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Topic: Gallup: Americans Want Mental Health Laws, Police, Not Banning Guns |
Gallup: Americans Want Mental Health Laws, Police, Not Banning Guns
Breitbart Big Government, by William Bigelow
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Posted By:JoniTx, 12/20/2012 10:50:47 AM
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| Despite the attempts by the Left to use the massacre in Newtown, Connecticut to forward their anti-gun agenda, Americans feel that there are other avenues they would rather explore to protect to innocent children, according to a new Gallup Poll. In order of preference, the poll shows that 53% of Americans would favor an increased police presence at schools, 50% wanted to increase government spending on mental health screening and treatment, 47% thought that gun violence on TV, in movies and in video games should be decreased, and 42% thought the sale of assault and semi-automatic guns should be banned.
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
suziesuburbanite, 12/20/2012 11:10:17 AM (No. 9076130)
Why not all of the above? Cmon - we already have gun control with machine guns, silencers, etc. Lets not imitate the libs with abortion and believe that every step leads to a steep slope.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
lydwho, 12/20/2012 11:12:34 AM (No. 9076135)
I want Obma´s rich Hollywood friends quit making violent movies, his rich friends in the entertainment business quit with the violent video games and most of all his dirty mouthed friends quit the racist, ugly rap music which are all influancing our youth!!!!
Art
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
OdinsAcolyte, 12/20/2012 11:25:45 AM (No. 9076155)
Every law robs the People of freedom. Every single one. No. No and no. STOP IT. Stop Congress. Stop the President. Stop the Attorneys. STOP.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
bmw50, 12/20/2012 11:42:46 AM (No. 9076183)
But don´t you see that mental health laws would be judgmental and intollerant.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
norcalvet, 12/20/2012 11:59:18 AM (No. 9076205)
Got an e-mail yesterday from Frontsight that made a LOT of sense. The founder Ignacious Piazzo has said for years that overmedicating our kids for whatever "ailments" they may have, weather they really need them or not, leads to kids that are legally drugged out of their minds. When the drugs stop being effective, they increase the dose or move to something stronger. The evidence is out there...but you never see this particular theory out there.-
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
neanderthal, 12/20/2012 12:05:14 PM (No. 9076212)
Wrong! I want state nut houses and I want all those crazy people locked up. We´ll always have them, but that´s no reason why we should have to live with them.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
Java D, 12/20/2012 12:54:44 PM (No. 9076285)
Gun control doesn´t address maniac control, Conn. shooter should have been forcibly committed to a mental institution long ago.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
ishouldknowbetter, 12/20/2012 1:21:03 PM (No. 9076320)
If anyone really is interested in saving lives, ban texting or talking on a cell phone while driving. That´s not a popular statement to many, but it would save more lives than banning the new public enemy called an assault rifle.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
coyote, 12/20/2012 1:21:03 PM (No. 9076321)
Mental health laws? C´mon, psychology is the softest of sciences. The actions and thoughts of a person can be interpreted this way and that. Such laws could be extensively used for political purposes.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
chumley, 12/20/2012 1:22:19 PM (No. 9076322)
Who cares what some percentage of subjects want or think I should be allowed to have? Who cares if I can use it for hunting? Who cares if anyone thinks I need it? The mere fact that they are considering infringing on my enumerated constitutional right means I DO need it. Buy one if you want. Dont if you want. Just quit deciding whether or not I become a slave.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
kens, 12/20/2012 1:58:49 PM (No. 9076367)
No. I don´t want mental health laws. I want the crazies rounded up and put away. Just call me an old Soviet but the ACLU needs to be cowed to shut up and butt out. We will not be the victims of people who have no business being ´mainstreamed´ with polite society.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
rabbit, 12/20/2012 2:17:29 PM (No. 9076403)
#11, be prepared to eat your words when it is your child, or your grandchild, that you are wanting ´rounded up´. Most people with a mental health diagnosis are quiet and law-abiding the majority of the time, but some have occasional symptoms which call for inpatient treatment.
Are you prepared to pay for the care and treatment of about 12% of the population for the rest of their lives? No? At least that many have a mental health diagnosis. While we are at it, why don´t we simply round up all the gang members or those who glorify violence in places like Chicago and cover 100% of their costs for the rest of their lives? Why single out the mentally ill for this ´treatment´?
The most frightening line in this article, to me, was seeing what a high percentage of Republicans do not want to see improved mental health screening and treatment.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
lavalette, 12/20/2012 3:29:18 PM (No. 9076511)
Americans also want handouts. That means they get Democrats, and everything that comes with Democrats. Abortion, Same Sex "Marriage," soft on crime policies, ever increasing taxes, refusal to protect American citizens from kidnapping by Mexico or Iran, etc.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
rocco49, 12/20/2012 7:13:43 PM (No. 9076787)
Since most of the nutjobs and crazies voted for Obama again, shouldnt the Democraps and their lap dog academia and rump swab media be responsible for paying for their mental health screening, medication, and incarceration? Lets start with Joe Bite Me, who donated a whopping annual $100 to charity. Thats my kind of leader! So many liberal hypocrites...too many to count! Phony liars!
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