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Four Marines killed in a rampage shooting, coincidentally occurring a few weeks after another one

Discussion in 'Sports and News' started by Dick Whitman, Jul 16, 2015.

  1. Mr. Sunshine

    Mr. Sunshine Well-Known Member

    How many people need to be slaughtered before you stop bowing at the altar of political correctness?
     
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  2. SpeedTchr

    SpeedTchr Well-Known Member

    Starman, you seem to spend so much time every day listening to the right-wing screechosphere, I can't imagine how you work for a living. Just sayin'.
     
  3. JC

    JC Well-Known Member

    Ryan Braun?
     
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  4. cjericho

    cjericho Well-Known Member

    He will lead the revolution against the corporatists and right-wing lunatics, if he doesn't have a heart attack first.
     
  5. outofplace

    outofplace Well-Known Member

    No, that was speculation supported by a tainted sample. :)

    But yeah, one bit of speculation turned out to be true, so let's just assume all speculation is true.
     
  6. Dick Whitman

    Dick Whitman Well-Known Member

  7. YankeeFan

    YankeeFan Well-Known Member

    If we're going to change gun laws, can we start with prohibiting folks who are diagnosed with depression and/or bipolar disorder from purchasing them?

    If you're on meds for some form of mental illness and/or are suicidal, maybe there should be an obligation for the prescribing physician/mental health expert to add your name to a database of folks who can't purchase a firearm.

    As the F.B.I. sent more investigators into this city Monday to explore dozens of possible leads, a picture took shape of a deeply troubled young man who struggled with mental illness and drug abuse at the same time he found himself alienated from United States policies in the Arab world...
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    Mr. Abdulazeez had suffered for years from depression and possibly from bipolar disorder, the family representative said, adding that he had abused alcohol and possibly prescription painkillers and had gained and lost jobs.
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    In a few pages of rambling notes being pored over by the F.B.I., Mr. Abdulazeez wrote about suicide and martyrdom as long ago as 2013...
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    Mr. Abdulazeez received a diagnosis of mental illness when he was in his early teens. He was treated with medication in high school and college, but “he wasn’t always good about taking them,” the family representative said. Law enforcement officials confirmed that they too had learned that he had serious psychological problems.

    He turned to drugs and alcohol, and family members tried to get him into a rehab program.
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    He went to work in 2013 at a nuclear power plant near Cleveland, but was fired within days because he failed a drug test...


    http://www.nytimes.com/2015/07/21/u...-martyrdom-official-says.html?smid=tw-nytimes
     
  8. YankeeFan

    YankeeFan Well-Known Member

  9. Dick Whitman

    Dick Whitman Well-Known Member

    No hunter or other kind of manly man would ever seek help for depression or other mental disorder.
     
  10. Vombatus

    Vombatus Well-Known Member

    Wrong. Very wrong.
     
  11. Dick Whitman

    Dick Whitman Well-Known Member

    What's wrong about it? Let's say they made a law that you couldn't buy beer or stream music if you had a diagnosed mental illness. Should I ever have issues, I sure would think twice about seeking help for them.
     
  12. Ace

    Ace Well-Known Member

    I'm good with that. Maybe also add that a nuclear power plant may also not be your best work environment.
     
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