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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I am a teacher.  I do not own a gun and I have no intention of ever owning a gun; however, I am NOT going to strike over "the NRA" and wanting to "bring the NRA to its knees".  I don't think the NRA is the real problem.  I think that our poor mental health care policies are the problem.  I also think the problem is some people not doing their jobs and some family members not being proactive in getting a love one mental health help.

If you want to do something then I suggest that rather than depriving children of their right to an education you should caucus your local, state and federal legislatures for changes in mental health care policy and programs.  There is no way that I am supporting the nonsense of a strike.[/quote]

You might want to read the NYTimes study on this subject that was published Friday. It's been studied in depth. The number of killings corresponds almost perfectly to the number of guns in our nation. Mental health problems are similar in other countries that don't have all these guns. They also don't have all the killings or mass shooters at schools.
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Correct, they have mass stabbings instead. Crazy is crazy, you can’t change that[/quote]

Yes, you can't change crazy, but you can reduce the number of dead bodies. Which seems like a worthy goal to me. Do you believe that there would have been 20 dead first-graders if Adam Lanza had had a knife instead? I don't.[/quote]

Timothy McVeigh killed 15 children with no gun at all. [/quote]

That's some tap dancing.

When the Oklahoma federal building was bombed, I don't remember hearing anybody say, "Oh well, what can you do? It's a mental health issue. Can't stop the crazy!"

Nobody, but nobody, is saying that gun regulations will stop all killing. Or even all gun violence. But it will reduce gun violence. And that's what we're talking about here -- gun violence. If you want to talk about bombings, start your own thread.

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Why are you so insistent on addressing the symptom but not the root problem?  [/quote]

Why are you so insistent on talking about anything except guns?

This thread is about guns. Let's talk about guns.[/quote]

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