Alan: Albeit unconsciously, many American conservatives fear -- and with good reason -- that linking mental illness to gun control will impugn their own sanity.
It should.
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"Gun Cartoons and Gun Violence Bibliography"
"Once again, a mass killing has triggered calls for doing something to keep guns away from the mentally ill. And, once again, the realities of the situation convey how difficult a task that is. There are, after all, plenty of young, male, alienated loners -- the now-standard description of mass shooters -- but very few of them become killers....There is another way of thinking about this. Instead of focusing on making it harder for the mentally ill to get guns, maybe we should be making it harder to get guns, period. Something to consider before the next mass shooting." Joe Nocera in The New York Times.
Predictably, the fearful, the xenophobic and the paranoid "Come right in!"
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"Gun Cartoons and Gun Violence Bibliography"
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"Conservatives Scare More Easily Than Liberals"
Scaredy Cat
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