Gun Violence Is NOT A Mental Health Issue It's A Culture Issue
Everywhere I went today all I heard was people saying gun violence is a mental health issue. But that's not right! The English language has a glitch, we call Bad people "Psychos". But that's not really what the word psychopath actually means. Now there's a whole movement to crack down on people who have been abused and traumatized, as if they were the ones responsible for causing abuse and trauma. It's absolutely ridiculous. You should call things what they are. Bad people are just bad people.
Nowadays, every time there's a mass shooting a huge wave of people go on the news saying that the shooter was a crazy person, and that's crazy! All of those people on the news are just helping the shooters legal case by calling them crazy. What we all need to realize is that just because insanity is a popular legal defense for bad people, that doesn't mean that they're actually crazy. Think about it, of course bad people are going to try lying to get out of trouble. Telling lies is just part of being bad.
It's important to know the difference between people with real mental health issues and people who are just plain bad. Hearing voices does not make you homicidal, why would it? You hear voices every night in your dreams. Does taking a nap make you want to go out and shoot people? No, of course not! Being crazy is not the same thing as being bad.
Being bad inside and filled with hate and violent thoughts are what makes people homicidal. There are a whole lot of curse words that I could use to describe certain bad people, but if you really think about it, not very many of those words are really accurate. The English Language has that glitch, I think it's called 'hyperbole'. That's why we have dumb movements to lock up mental patients, which would basically be equal to arresting folks for catching the flu.
Don't believe me? The numbers are actually very similar. Check this out, it's estimated that at least 1 in 10 Americans are prescribed psychotropic drugs. And anywhere from 5% to 20% (an average of 1 in 10) gets the flu. And no matter what you want to believe about "crazy people", at least they're not contagious. Can you say the same thing about bad people?
Very well written and it's sooo true what you write. Describing people as crazy has become an excuse for people to get away with murder literally. I was quite suprised to know how any Americans get prescribed with psychotic drugs, that is worrisome.
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nice post but let's pray GOD and JESUS CHRIST to stop the gun violence
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The mental health issue is just propaganda the NRA and gun manufacturers pay the media to tell people...
This is a simple issue of mathematics, the more guns you have in circulation and the easier it is for people buy guns the more gun deaths there will be. The reason the USA has the most gun deaths than any other country on earth is because the USA has more guns than any other country on earth...
If politicians really wanted to stop gun deaths all they would have to do is duplicate the laws of a country that have less gun deaths, the reason they wont is because they are paid not to...
Willfully incomplete. More guns does not factually equate to more gun death as shown.
What about countries like Switzerland that have mandatory enlistment of males between 18 - 40?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Switzerland
Sure, if you make the comparison to countries that are in constant conflict/war and run by drug cartels and oppressive governments, than yes you are correct those countries have less guns than the USA but more gun deaths per capita
implying the US isn't in a constant state of military intervention, ongoing drug war, or an oppressive government.
Sure the US military is on foreign lands, and I don't agree with any of that intervention. But what is going on domestically in some of those countries in your chart is no even remotely close comparable to what goes on domestically in the USA.
That is why most of the time statistical data like this is used only from countries with similar governments and living conditions to the USA...
I am merely showing that murder and gun ownership are not correlated. I am making no further claims.
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The overlap is in what you call "real mental health issues". People who have biological chemical levels that are way off of the norm is what I assume you mean by "real". I agree there is a difference. The problem is that our culture creates a massive amount of mental health issues: increases in depression/adhd and other issues are from people not functioning well in the constructs of societal boundaries. I have very severe ADHD, but it is only a problem when I am forced to do pedantic tasks with no direct productivity coming out, or work jobs that I can see lead to almost no change in life quality (ie, we may work building computers but if we are building them to break quickly on purpose just to make sure we have a job building computers we start to feel very trapped and rightly so). When i allow myself to sleep when I need to and work at my own pace, and on things that need or actually create something ( even services like massages or working in a restaurant where you create a joyful experience for someone is satisfying- its all of the wasteful time wasting stuff that bums me out) I am an extremely super-productive person. You are right, it is a cultural issue, and our culture is one that creates mentally unbalanced, frustrtated aggressive individuals.
Also, this video talks a lot about how we have been engineered/manipulated by employers over the years- it was a VERY informative video. Misplaced aggression is no joke , and people who are angry without understanding why are even more dangerous and easily manipulated. "Pay on half of the poor to kill the other" is a real thing :/
The gun culture is America is mentally ill. -- AR 15 riffles! that's a battle field weapon . WTF!
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I do not agree gun violence as a culture issue. It could be a personal problem.
I would wager that if you looked at when we took prayer out of school and started our moral decline in the USA. You would find that not long after that we started seeing the effects like these types of shootings. I agree that it a cultural issue. These shooters just excel at being culturally and morally bankrupt.
That was when we first started hearing rumblings, but it was around the mid '90's (when Christianity not only lost its official status but started to become unpopular) that things really got bad.
there are all manner of other factors at play (China, for instance, is an Atheist country and while they've got fifty-five squillion problems gun violence is not one of them unless you count the amount of it that happens at the hands of the PLA), but the loss of morality altogether, which has its roots in the loss of the God, the loss of the entire Judeo-Christian cultural core, is at the root of America's problems right now.
I agree, morals with no real basis other than "just because we said so" aren't really points of strength.
"just because" isn't how morals work. Taking from someone like Kant or Lysander Spooner on natural laws, morals are derived from the logical application of first principle of self ownership. We do not need religion, we need logic.