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Nearly 1 in 10 Americans have severe anger issues and access to guns
Washington Post ^ | 7/08/17 | Christopher Ingraham

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 ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Extended News; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: america; anger; banglist; christopher; ebt; gungrabbers; guns; mediabias; wpgoebbelspropagada
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To: facedown
Propagandists like the WashComPost give us the mushroom treatment 24/7, Image and video hosting by TinyPic then ask with a straight face, "You mad bro'?"
41 posted on 07/08/2017 7:29:02 PM PDT by tumblindice (America's founding fathers: all armed conservatives)
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To: Libloather

What do they expect from bitter,deplorable, racist,religous clingers? Don’t piss us off and you won’t have any problems.


42 posted on 07/08/2017 7:29:32 PM PDT by Clarancebeaks
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To: Libloather

A recent study I performed proves that 99% of Washington Post journalists report crappy fake news.

Washington Post == fake news

#washingtonpostfakenews

LOL


43 posted on 07/08/2017 7:30:09 PM PDT by SteveH
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To: Libloather

What do they expect from bitter,deplorable, racist,religous clingers? Don’t piss us off and you won’t have any problems.


44 posted on 07/08/2017 7:30:20 PM PDT by Clarancebeaks
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To: BenLurkin
The thing about black Americans that a handful of people sometimes forget, is that they are Americans.

I they forget that too, being African-Americans and such...
45 posted on 07/08/2017 7:31:38 PM PDT by farming pharmer (www.sterlingheightsreport.com)
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To: Libloather

The actual article is dated April 8, 2015. I don’t understand why you refer to a “new study.”

Nor do I understand why the article should be posted under the “News/Activisim” category.

Those issues aside, have we suffered the explosion of gun violence that the author of the article obviously believes must happen, an explosion due to all those angry gun owners?

Don’t think so.


46 posted on 07/08/2017 7:32:38 PM PDT by Hawthorn
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To: Libloather

EVERY American conservative who has any contact at all with a liberal is going to have anger issues. EVERY liberal has anger issues because they suffer from a mental illness. I think 1 out of 10 is way too low.


47 posted on 07/08/2017 7:33:30 PM PDT by Terry Mross (Liver spots And blood thinners.)
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To: Libloather

SHUT UP! JUST SHUT UP! THIS ARTICLE PISSES ME OFF! I JUST WANT TO CLEAN MY GUNS, OK!


48 posted on 07/08/2017 7:34:41 PM PDT by Old Yeller (Auto-correct has become my worst enema.)
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To: Libloather

Right...and no anger exist with Muslims...they’re not angry shouting aloosnackbar!


49 posted on 07/08/2017 7:35:06 PM PDT by CincyRichieRich (We must never shut up. Covfefe: A great dish served piping hot!)
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So the malevolent MSM has access to guns?


50 posted on 07/08/2017 7:36:23 PM PDT by Gene Eric (Don't be a statist!)
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To: facedown
🔫. 93 million a day. Just ask tmac.
51 posted on 07/08/2017 7:36:29 PM PDT by rktman (Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?!)
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To: Libloather

Nearly 1o in 10 Washington Post readers have severe anger issues and are mentallyy ill.


52 posted on 07/08/2017 7:37:57 PM PDT by MarvinStinson
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To: Libloather

10% of the population is bat guano crazy ... the grass roots base of the Democrat Party.


53 posted on 07/08/2017 7:39:08 PM PDT by so_real ( "The Congress of the United States recommends and approves the Holy Bible for use in all schools.")
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To: Libloather

Actually, the author’s study is probably rather accurate... so I would advise him, DON’T MESS WITH US!


54 posted on 07/08/2017 7:39:43 PM PDT by Strac6 ("We sleep safe in our beds only because rough men stand ready to visit violence on the enemy.")
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To: Libloather

OK. Soooo...?


55 posted on 07/08/2017 7:40:25 PM PDT by super7man (Madam Defarge, knitting, knitting, always knitting)
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To: Libloather

And at least 90% of gun crimes are committed by rat party voters.


56 posted on 07/08/2017 7:46:54 PM PDT by Neoliberalnot (Marxism works well only with the uneducated and the unar)
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To: BobL

.. and with those results (that leftists are 100 times more likely to commit gun crimes), perhaps we add that to the federal form and PROHIBIT leftists from owning guns, due to the risk to society.<<

and never allow them to vote for that very same reason.....


57 posted on 07/08/2017 7:50:44 PM PDT by M-cubed
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To: Libloather

Police Officer in the lane next to me at the range this morning loaded his 40 with 9mm and couldn’t figure out the problem.

I’m keeping my guns.


58 posted on 07/08/2017 7:55:12 PM PDT by The Toll
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To: Libloather

Define “severe”.
Define “easy”.

L


59 posted on 07/08/2017 7:57:09 PM PDT by Lurker (America burned the witch.)
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To: PROCON

I’m angry at myself for not owning more bang sticks.


60 posted on 07/08/2017 7:59:53 PM PDT by TADSLOS (Reset Underway!)
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