Mass shootings may be caused by Autism and Psychosis but mostly Fedoras
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Time to gas MLP conventions then.
[QUOTE=redBadger;41224611]I got a better idea.
Let's blame video games!!![/QUOTE]
Nononono.
You don't get it. Autism is at fault. That means vaccines are to blame here.
[QUOTE=Craigewan;41224662]My girlfriend was reading a Jodi Picoult novel with a similar (I think) plot just a couple of days ago. How weird.
And they'll have to be pretty careful with how they talk to the media about this, because this could totally be taken to be "Autistic people are mass-murderers waiting to happen!", which isn't the case.[/QUOTE]
that book was fucking horrible
[QUOTE=NoDachi;41227546]So mental health care is so bad in america that psychotic autistic people resort to shooting up places rather, rather than what happens in other comparative countries?
Are you honestly saying this?[/QUOTE]
actually yea. we have a very poor system for dealing with mental issues. a great deal of the homeless and incarcerated in the united states are mentally ill and end up slipping through the cracks; although with the state of our medical/justice system the cracks are more like chasms.
i don't wanna get into whether gun ownership is a direct cause of shootings, because that's just an exercise in futility. still, it would be pretty silly to say the united states' way of dealing with the mentally ill or mentally disabled is anything besides downright pathetic.
[editline]29th June 2013[/editline]
[QUOTE=Van-man;41227996]Now you're twisting words.
Naughty naughty you.
One of the only ways to be guaranteed mental treatment in the US, is if you've committed a crime, and has been found mentally unsound in the inevitable trial after being arrested.
And then you'd both be treated as someone in need of mental help [B]AND[/B] as a dangerous criminal.
To put it simple: the US sucks when it comes to preventive measures.
You can only expect help from the public system when it's already too late.[/QUOTE]
mmm i'v known people incarcerated who had serious depression and bipolar, they weren't really given too much help except medication while they were incarcerated.
and everyone knows vaccines cause autism
vaccines killed your children, america. - fox news
That fedora must have caused Indiana Jones to shoot them Nazis.
Great, the last thing we need to be doing is branding all autism spectrum kids as potential school shooters. That'll really help the social isolation problem.
Here's a revolutionary idea: How about we as a society [i]stop treating certain people like shit[/i]?
At least they are properly focusing on the right issue now, instead of gun control or video games they are focusing on the proper root which is mental health.
[QUOTE=crazyjames;41226070]I knew a fair amount of people with autism and I am on the fence. I mean some people are totally normal while others are severely autistic and freak out over telling them sonic the hedgehog died (True story bro). Also another autistic kid tried to kill me over a rock that apparently was his that I was standing on.[/QUOTE]
That's because there are different severities of autism. 'Assburgers' patients tend to function pretty decently in society under normal conditions.
[QUOTE=Used Car Salesman;41233777]
Here's a revolutionary idea: How about we as a society [i]stop treating certain people like shit[/i]?[/QUOTE]
good luck with that.
[QUOTE=Erebus.;41236079]good luck with that.[/QUOTE]
Well that's the wrong attitude to have.
Indeed. Too many people think only the way things are currently done works. Isn't that called closed-mindedness?
if humans did and thought the same way as they always have we would still be using primarily flint tools.
[QUOTE=NoDachi;41227323][img]http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/ezra-klein/files/2012/07/gun-ownership-declining1.png[/img]
firearm ownership is falling.
I guess you're another one who didn't understand what the link was saying anyway.[/QUOTE]... but there's literally no correlation between number of households with guns in them (ownership is not depicted in your chart, just percentage of households) and the decline in murder rates. I don't know what you're trying to say. :l
[QUOTE=JumpinJackFlash;41237259]... but there's literally no correlation between number of households with guns in them (ownership is not depicted in your chart, just percentage of households) and the decline in murder rates. I don't know what you're trying to say. :l[/QUOTE]
His argument was that there is an increasing number of people with guns, yet homicide is falling.
Which isn't true. The number of people with guns is falling, so is homicide.
I wasn't finding a correlation, only pointing out the fundamental flaw in his argument.
[QUOTE=NoDachi;41237665]His argument was that there is an increasing number of people with guns, yet homicide is falling.
Which isn't true. The number of people with guns is falling, so is homicide.
I wasn't finding a correlation, only pointing out the fundamental flaw in his argument.[/QUOTE]But... households... Those aren't actual people, they're just households, and ones who actually agreed to be polled in the first place.
Either way, I understand now. Thank you.
[QUOTE=JumpinJackFlash;41237682]But... households... Those aren't actual people, they're just households, and ones who actually agreed to be polled in the first place.
Either way, I understand now. Thank you.[/QUOTE]
maybe a clearer graph would have been
[img]http://i2.cdn.turner.com/cnn/dam/assets/120731095634-declining-gun-ownership-chart-story-top.jpg[/img]
I have aspergers and even had insular paranoid personality (which Seung-Hui Cho had) part of my life.
I don't recall ever thinking of plans to shoot anyone though.
I think there's more to it than that, such as glorifying guns in this country, crappy parenting, and trivializing life and death with religion and war.
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