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She self-identified as Iranian, so maybe Shiite. Then again, the shooting spree suggests Sunni. And no smiles, so prob Sunni.

It's not only about their type of faith, although it's possible that as a second gemeration born in the States, she fell pray to radicalized groups.

Most Iranians that I met -those who decided to leave their country- made a point of claiming that they are Persians, not Arabs. They also liked Europeans a lot more than they liked other Middle Easterners.
Some even described Islam as being the oppressive ideology of Arab conquerors.
 
Adam Lanza could afford mental health treatment, but his family kept it from him. https://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/22/...roblems-completely-untreated-report-says.html

Dylann Roof had untreated psychiatric issues, but didn't acknowledge them. https://www.postandcourier.com/chur...cle_404a01bc-e959-11e6-ad24-0f32fef2c5bb.html

Nikolas Cruz got plenty of medical treatment for his mental health issues. https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-new...-agency-investigate-nikolas-cruz-2016-n849221

So... none of them were getting adequate mental health care... which is my exact point. That's the issue. If they didn't have to beg parents, or scrape together money, there is a great chance those murders would have never happened.

Thanks for proving that for me.
 
So... none of them were getting adequate mental health care... which is my exact point. That's the issue. If they didn't have to beg parents, or scrape together money, there is a great chance those murders would have never happened.

Thanks for proving that for me.

Can I borrow your crystal ball? I wanna know what the upcoming winning lottery numbers are.
 
CNN, MSNBC have all reported that it was a liberal Muslim lesbian with a gun fetish.

You're surprised the media painted her that way? They specialize in fear mongering.
She obviously had Disassociative Identity Disorder with a huge helping of Paranoid Schizophrenia.


According to Reuters, Nasim posted on Instagram that she has “no physical and psychological diseases.”

How do we provide mental health care to everyone who needs it?

Universal health care.

Cool. Let's tax the shit out of guns to be able to provide healthcare for those in need.

Agreed. We do it with cigarettes to combat the costs to our health care system.

The lack of adequate mental health care, and wealth inequity/poverty are the issues.

You want to ignore the issues, and scapegoat inanimate objects, that's your prerogative. It's pretty similar to someone blaming the ills of society of gays, jews, or muslims. It's overly-emotional rhetoric based on a lack of facts and a lack of a solid world view.

It's the exact same sort of mentality. Scapegoating is scapegoating. You can blame ozzy records, video games, guns, or muslims.

It's all ignorant.

Well said.

Do you seriously believe that everyone in this country can afford regular therapy visits, inpatient or outpatient mental health care treatment, and comprehensive mental health care?

If so, I've got a bridge to sell you.

Adequate mental health care is the ONLY thing that will stop people who are mentally ill from hurting themselves and others.

It won't work every single time, but it will work at rates greater than anything else you are proposing. But you don't want to push for universal health care, or adequate mental health care... you'd rather scapegoat.

A socialist after my own heart :D
True dat. Although adequate therapy is a necessary part of healing, pills just don't cut it by themselves, especially when they come with disclaimers about suicidal and 'unusual' behaviours.
Obviously she suffered from comorbid mental health issues and treating the symptoms with medications makes Big Pharma happy but doesn't solve the root cause of her issues.
 
Why does the Left automatically assume that anyone who wonders about the association between her Muslim faith and this crime is a racist or an Islamophobe?

How many Muslims who are also gun-nuts have you ever come across? Most of them are Western Christians or Atheists.

It's more likely that in this case it's about mental illness, but it's also natural to think about the other possibility.
 
So... none of them were getting adequate mental health care... which is my exact point. That's the issue. If they didn't have to beg parents, or scrape together money, there is a great chance those murders would have never happened.

Thanks for proving that for me.
Are you kidding? Nikolas Cruz had the best mental health care and was pronounced mentally fit. You say it wasn't adequate, without any evidence other than his rampage. Fuck that noise.
 
Why does the Left automatically assume that anyone who wonders about the association between her Muslim faith and this crime is a racist or an Islamophobe?

How many Muslims who are also gun-nuts have you ever come across? Most of them are Western Christians or Atheists.

It's more likely that in this case it's about mental illness, but it's also natural to think about the other possibility.
A lot of gun owners have a perceived enemy that they'll gladly gun down given adequate provocation. I can point out several examples on this board. Does that make them mentally ill?
 
A lot of gun owners have a perceived enemy that they'll gladly gun down given adequate provocation. I can point out several examples on this board. Does that make them mentally ill?
I'm on the same wavelength as you are on this one.

When I refer to mental illness in this context it's more figuratively speaking.
Not only mental illness in the clinical sense (psychoses and so on) -
but also the disgrunted personalities who lack empathy and blame others and end up taking it on others when they encounter hardship.

I suspect that Nasim belonged to the first category, and maybe treatment would have made a difference. But can you detect all of them and send them to a doctor in time?

But Ted Cruz belonged to the second one -hard to detect or fix-.
And I'm just as critical as you are of the NRA and the gun nuts who are trying to scapegoat the Health System or whatever, instead of looking in the mirror.
 
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A lot of gun owners have a perceived enemy that they'll gladly gun down given adequate provocation. I can point out several examples on this board. Does that make them mentally ill?

It's a lot harder to gun down perceived enemies with proper gun legislation. The prevalence of guns makes it a lot easier for any one with impulsive behaviour and a grudge to go on a shooting spree.
 
From Martin Luther King Jr.’s Assassination to the Charleston Massacre, the Reactionary Right Has Used Madness as an Excuse for Violence -- Fifty years later, we’re still hearing the same sorry excuses...

That article is about racist violence, but it's part of the same picture. The other part is the unregulated 'militia'. Put-em together and we see mental health as the excuse for not dealing with intolerance, over-arming, a culture of violence and fear and hate. It's only a few lone nuts. Not the fault of The System. Hey, let's medicate everybody!

But don't make it harder to shoot people. We can't have that. And be sure to blame somebody.
 
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From Martin Luther King Jr.’s Assassination to the Charleston Massacre, the Reactionary Right Has Used Madness as an Excuse for Violence -- Fifty years later, we’re still hearing the same sorry excuses...

That article is about racist violence, but it's part of the same picture. The other part is the unregulated 'militia'. Put-em together and we see mental health as the excuse for not dealing with intolerance, over-arming, a culture of violence and fear and hate. It's only a few lone nuts. Not the fault of The System. Hey, let's medicate everybody!

But don't make it harder to shoot people. We can't have that. And be sure to blame somebody.

There's no doubt that racism and bigotry are on the rise in America, but why are you bringing racism and bigotry into this?

Most mass shooters were white atheists who killed mostly WHITE people.
 
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True, she wasn't into anal, but she's dead now, so maybe the two of you have a future after all?
 
There's no doubt that racism and bigotry are on the rise in America, but why are you bringing racism and bigotry into this?
Because the madness excuse.

Most mass shooters were white atheists who killed mostly WHITE people.
You think she was an atheist? And hey -- here is WikiPedia on mass shootings in USA. Which on that list are atheists? How do you know?
 
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