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kpete

(71,996 posts)
Tue Nov 7, 2017, 09:11 AM Nov 2017

"It's not a gun situation, it's a mental health situation"

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..........let’s focus on Trump’s argument that this is about mental health and not a problem with guns. With that being the case, what are you going to do about it? Oh, yeah. Not a damn thing. They haven’t done anything about bump stocks yet. Still too soon?

One of Trump’s first acts as president was signing a bill revoking Obama-era gun checks for people with mental illnesses. So, President Dipshit…if mental health is the issue then why are you making it easier for them to purchase assault rifles?

When a brown guy kills eight people by running them down in a rental truck, we got immediate proposals from Trump. Let’s ban Muslims from specific nations. Let’s do extreme vetting. Let’s have law enforcement stalk mosques. Let’s ship them off to Guantanamo and then give them the death penalty. But, a white guy shoots up a church or a concert in Las Vegas, and Republicans can only offer thoughts and prayers. In case you haven’t noticed, the last shooting was in a church which is full of thoughts and prayers. Thoughts and prayers is a nice gesture, but they’re empty gestures.

The thing about the gun nuts that can drive me crazy is their reaction to shootings. Each and every single time this happens their first concern are for the guns, not the victims. the gun culture lacks empathy.

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"It's not a gun situation, it's a mental health situation" (Original Post) kpete Nov 2017 OP
I agree it's a mental health situation... doodsaq Nov 2017 #1
Perfect. dalton99a Nov 2017 #2
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