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mass shootings
« on: February 21, 2018, 04:39:00 PM »
With the latest mass shooting the media is all a lather over gun control. The guns didn't jump up and start firing on their own, somebody pulled the trigger.   

Am I the only person who sees these incidents as a mental health issue not a gun issue?  Without exception every single school shooting in the US has been done by someone on psych meds.  I think the real issue is the meds and mental health of the person, not the weapon they use for the deed.

When my husband was in grade school back in the late 50s, the boys would bring their guns to school so they could go squirrel hunting on the way home in the afternoon.  No one worried that they would shoot each other, menace each other, or steal another kid's gun.  What is different?  Their mental state.

I think we should be looking into the prescribing of psych meds and their unintended side-effects.  I consider them more dangerous than a loaded gun.

Did you know that over 1 million children age 5 and UNDER are on psych meds?  A quarter MILLION are age 1 and under!  How on earth could a 5, 7, or 9 month old need psych meds?

Something is VERY wrong here.



Re: mass shootings
« Reply #1 on: February 21, 2018, 06:38:02 PM »

Where's the alarm of the number of deaths resulting from police shootings each year? 

Here's an article summarizing fatal shootings by police in 2017...
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Here’s How Many People Police Killed in 2017

Michael Harriot
1/02/18 11:26am
Filed to:POLICE BRUTALITY

Police officers killed 1,129 people in 2017.

More people died from police violence in 2017 than the total number of U.S. soldiers killed in action around the globe (21). More people died at the hands of police in 2017 than the number of black people who were lynched in the worst year of Jim Crow (161 in 1892). Cops killed more Americans in 2017 than terrorists did (four). They killed more citizens than airplanes (13 deaths worldwide), mass shooters (428 deaths) and Chicago’s “top gang thugs” (675 Chicago homicides).

Yet only 12 officers were charged with a crime related to a shooting death.

An extensive new study from Mapping Police Violence details the data for police violence. The collective tracks police shooting numbers and statistics, maps the incidents and compiles the data in real time. The site uses information from a number of sources, including Killed by Police, Fatal Encounters and the U.S. Police Shootings Database, to break down shootings by race, location, weapons used, and whether or not the victim was armed. It is a valuable tool used by academics, researchers and certain writers at The Root.

Aside from the fact that only 1 percent of the officers who killed someone were charged with a crime in 2017, some of the report’s most interesting facts include the following:

Of the 534 killer cops Mapping Police Violence was able to identify, 43 had shot or killed someone before. Twelve had previously shot or killed multiple people.
Most of the people killed (718) were suspects in nonviolent offenses, were stopped for traffic violations or had committed no crime at all.
13 percent of people killed by cops were unarmed.
Most of the unarmed victims were people of color. Of the 147 unarmed people killed by police, 48 were black and 34 were Hispanic.
Black people accounted for 27 percent of the people killed by law enforcement officers. Of the unarmed victims of police violence, blacks made up 37 percent, almost three times their percentage of the U.S. population (13 percent).
Of the people who were unarmed and not attacking, but were still killed by cops, 35 percent were black.
95 people were killed when police shot at a moving vehicle, a practice that many say should be banned.
170 of the people killed were armed with a knife. in 117 of those incidents, police shot the person before trying any other method to disarm the person.
20 percent of the people who had a gun when they were killed were not threatening anyone.
Law enforcement training spends seven times more hours training officers on the use of firearms than on how to de-escalate situations.
Again, only 12 officers were charged with a crime after killing 1,129 citizens they were sworn to protect and serve. Here’s to another banner year of police getting away with murder.

Can’t you feel America getting great again?

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.theroot.com/heres-how-many-people-police-killed-in-2017-1821706614/amp


Re: mass shootings
« Reply #2 on: February 21, 2018, 07:15:50 PM »
With the latest mass shooting the media is all a lather over gun control. The guns didn't jump up and start firing on their own, somebody pulled the trigger.  

Am I the only person who sees these incidents as a mental health issue not a gun issue?  Without exception every single school shooting in the US has been done by someone on psych meds.  I think the real issue is the meds and mental health of the person, not the weapon they use for the deed.

When my husband was in grade school back in the late 50s, the boys would bring their guns to school so they could go squirrel hunting on the way home in the afternoon.  No one worried that they would shoot each other, menace each other, or steal another kid's gun.  What is different?  Their mental state.

I think we should be looking into the prescribing of psych meds and their unintended side-effects.  I consider them more dangerous than a loaded gun.

Did you know that over 1 million children age 5 and UNDER are on psych meds?  A quarter MILLION are age 1 and under!  How on earth could a 5, 7, or 9 month old need psych meds?

Something is VERY wrong here.
There are no mass shootings as these things are almost always a hoax... :sleep:

Re: mass shootings
« Reply #3 on: February 21, 2018, 08:30:48 PM »
There are no mass shootings as these things are almost always a hoax... :sleep:
Go to Florida right now and say that to their faces.
Anyway, you should keep guns out of the crazies and let your average law-abiding citizen have their gun. It works for the Swiss and they've had maybe 3 mass shootings ever.

Re: mass shootings
« Reply #4 on: February 21, 2018, 09:16:34 PM »
Florida House Aide Fired after Claiming Florida Shooting Survivors are 'Actors'

(Investigate first)

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2018/02/20/florida-house-aide-fired-after-claiming-florida-shooting-survivors-are-actors.html