June 16, 2014

Misguided Blaming of Disabled For Shootings



[From article]
a statistically microscopic minority of crazy people?
[. . .]
Why not instead focus on the source of the problem: the very small minority of mentally ill people who pose a danger to themselves and others?
[. . .]
Supreme Court has reaffirmed that we have a constitutional right to own a firearm, subject to reasonable regulation.

Goldberg proposes focusing on "a statistically microscopic minority of crazy people" to prevent mass killings, identifying that as "the source of the problem: the very small minority of mentally ill people who pose a danger to themselves and others." (Jonah Goldberg, "Blaming the culture is no answer to mass shootings," May 30, 2014, New York Post) Liberals blame guns. Conservatives blame mental illness which is just as nonsensical. Psychiatry is a business of social control using the police power of the state, sans Due Process. Illnesses are created by consensus. Psychiatry is not a scientific discipline. Nazi Germany and Stalin's Russia used psychiatry to silence critics, while collecting guns. Psychiatric industry has a better PR image than the NRA. Public thinks psychiatry is a helping, healing, caring profession of omniscient morally superior, godlike professionals. It is loved by politicians, and police (i.e., control freaks) as a way to control people.

http://nypost.com/2014/05/30/blaming-the-culture-is-no-answer-to-mass-shootings/

Blaming the culture is no answer to mass shootings
By Jonah Goldberg
May 30, 2014 | 11:00pm
New York Post

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