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Ending Gun Violence Requires Commitment, Not All of it Voluntary

meowbius Wrote: Jan 24, 2013 5:10 AM
GB61: actually, the diagnosis in the USSR was provided by the Politbureau wholesale to disarm dissent. Psychiatry followed the party line (need I remind that there was no independent expertise since EVERYTHING was government-ruled: medicine, education, science. Genetics was an "imperialist who re" and banning it greatly improved agriculture, I think.) Brezhnev famously proclaimed that since the USSR and Communist party were for peace, anyone who oposed party line is dangerously insane. I hope we don't end up with the single party rule.

The good news is: Obama and the Senate Democrats have no intention of passing more idiotic gun legislation in response to the Newtown massacre. The bad news is that they also have no intention of passing any legislation about the mentally ill, which would actually do something to reduce these mass shootings.

Instead, the Democrats will jawbone about "assault weapons" and other meaningless gun laws for the sole purpose of scaring soccer moms into hating the National Rifle Association. Expect to hear a lot about Republicans preferring "the gun lobby" to "children." (Which is evidently not at all like...

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