JemyM
Okay, now roll sanity.
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Liza Long, a writer based in Boise, says it’s easy to talk about guns. But it’s time to talk about mental illness.
The "mental illness" is a statistical absolute meaning that mere chance cause it to happen. It's not that we do not have the science. We do. We know the profile well and we have done for a long time. We know the psychology behind terrorism, we know the psychology behind rampage killers. We know. We also know that it's as frequent in every nation.
Here's the problem:
Not even if you transform the states to Soviet or North Korea you will be able to monitor every single individual at the level required to deal with these individuals.
Gun control is a traffic sign compared to the level of state control necessary to deal with it as you pretty much have to psych-profile every citizen regularly.
It's as unlikely as it is to stop rapes or robbery.
The idea that we can avoid it is naive to the extreme and pretty childish too.
Sure, I wouldn't mind psych-profiling every child like we test near sightedness or color-blindness. It may actually help a lot. But it's ironical that people scream for the right to bear arms, yet want a system against "mental illness" that makes 1984 seem like Liberty City.
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