the other 9 out of 10 should be disarmed right along with the angry one.
Good morning.
The Wapo and this article gives me anger issues.
5.56mm
Nearly 1 in 10 Americans have severe anger issues and access to guns
Nearly 1 in 10 Americans have severe anger issues and access to cars
Nearly 1 in 10 Americans have severe anger issues and access to baseball bats
Nearly 1 in 10 Americans have severe anger issues and access to gasoline and matches
Nearly 1 in 10 Americans have severe anger issues and access to poisons and on and on and on...................
If this were true, there would be no anti-gun people left.
Begs the question that liberals always ask, "What has society done to make them so angry?"
Nearly 1 in 10 Americans have severe anger issues and access to bathtubs.
Nearly 1 in 10 Americans have severe anger issues and access to knives.
Nearly 1 in 10 Americans have severe anger issues and access to fists.
I was going to describe how I feel about this but, it's Sunday and well, I got to go to church after while so.....never mind.
AND I CARRY! NEVER HAD TO PULL IT YET, TRY AND STAY OUT OF MEMPHIS. BUT WOULD IN A HEART BEAT, NOT OUT OF ANGER.
6 MILLION LEGAL GUN OWNERS, AND WE ARE RATIONAL PEOPLE. STUDY STUPID, 99% OF KILLING VIA ANGER ARE LIBTARD DONE, LOOK AT WHAT THEY'VE DONE SINCE THE ELECTION, BURN, LOOT, SHOOT R CONGRESSIONAL PEOPLE & THREATEN TO SHOOT THEM JUST FOR BEING GOP.
I am a licensed carry Texan. I take my “little 380 buddy” with me everywhere I go. I have guns (loaded) within my home in locations where I can get to them instantly.
Why? When you need a cop call them (that is if the attacker will stop and wait for you to make the call) and they will be there when they get there...if at all. Always remember: When seconds count the cops will be there in a matter of minutes.
When I “open carry” some people stop and say “Why?” I tell them to protect myself and property...AND YOU.
There are no studies I’ve heard of whereby a planned robbery or assault was prevented by the culprit seeing someone carrying a weapon and the danger it could cause him if he attempted to carry out the action.
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