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Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uYNLEPZwzoQ
Imagine if Americans were actually for gun regulations - oh wait, they are overwhelmingly in support of gun regulations to the tune of 90%. And what if they
didn't support the rhetoric and politics of the NRA - oh wait, the majority of Americans don't support the politics of the NRA to the tune of 90%.
I guess this is the day the senate republicans woke up.
No of course not. Senate Republicans as well as most elected Republicans support the 10% of Americans who will call for more mental institutions, blame
violent video games, terrorists from other countries, brown people, black people in Chicago for the gun violence and mass shootings
all the while they will support the gun club.
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Really though. He belongs in the R&R HOF , just for "American Pie" alone. He was the inspiration of the song "Killing Me Softly" as an added bonus. Come on R&R HOF. Give this dude his just reward.
And I'm not anti NRA or even anti gun.
It's just totally insensitive to the mourning process.
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You should put me on ignore, asshole!
If you want to be ignored... stop posting.
Otherwise you are inviting responses.
Press the ignore button - you 74 yr old boy molester!
Who has their fair share of suspensions.
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Now he gets that type of post if he follows one of mine.
Tough noogies if it bothers you.
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or Don Mclean singing about the day the music would die for a bunch of gun salesmen and supporters of mass murder in America?
Bottom line, for a practical solution, definitions are required. If you cannot clearly identify the topic at hand, your opinion must be discounted as a shrill call to "do something...anything!" which is a sure path to hand over your rights to others who will be happy to define things, and then tell you that you will have read the passed Bill before you can know what is in it.
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it has to be that you don't think I know or anyone else knows what an assault weapon is outside you and your cult. That's your argument.
The issues of gun violence have nothing to do with easy purchasing high-capacity weapons or guns in general. The argument is
the fallacy of composition and dichotomy. Surely, I don't know gun violence because you assert I don't know my gats from rifles
or military style weapons, and because you assert that and not because it's true.
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shooter, the TX church shooter, the 2018 CA shooter, the Manchester bomber, the Japanese dude who hilled 19 in Japan, the Nice terrorist, and the Waukesha murderer. Heavy weed use especially before the brain is fully formed can lead to psychosis. It's time to explore that link.
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To answer your question on a quick look-see, it appears to be a mixed bag - convoluted enough to create many loopholes in purchasing guns. Seems almost useless.
I always thought it odd that Marijuana is named specifically, along with "addicted to".
But to Cole's point, I do think there is a connection between drug use and psychosis, especially among people that start using early. Gun violence isn't the only societal ill that America excels at, I brought up drug overdoses and suspect there are others. There are likely overlaps. Causes are likely somewhere between a few and many, but weed use is most probably below availability of weapons. As per usual, people are looking for simple answers to complex problems.
there is no direct link anywhere that associates MJ use to violent behavior. It's murky at best because it can't be seen whether
MJ can promote violent behavior in some or that some who are prone to violent behavior are also likely to smoke MJ.
And even still there is no linkage anywhere to the two being connected. Lots of conjecture, but no specific scientific link.
There's tons of speculation from back in the 50s and 60's that MJ use is the cause of violent behavior and gun use but that stuff is all
crazy talk from the mind set of Reefer Madness. I suppose we're gonna see a lot of that type of argument with the Uvalde gunman -
anything to deflect from the fact he used guns to kill school kids and their teachers.
Cole's post is just Old White Man hogwash - drivel from yesteryear paranoia.
anecdotally which is probably more accurate than anything I read - I've never seen anyone who smoked MJ behave violently - in fact,
the opposite - Quite mellow.
"Heavy marijuana use in adolescence or early adulthood has been associated with a dismal set of life outcomes including poor school performance, higher dropout rates, increased welfare dependence, greater unemployment and lower life satisfaction."
Sounds like at least a partial recipe for a school shooter, no?
And I am a full advocate for legalization, but I'd prefer 25 over 18 or 21 as the age.
Link: https://www.apa.org/monitor/2015/11/marijuana-brain
It's hard to know if delinquents navigate to smoking MJ or MJ makes children delinquents. Cause and effect here are a little murky as to which is which.
Needs more research - Okay, I volunteer.
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Let's imagine - if he couldn't purchase weed, he wouldn't have purchased weapons. That right there makes perfect sense.
Let's imagine - if he couldn't buy guns because of gun regulations, he probably would have purchased more weed.
Yeah, exploring the connection that links smoking weed to purchasing guns is a great idea. Let's not look at how easy
it is to purchase guns because that can't possibly be a factor in people having guns.
I don't know, you figure it out.
events should be explored, but since that disrupts your gun narrative, you got all twisted up.
as the issue.
Well, I mean, guns are nowhere near the common issue of gun violence and death by bullets from a gun.
I mean it couldn't possibly be guns have anything to do with deaths by guns.
We shouldn't dilute the issue at hand, it's gotta be the weed these guys smoke or something like that.
Let's look at that. Ignore the gun.
problem.