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RFK Jr is so poorly informed. And so dangerous. Like your scary neighbor who is always spouting conspiracy theories.
My ex-husband is one of those. 😵💫 If I wasn't on zoloft, I would not be able to co-parent with him. No human could naturally possess the amount of self control needed to be civil with this sadistic narcissist.
Selective Seratonin Re-uptake Inhibitors are not “trans” drugs. Men with prostate cancer get anti-androgen therapy. Don’t see them shooting up churches. Hmm, perhaps a meta-analysis of gun violence trends in countries with fewer per capita guns would be a good place to start. Willful idiots.
That was one of my first thoughts. They are twisting themselves into a pretzel to use this tragedy to further their agenda and spread misinformation and sow hate. It is disgraceful.
this putrid little Moloch worshipper would kill every infant in a maternity ward with a belt sander if he could and we're meant to think he gives a shit about a mass shooting?
Sure, why not.
OMFG! A maga “associate” started blaming Trans people and the drugs they take as the reason for mass shootings. It sounded so….Q anon and stupid. Now I know where she got that stupid idea
Let's blame mental health. Now let's blame the drugs that treat mental health.
The fvcking idiot.
Do other countries’ people take SSRIs? Of course they do. So our focus should be on what is different between us and them. Easy access to guns. Poor mental health care. A society that has become next to impossible for young people to thrive. Bullying. How about we start with those.
Credo che i suoi familiari si vergognino di lui e della sua follia
They have warned us about him.
At some point, we will literally have “studied” every single possible cause of mass shootings—except firearms. The drop in our country’s collective intelligence is beyond appalling. I’m talking about the millions who continue to vote republican by way of their inability to think critically
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Fuck you, go after the guns. -Minnesota
Fuck this guy, and everyone who put this guy in this position of power over our health when they voted for trump or sat on their ass instead of voting.
Fuck all the way off, Bobby.
Fox News morning morons, giving a voice to this nonsense from the Idiot RFK Jr.
Who is extremely drunk or high on national TV.
I say this in the kindest terms, Brainworm. FUCK YOU
Too bad Sirhan Sirhan… … …
Or just #repeal2A.
Agree. 2A failed, or we wouldn't be living through this present situation. And it was bastardized by the #NRA to sell guns to … well … anyone and everyone. But, sadly, not to actual patriots. And not with any 'regulation' or training. 2A's only purpose now is to murder our schoolchildren.
Why does his face look like that? We are at the point that political alignment can be determined on sight.
Dried out gas station hot dog face.
That face snorkles up DonTheCon’s butt
Eww. You aren't wrong.
Is he going to ask Tom Cruise to lead it?
Hahaha....fits. one wackadoodle to another....
I don't think a creep whose sex addiction and multiple infidelities drove his second wife to suicide should be bad-mouthing antidepressants.
I'm still convinced that Larry David finally wrapped "Curb Your Enthusiasm" so he wouldn't have to keep hiring Cheryl Hines.
Don't blame him. She must be as sociopathic as Roadkill Rob is.
You must be referring to Brain Worm Bobby!🐛
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The Prozac defense raises its ugly head time.com/archive/6726...
IT'S THE GUNS
IT'S BIDEN'S FAULT
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This is the definition of a crackpot.
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Someone dare to explain the social ecological model to him? Typical approach to health in the US; everything is due solely to biological factors. 🙄
What about the glorification of violence within American culture? That also includes encouraging violent thoughts, words and behavior. There are proactive and productive ways of expressing anger and fear.
RFK Jr. is clearly not a well man. @aoc.bsky.social @warren.senate.gov
With all my heart, fuck that guy.
Amen.
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Is that HIS hope and prayer?
This guy is as dangerous as they come! Americans are supposed to listen to a man, with no medical or scientific background, who sounds like he drank DRANO his whole life,and swims in sewage filled streams! This pitiful,unhinged,mentally deranged, human being should be locked in a padded room!
However CDC gun studies are strictly forbidden.
He means trans people. There going to lie and say HRT makes us violent to try and ban or restrict it for us
Is there any indication this individual was on medication? And what is the common denominator here? It goes bang when the trigger is pulled!
Might be the guns….
As someone who has been on those meds since the 90s, I have never felt violent towards anybody. I might laugh my arse off if a few Republicans fell down a flight of stairs, but I wouldn't push them. This man is a dangerous cancer on America.
Exactly
What a dumb dumb dumb dumb cunt
When does this nightmare end? How did these clowns ever get in charge of the circus? 🤦🏻♂️
We allowed them to have a platform and speak unchallenged. The only time tolerance has gone too far has been in letting conservatives get a word in, when they should have been shamed into obscurity for their stupidity and naked malice.
Tolerance can be viewed as a social contract: I tolerate you, you tolerate me. We can avoid each other, but that's still tolerance. Those who preach intolerance have violated that social contract.
Absolutely, and I think it’s time we make them pay the piper. If they don’t wanna be part of society then we should grand them their request and drive them to the fringes, or better yet, into the god damn ocean.
Studies means the heroine & cocaine user will probably be testing the drugs on himself
YOU CAN'T DO STUDIES BECAUSE YOU'RE NOT A DOCTOR OR A SCIENTIST, YOU FCKN MORON!!
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I think the brain worm is getting high off Bob's brain matter. 🐛
What brain natter?
Not sure there's any left but if there is, it's toxic.
jesusmotherfuckingchrist this brain worm can't die fast enough. responsible for killing countless people so far, that seems pretty violent to me
JFC!🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬
Mental health problem will be cured with plenty of sunshine and a good diet, definitely no artificial food colouring.
But everybody gets free sessions at the tanning salon so they can have healthy skin like his!
What an utter moron!
OMG!
No studies needed to see the correlation of a 14 yr heroin addict with the last name of Kennedy being a spoiler candidate to earn his appointment of choice by Trump.
You have GOT to be kidding me.
He might want to check in with those jailed. The antipsychotic, Seroquel, is a favorite to…….subdue violent behaviors!
"Studies"
In other words, he's going to waste time and money on everything BUT the factors most likely contributing to gun violence in the US. More performative nonsense from RFK Jr. and this administration.
I refuse to listen to the dysfunctional garbage disposal as is RFK.
This man is a monster. He's going to be responsible for enormous numbers of deaths and terrible illnesses. He's a eugenicist.
This is basically what they did when HIV was first discoverer. Turn their heads and close their eyes because it was deemed a “queer disease”.
Ronald "Raygun" Reagan was horrible, so horrible in fact, that he refused even to utter the acronym, "AIDS." We may never know just how many sufferers died before something was accomplished by researchers including Dr. Anthony Fauci, first Director of the Office of AIDS Research.
Anthony Fauci was, in the end, an AIDS activist and true hero. He and Larry Kramer became dear friends despite everything that was happening under Reagan.
My older brother died of AIDS in 1990. I know what you're saying.
I'm so sorry for your loss 💙
My condolences to you. 😔
So sorry. It was a terrible time. 😢
So no mention of his video flashing the white power sign and using racial slurs. Or idolizing other mass shooters.
One of the many things we’re going to need in a future beyond the current nightmare is a mechanism to extract plainly insane people from positions of influence and power.
That mechanism is the electorate.
Every single fucking thing in the universe is political now... at least from the US perspective. There is no reality.
I have special hatred for RFK As a former addict, fuck anyone that pulls the ladder up behind them. That’s the antithesis to what the recovery community is about Also as someone with major depression, my life would be unlivable without antidepressants. So double fuck you Bobby, you Fallout ghoul
I hear you loud and clear. After my trauma, I developed treatment resistant depression. The only thing I didn't try was shock therapy. I did every SSRI/SNRI, magnetic brain pulses, IV ketamine (worked but wore off). Finally, I found novel drug, Auvelity. Finally, making me feel 'normal' again. 👍🏼👍🏼
Thank you for sharing, this is why scientific research and trials are so important. Glad you’ve found some relief.
Kinda nice to know his family feels the same way about him.
😱 PLEASE get this guy out of here NOW!!!
Who? Do we even have a Senate or Congress with the guts to impeach this whack job? Nope. Medical doctors voted to confirm this lunacy.
But we ain't doing sh!t about the guns. Every other country has mental illness issues too, but they don't have mass shootings...
We don’t even have that many shootings And we have 10 times less murders Netherlands compared to the USA average of 6.8/10000
0.69/10000 the Netherlands
Other countries also have universal healthcare that includes mental health treatment, so since they won’t regulate guns, maybe they could try making healthcare accessible and affordable. They could also work on reducing poverty since it also correlates to higher violent crime. Worth a try right?!
No argument.
We need Medicare for all so people can get the medical care they need and not have worry about costs. While we're at it, make education free for everyone.
Switzerland tried for profit healthcare for a very short time. They abandoned it quickly and absolutely.
Exactly.
Some do, but not like us.
Nah, it's guns. Other countries have mental illness, homelessness, radicalisation, etc. But they don't have guns killing people.
Mental illness happens to all humans. Other countries have universal healthcare, which is why you don't see the mentally ill homeless or self medicating w/illegal drugs/alcohol. Also, firearms are more closely monitored, & certain types are not available to the public. Hence, fewer mass shootings.
Uhhhh, Canada has a HUGE,HUGE problem with the mentally ill being homeless and self medicating, but rarely can they get a hold of a weapon of mass destruction! Knife attacks seem to be escalating though. Ford is underfunding Healthcare so it can take literally years to get mental health help plus
the majority of homeless suffering have no idea where to go for help or transportation cause they r treated like shit!! Boots on the ground is what we need, helping them seek help!!
Maybe that's true in Canada but not the US.
The link in your post is broken.
Canada has a homeless crisis & universal health care, also in crisis, but we rarely have mass shootings. Never by a homeless person
The subject is mental illness, which in the US is a cause of homelessness. My point was to show that universal healthcare addresses mental illness better than a system where health insurance is for profit. Firearms are easy to get in the US.
I understand that but it seems you correlated mental illness with mass killing AND homelessness. It's unfair to infer homelessness - already highly stigmatized - could be mass murders.
I didn't infer that at all. I was responding to someone who made that claim.
Sorry, I misread.
We have the Federal NICS reporting system, which includes records for mental illness, but the system is only as good as the info it contains. One has to have been committed to a mental institution or declared incompetent by a court. Not everyone who has mental illness gets reported for either.
It's the similar here. Mental health services in conservative provinces are sorely inadequate due to cuts & management despite federal funding. Mental illness is so broadly defined though, vast majority of cases dont violently offend others.
the mentally ill are far more likely to be the victims of abuse than the perpetrators. people fear & hate those different than themselves, or those they dont understand.
The funny thing is how many ppl are diagnosed as mentaly ill when other people who might qualify more for the title are the perpetrators. Hospitals won't let you know that, though. Most of those doctors are doped up,themselves! Abuse of medication:not good.Regardless of effectiveness or side effect.
What proof do you offer for this claim? Articles, links?
Yes!
I misread NICS as NCIS. Lol. #Dyslexicsoftheworld...UNTIE!!!!
That's funny. I have discalculia, so I understand completely. I've gotten more addresses, phone numbers, and birthdays mixed up than you can imagine! You made my day. Thank you.
You're welcome. My wife, however, deserves the credit. She initially came up with that. Lol. I've always thought dyscalculia sounded like the name of a vampire in the mold of Dracula. 😅😅😅
Strong evidence that the shooting was a "copycat" and the shooters heroes were past shooters. Guns! Guns!
They also have fewer firearms.
Depends on who "they" is, but overall, gun control in Europe is much stricter.
We have universal healthcare in the UK but homelessness and self medication are high. We just don't have the easy or legal access to guns. You (as a nation) know what's needed but don't want to do it.
My friends who have traveled the UK tell me your homeless population is very small per capita compared to that of the US. Plus, our population is much larger. As for firearms, yes, most of us know what needs to be done, but Trump & MAGA don't care who dies as long as they have their guns & ammo.
Exactly.
OMG this 😭🤬🤬🤬🤬
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Bingo!!! Says the Canadian girl.
And we also ain't doing shit about mental illness
The GOP wants more people to have assault weapons and to be off their meds.
SAY IT LOUD ENOUGH FOR RFK TO HEAR IT OVER THOSE WORMS - IT’S THE GUNS!!!!!!!!!!!
Guns make it easier, but why did this happen less decades ago when access to guns was easier? There is some sort of social or psychiatric issue here as well
"decades ago when access to guns was easier" 😂😂😂
What is funny about this? Access to guns was much easier for school children in the past. In some rural areas having an unlocked gun in your truck in the school parking lot was not unusual in many places where now this would be a felony Students even could bring duns to school, in some cases
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I do truly believe that the introduction of an additional 300 million guns to our society in the last 30 years has impacted this in a huge way.
I'm not sure where that stat comes from, or if it is accurate, but I know the percentage of households with a gun has actually gone down vpc.org/studies/owne...
Access wasn’t easier years ago and there was no such thing as assault weaponry available to the general public. This is about #Greed&Money
In some places you could bring guns to school, and there were less safe storage laws, how was access not easier? And I'm talking about prior to the assault weapons ban
It was before mass killings were normalized. NRA & big $$ has done alot to drive that narrative, too.
To drive which narrative?
Assault weapons used to be banned in the US, & while that law was in effect, gun violence went DOWN. We also didn't have the rabid worship of gun culture like today's GOP.
I didn't mean access to guns prevents shootings, only that these shootings are a newer phenomenon, and that cannot be explained by access to guns, something else happened Prior to the assault weapons ban there were nowhere near as many mass shootings as there were after it's expiration
Almost all mass shooters were male. U.S. mass shootings by shooter's gender 2025| Statista share.google/2G8goTBz62f9...
This is true, is there a reason you posted it as a reply to me? it does not seem that related to my post
You were speculating about something changing in the culture, causing these mass shootings. I think you're right. I'm not 100% sure exactly what it is? However, the fact that it's almost all men or boys who do this, suggests to me that it might be the way we socialize male children.
In almost all land based vertebrates males are the more aggressive sex, so I think some of this may just be that biologically, males have a greater tendency to try to resolve problems via physical force. Also, the tendency of shooters to be male is not new, but the frequency of shootings is...
so it does not seem that shooters being male tells us what changed to cause shootings to be so common
Well... let's have a look at something else. "Most individuals who perpetrated mass shootings had a prior criminal record (64.5%) and a history of violence (62.8%), including domestic violence (27.9%). And 28.5% had a military background." nij.ojp.gov/topics/artic...
Mass shooters' races are fairly similar to the racial composition of the country as a whole. Mass shootings by shooter’s race U.S. 2025| Statista share.google/CnK9EPPU2M0O...
Oh for fucks sake! I am at a loss as to why this is being allowed to continue
Well at least the Smack Bandit didn't suggest that more thoughts and prayers were the solution.
TRANSLATION: "We're throwing all kinds of crap at the wall to obfuscate the obvious fact that our gun laws are insufficient and wildly outdated... As an added bonus, this ties into my whole 'medicine is bad' worldview."
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Bull-fucking-shit!
Look everywhere but the guns. I hate these people.
SSRIs causing murderous thoughts🤯Come on😡 I’ve been on an SSRI for years and the only time I wished someone was dead was, well you know who🍊💩 and I have never consider murdering him myself. So I call BS on murderous ideology.
You need to resign, Junior. youtu.be/5BNj-BneTNI
What's he on?
Bear parasites.
Heroin for starters
RFK Jr gives heroin a bad name
FFS, anything but adresing the real issues.
Bro if they touched my ssri im gonna fucking lose it. They keep my ptsd stable and not violent.
RFK thinks you'd be better being sent to a "wellness camp" instead.
yup, i hate this administration so much. why TF did we trust brainworms mcgee with this shit?
Brainworm=maggots
1. Anti-intellectualism is as American as apple pie. 2. Because liberals suck so much at oppositional politics that they let Trump win a second time.
Trump did. I think Trump wants revenge on all of us for not voting for him in 2020. So he's on board with killing people.
A camp where we'd be forced into grueling farm labor, while deprived of crucial medications. "Arbeit Mach Frei." Sure, meds are a crutch. If you fall over without a crutch, *you use the damn crutch.* A lot of us need this class of meds to function.
IDIOT!
And he will give the result next Monday…
oh! we're doing batsh*t takes? try mine: whatever creature y'all are "praying" to after each one of these mass-murders is now addicted to "thoughts and prayers" so keeps making them happen to get more no of course not funny btw 10x murders inflicted on innocents in Ukraine and Gaza yesterday too
Really? His answer is to attack the drugs that are probably stopping more of these from happening? Someone fire this maniac into the sun.
Hey RFK Jr, you fuckwad, it ain't drugs, it's guns. GUNS ARE THE FUCKING PROBLEM!
If they take psychiatric drugs away from people that need them, they will see violence unlike never before. I’m a care giver for my sister who happens to be on psychiatric drugs to keep her from hurting herself and others.
Psych RN here, you are completely right. If we take people off their psych meds, they should then be transported to live at the White House, better yet vile RFK jr’s house and let him see how people function without them. Some should attend Congress also. Psychiatrists warned us, we didn’t listen.
I fear the solution offered will be locking everyone with a mental illness up in some sort of detainment facility. 🤦🏽♀️
RFK has already mentioned the "wellness camps" he thinks should replace psychiatric medicine.
I know. I've been watching all of that very closely
Over my dead body.
Same. My son.
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Blue cities….any connection?
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Your fear is well-grounded, too. Trump's many comments about not have asylums like we used to are very telling, indeed.
Trump has repeatedly remarked about how bad it is that we don't institutionalize people like we used to for mental health conditions that can now often be successfully managed with proper medications. Science has delivered proof that chemically correcting imbalances greatly improves brain function.
And RFK's family believes in labotomies and members of that family have openly discussed his cruel nature.
RFK Jr's comment hints that Trump's Admin is considering reasons for more camps, similar to Alligator Alcatraz, but for people with MH issues. DOGE likely opened access to health records just for such screening. P2025 is finding creative ways to remove & lock-up the noncompliant & high maintenance.
That's what I'm seeing happening too.
They are probably using AI and the data they stole to dig for any reason to fire who they want to fire and dig up any medical information. AI and that data collection is the tool they will use against us all, one way or the other.
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Privatized detainment owned and operated by an LLC having made the appropriate offerings to the Most High in his eyrie on Pennsylvania Ave
Exactly.
Jr. thinks picking vegetables on an organic farm cures mental illness. So yeah, they’ll lock people up but when the people get worse, it wouldn’t be surprising if they look for a more final solution. I’m a psych nurse, too.
Agree!
I think you're exactly right.
I hope I'm not.
RFK will probably want to send them to work on “Health Farms”
Oh. I thought you want them to go to work farms. He said "wellness retreats" which will probably offer work fames and medical experimentation of the psychiatric variety.
Which is what the Kennedy family did to one of their own
Exactly. Rose Marie, right?
No. They will replace immigrant ag workers. Because fresh air.
I thought that would be their plan for food stamp recipients.
Funny enuf to be true
First step to killing them in gas chambers
While people with autism live in "experimental" hell.
It’s so disheartening that we’ve seen this playbook used before, but so many don’t seem to recognize it. The attacks on American education systems have truly crippled our nation.
Making ‘Murica Healthy again is accomplished with population control similar to those speaking the wrong languages - “Acceptable” first step is confinement, then expulsion - And when it becomes too inconvenient, a more final solution is likely in the offing - It’s only the voices in my head
Not just your head. Mine, for both my disabled kids. Trying to figure out how to flee the country over here… 😱
and cancer patients are SOL 🤬🤡
We all are.
Yes
No. Autism will be reclassified as a mental illness. Once they can't make their bullshit causes stick, theyll throw up their hands and call it mental illness brought on by bad parents, low moral character, and eventually an imbalance of the four humours. Only then will they be rounded up and gassed.
RGK jr is a eugenics proponent. That is becoming more and more clear. Whatever part of his brain that worm ate, it robbed him of any sense of decency, humanity and respect for living. His father would be outraged at how stupid and cruel he is.
And thats why he fits in perfectly in this Administration. They are all like that. Inhumane, ignorant, completely lacking of empathy and complete hypocrites.
When will they be snuffed? They've pissed off enough people so . . . They must have heavy security detail to avoid it. You couldn't pay me enough to protect them. What rubbish.
What a load of bullshit. The problem is easy access to guns.
💯‼️ WE don't need RFK,Jr.to kill off more people than he already will with his CDC moves. He needs to be removed from office.
My schizophrenic nephew, who is in prison, would end up killing someone again.
⬆️ THIS ⬆️
Not all people with mental illness and/or on SSRIs are prone to violence against others. Let's not perpetuate that overgeneralization. The issue here is gun violence & ease of access to guns, not mental health. And yes, we absolutely need to extend & strengthen our mental health system in the US.
Thank you for your unwavering support towards Ukraine 🇺🇦 🙏
Great. Now it's part of the plan.
Are the vaccines inside the guns? Because it’s the guns. The guns!!!
Ghoul. An actual ghoul.
Idiot he is.
Too bad the worm didn't finish off his brain. Or wait, maybe it did...
It starved
SSRIs are a response to violence, ya dope.
It's the guns & the gun cult, for COL!
I would even argue that it’s the gun cult more than the guns because lots of other countries have as many guns/capita without the violence that the US has I grew up with guns in the house (dad was a hunter, bears in the neighbourhood) I knew how to shoot but guns we’re a tool, not a sex symbol
My dad was trained as a sniper. He teached me to handle guns, security measures & shoot straight when I was 11 yo. He was never in love with a gun, didn't hunt, but liked target shooting. My rifle (registered) is one of his. No gun cult.
My dad used to take us target shooting all the time. If you’re ever attacked by a “rabid Pepsi can”, I’m your girl 🤣 but I couldn’t shoot anything living Until I had kids, I had my grandfather’s gun for target practice I gave it back to my dad (who had it altered for safe displaying at his cottage)*
I never shot a animal either. Target shooting only. My dad tested my accuracy using tiny children aspirine bottles, Pepsi cans would have been too big as targets. 😅
I used to shoot the hole out of the letters Pp in the label The first time my husband saw me do it, he told me he would have to be much nicer to me in the future 🤣 Now, I’m probably too blind to hit the can🙄
My mom didn't appreciate her daughter being taught firearm handling, prob. not girlie enough. So, one day, I shot the stem of a flower, to give the flower to my mom. 😂
*I’m not sure what he had done but it will never fire again unless it’s taken to a gunsmith and the parts are put back into it. It’s all been saved but not stored with the guns. They’re not even in the same part of the province
He must have removed the "culasse". (sorry, don't know English word for it). A gun can't fire without it & my dad always stored those apart from rifles.
I’m pretty sure that’s the mechanism around the firing pin. He had to do a few things to be able to display them legally. They’re more for sentimental value than anything else. The last time I fired my grandfather’s gun, I told my dad I wouldn’t use it again. It felt “wobbly and unsafe” to me
The firing pin is part of the "culasse". My rifle gets oiled once in a while, with trigger lock on. Mostly a sentimental value to keep it.
no other country has even close to the number of guns/capita that the US has. Just looked it up on Wikipedia. US leads the way with 120 guns/100 people, the Falkland Islands are next at 62 guns/100 people. The rate only goes down from there. Guns don't kill people, people WITH guns kill people.
Lots of Canadians have guns (not the same levels as the US) but blaming it solely on the guns without addressing the gun culture would also not solve the problem Then the “gun worshippers” would be able to make the argument that the guns aren’t the problem Both need to be addressed equally
not arguing with you on that, the gun culture/mistaken belief that the 2nd Amendment gives almost anyone access to almost any weapon they choose has led to this insane proliferation of deadly weapons in the hands of people who have no conceivable need of them.
The 2nd Amendment was never meant for civilians to own a sh*tload of assault weapons. It was adopted when guns were 1 shot & in case of an attack from the British colony to the North (Canada), since US - then a young republic - had no army. There was thus a need for a regulated militia to be called.
Well in my foggy memory that the great hunters used bow and arrow for getting their food supply and didn’t have Costco when unsuccessful. These days great white hunters need cannons and still use Costco for their needs. So do I have that picture right?
“If you need more than one bullet to hunt, then you’re not a very good hunter”- my dad As for me, I never shot anything more dangerous than a Pepsi can … but I knew how to use a gun because we had bears … in fact, there was one in the yard last week Now we have car alarms which will scare bears off
Can’t agree with you more. I have many hunter friends but most use a bow. They very into hunter training and 2 were snipers in the Canadian military. So all this gun BS are just a bunch of wanna be’s pretending to be a somebody
So a good friend of mine grew up dirt poor in Ontario and had a single shot 22. Now if he did not shoot something they didn’t eat. I wonder how many great white hunters could say the same? And somehow an AR-15 would just leave rabbit fur to eat. Fuck heads
Countries with high antidepressant use include Canada, Iceland, Portugal, and the United Kingdom. They don't seem to have mass shooting problems.
Only America has mass shooting problems because America DOES have a mental illness. The mental illness is called, "Ammosexuality" in which we somehow believe that all our problems will be solved by simply killing things.
Ammosexuality 😂😂😂😂😂😂👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
It's a great term. I don't know where I first heard it, but it just sums it up so perfectly.
It really does! Like the dilly Christmas cards with the semi automatics! Only in America.
I own thousands of rounds of ammo and several guns, not the first one of which has ever been fired in anger. That's true of almost every firearms owner in the country. More firearms than people in this country, and you want to hold us all responsible for the few anomalous mentally-ill individuals?
It is your choice whether to take my comment as a personal attack or as a general observation of national character.
Can they study what bullets do to bodies?
Might be? Great, sure we have 25 years to do these studies, while people lose family members. What about the book MurderLand, where a theory about Lead, and other environmental smelters that are still dumping into the air? Yeah, I’m sure you won’t look into that, one trick grift pony.
Exactly! And they’re going to reintroduce asbestos
Dumb as dirt, but dirt is at least helpful.
Perhaps he would recommend heroin and cocaine instead? He must be impeached.
That shameful, quivering mass of shit jello must be removed from office 😡😡😡
So, you want to claim mental health issues cause mass shootings and the answer is to take away mental health meds? This is almost as stupid more guns is the answer to gun violence.
Oh, medication is witchcraft. The answer to mental health struggles is to go to rfkjrs labor farms. And praying, obviously. 🤮
Well, yeah. Gotta replace all that farm labor we're losing in Miller's Hate Sweep.
Brilliant idea, Mr. Branworms. Take away SSRI drugs and see how much more violence erupts.
RFK and Trump are having a contest to see who can be more orange.
Maybe you should look at the guns
A full relapse into heroin addiction for this monster would benefit all of America.
Try Ivermectin? Dr Death and the morning 3 stooges Those 4 if they held hands couldn’t light a 5w bulb
Imagine being a parent who just lost their child to gun violence and reading this. I’d be tempted to go find rfk myself and teach him a lesson.
That sounds reasonable imo
Why is it we don’t hear about a child of repukes? There has to be some of them massacred too? I don’t recall ever hearing. They are ok w/ it? Are they paid off? What…?
Their pain and dissent is immediately quashed by the monied folks who support getting richer from guns. I guarantee they’ve spoken out.
Makes me wonder what SSRI's Bobby is on. That brain worm has led to depression and all kinds of erratic behavior resulting in the deaths of millions
Just arrest this madman and throw him in a rubber room already.
It’s the guns
Useless as ever.
America worships guns. So they'll never blame violence on their "god".
Ya know, maybe psychiatric drugs do affect the levels of violence. But it’s the guns that are killing the kids. What are you doing about that?
They prevent violence
Nope, people with untreated mental health issues will always be less violent. Apparently.
If they have an effect, the effect is likely less violence. But who am I to use rationality when RFK Jr is the one talking?
Or maybe the person wasn’t taking them correctly or maybe they were the wrong drugs and weren’t working properly or whatever. But yes, it’s the guns that are killing the kids. They’re too available.
The dude cut the head off of a dead whale im not taking his advice on Drugs or mental health.
And played with a dead bear cub.
Says the lawyer.
Oookkkkaaaayyyy, how drunk or high is he!?! Hint, don't do your shit before going on live TV. He isn't coherent at all.
No wonder he pals around with Kegseth.
Kegseth! Took me a sec but AWESOME!
Says the guy who threw frogs in blenders for his pleasure.
How about we remove guns and see what happens first.
You might want to check out the homicide rates in countries that did that like the UK and Australia first !
Can’t be higher than ours.
Yep, do that. The result, zero mass shootings. Yep, zero! How do you like those statistics? Or would you prefer to see the US rankings on homicides maybe? I’ll give them to you anyway, 700% higher homicide rate in the US than the UK and 1,000% higher than Australia. Less guns = less death. Simple
Very quickly checked (with Germany, which has one of the strictest laws on weapons).
In Switzerland almost 50% of the population own weapons! But no mass shootings and homicides using weapons are rare! In 2023, there were a total of 53 homicides, 25 of which took place in the home. So it is not a matter of laws only, it is the confidence in a justice system.
28 guns per 100 inhabitants in Switzerland vs 120 in the US. Carrying weapons is strictly regulated and (semi-) automatic weapons are prohibited. That's quite a difference. And yeah that's Switzerland, a very rich country with high wages, an extensive social security.
45 citizen per 100 own weapons (one or more - official statistics 2023). Neither semi- nor the automatic weapons are prohibited. For the latter you need an “exception“ license. The difference is what you correctly point out: social security, education better & justice systems 1/2
2/2 If someone has a gun and wants to use it, the absence of a carry license won’t stop that person. But might reduce potential use in affect situations.
That's what I mean when I say ‘And yeah, Switzerland’. The Swiss respect the law and the penalties are a deterrent, even for the smallest offences. Littering will get you a fine of CHF 300 ($375).
FYI www.swissinfo.ch/eng/business... Automatic guns are prohibited and since 2019 semi-automatic weapons with a large-capacity magazine are subject to an exceptional authorisation and only permitted for collections or sport shooting.
The difference to the US is not the law or ownership. It is this: Since Kindergarten we teach Kids to deescalate situations and to look for solution which is acceptable to everyone. This is the famous Swiss Consent!
I don’t need these infos: I am Swiss, own guns and go regularly shooting 😊 It is why I know that much what is written about weapons in Switzerland is mostly wrong!
He knows but blocks you when you point it out !
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Thank you for sharing this 🙏. The gun safety research project that was conducted at my trauma center was defunded by Trump’s administration just before I retired. Statistics like these will never change if we keep going backwards!
Facts. Don't. Matter with these freaks.
They’ll simply make up their own
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Do you enjoy making a fool of yourself on the Internet?
In what way ?
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Bet they are less than ours.
Way less and contrary to a lot of gunhumpers claims lower knife crime as well!
You know that homicide can include vehicular homicide and other unintentional deaths (and those, committed by means other than guns). Also, you would need to corrolate the reduction in guns in those other countries with the level of (intentional) homicide. This graph does not mean much on its own.
Yep and the UK homicide rate also includes deaths by gross negligence manslaughter which artificially raises the UK rate when comparing the UK's low rates to the USA's high rate.
Show it.
"The homicide rate in Australia in 2021 was 0.86 per 100,000, which was lower than New Zealand's 4.0 per 100,000 and 5.21 per 100,000 in the United Kingdom. In comparison to North America in 2021, the United States and Canada had homicide rates of 8.8 and 6.2 per 100,000, respectively."
Approximately 30k Americans die every year of gun violence. That doesn't include other homicides. "There were 570 victims of homicide (in England & Wales) in year ending March 2024, 15 fewer (a 3% decrease) than the previous year." Took less than a minute to find. www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopula...
That 30k figure is actually an undercount. The numbers for gun deaths (murder, manslaughter and suicide) were 45k (or higher) the last 3-4 years, minimum (I didn't keep going back to see the numbers because it's too depressing). USA! USA! USA! We're #1!!!
You fucking burnt potato chip, it's guns, it's guns, ITS GUNS!
Captain Brainworms was a heroin addict. He has no medical or scientific degree, yet he's allowed to run the HHS? We live in a poorly written dystopian novel hell realm.
Is a heroin addict - just might not be using currently. He thinks heroin is ok though....
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Everytime I see those pics I rhink about my shoe collection and feel no shame whtsoever.
What the hell are they gonna do w/all those freaking guns? Ridiculous
They said they were going to protect us all from an authoritarian govornment.
They lied.
Of course they did!
Guns. Study the guns.
Careful, once this regime decides to take away guns, there will be zero ability to remove them. There are certainly issues with how accessible they are, but they'll use something like this to disarm any potential threats to their power.
I don't see gunners doing much except loving dear leader.
You may be right.
Our military has a budget of almost $1T a year. What are you going to do with a few rifles? 😂
Maybe nothing... but would rather have them than not have them.
You missed the point being you can't do a damn thing about a drone strike on you if you had all the rifles in the world.
Ok
I mean I get it. A sense of being able to protect yourself. But we are way past that point now. Unfortunately.
I hope I'm wrong about everything I think I see coming. OK, I'm taking my tinfoil hat off for the rest of the day. I'll get back to conspiracying tomorrow.
Hope I'm wrong too.
Rifles aren't going to be much use against drones.
That may be true, but they are probably better than throwing rocks.
People with pistols and rifles are not going to be able to topple the American government. Even local cops have fucking tanks now.
Perhaps not, but they can make it way more costly and difficult than without.
They have to get out of the tank at some point
This. It's never been about citizens rising up to topple a tyrannical government. That was cover for $$$ from gun sales and making people angry and fearful.
And passive to endlessly increasing gun violence.
Yeah, I don’t know how we go up against the cops in their mine-resistant ambush protected (MRAP) tactical vehicle that the federal government loaned to our local PD.
Maybe, but if organized... and armed, people with pistols and rifles can keep them (somewhat) in check. Maybe it's already a lost cause, but I like the idea of being able to protect my family and property and not have to rely on a corrupt govt (local, state or federal).
BIG "if"
Tell me exactly how you are keeping them "somewhat in check," because this is a delusional fantasy.
I've never been called delusional before, but maybe it is a fantasy... I guess we'll see. I believe they would be more afraid of angering an armed citizenry than an unarmed one. Have a nice day.
The armed citizenry is on the side of the tyrannical government, it always has
Until you tell them they aren't allowed to be armed.
Not what happened with disarmament campaigns around the world, which translated into a decrease in violence. Maybe it would be different in the US, the tyrannical government can kill millions in west Asia and no revolt, but the red line might be not being able to shoot at things & people anymore 🤷🏼♀️
I'm not going to say I'm informed enough about how this worked in other parts of the world, but I have to believe it's more complicated than just - remove guns and violence decreases... again, I don't know. Just sharing an opinion that I (usually) hope is wrong.
There already IS no way to remove them. This is a dictatorship. You don't remove a dictatorship without some kind of all out war.
And I’m sure the availability of guns has nothing to do with it.
How about launching an investigation on the guns that are available to people who shouldn't be getting them?
Which should only be people of well regulated militias.
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Yeah, THANKS fucking Repub SCOTUS
in other words the least amount of action possible.
This is a possibility www.bmj.com/content/358/...
That’s only a risk during the first few weeks of trying new medication. Once people have found the right drug and adjusted to them, the risks fall back to nearly zero.
It is easy to dismiss RFK. The issue should be about guns in the possession of the mentally ill and the possibly treatment that may contribute to violence. I am from the UK btw
SSRIs are NOT the problem. Restricting them, which is exactly what he wants to do, WILL kill countless people. The USA needs gun control + a guns buy-back program to reduce their number in circulation. In parallel, they need better mental health care and to strengthen their social safety net.
Absolutely. The attack on RFK should be just that. It would be a better game plan to engage him with your points as he has raised the issue of SSRIs but no doubt the media will not pose those questions.
RFK has no qualifications for the the position he has. He should not be there. PERIOD.
Proves that RFK is a moron and a quack - he doesn’t know what research has already been done. He needs to go!!!
Wow no words. Launching a study? Has always been code for delay by we will look into it. Then crickets 🦗
“Launching a study” = “You’ll have my health care plan in two weeks”. 🦗🦗🦗
we are definitely seeing the impact of heroin on an already low IQ brain happening in real time
He’s referring to the same drugs which exist in every other country which don’t have mass shootings.
All we need is masses of people bumped off their meds in a country overrun with guns - that will end well
While I don't wish death on anyone, there are many in government today whose obituaries I would read with delight.
And completely non-religious but a-freaking-men to that!
I'M OFF MY MEDS AND I'VE GOT A BACKPACK FULL OF AMMO!!! ...Coming soon to a country you share...
What a horrific person he is.
It just CAN’T be the underlying reason WHY people are taking SSRIs. Amongst other things…
FFS.
this is so fucking stupid to watch my brain cells are jumping off the bridge in the process
I cannot understand how people that get paid so much money in society are ok with their entire healthcare system being flushed down the toilet for rat bastard science.
I DON'T KNOW! I mean if anything else, I'd think ppl would want the best health care FOR THEIR KIDS? but it's just crickets o.O
People with that much money have private insurance and plenty of access. They will never lose that access. You are an impediment and a waste of resources to them.
Just like tRump, RFK Joker finds new ways to show how effing stupid and craven he is. Such creativity!
This is unadulterated bullshit
Word of the Day: SCIENTASTER (19th century) - someone who claims to have scientific knowledge but lacks real understanding. C/o @qi.com
I just can't. I just want this madness to end. They are truly trying to kill us off. This fight is getting dangerous. Resist ✊️
The issue is that people have access to guns that should not. If you're a responsible gun owner, you should want to keep guns out of the hands of those with mental illness. As drivers, we must take driving school classes, pass tests, renew our license, and carry insurance.
So should gun owners.
Owning a gun should require classes, testing, licensing, and insuring the gun owner. It shouldn't be as easy as it is to purchase a gun. Nobody is coming after 2nd amendment rights. With rights, there comes responsibilities.
These checks and balances are needed to keep guns out of the hands of those who are unfit to own them.
Yearly registration fees on weapons would generate tons of money.
Whats needed is sensible gun legislation,not a penalty for responsible gun ownership! There are ways if you can get all 50 states on board! That right there is the problem!
What penalties are you referring to exactly?
I love this idea!
100%! Use corporate America against itself where necessary
It’s easier to buy and own a gun than to get SSRIs.
They always say the Dems want to take all the guns. I’ve never heard that from Dems. Less guns. Guns only for killing people. AK 47, AR 15, etc. Did you know they have to take pieces of dead kids & have DNA done to tell which pieces go to each families? All that’s left is pieces. How horrid is that?
How do we establish someone is responsible enough to own a gun? We have a HUGE problem here with gun being stolen from UNLOCKED cars. People just leave them in their cars overnight!
The challenge w that is the fact that many of these individuals don't have MH diagnoses bc they refuse to obtain MH treatment. So, many/most of them have undiagnosed MH dis that are never treated, such as the wide range of personality disorders (but no actual dx) 👍
Testing/licensing/Registration could be designed to identify signs of mental health issues.
Possibly, however, that would require a MH licensure of some kind. I love the idea of having a licensed LPC at every gun shop, though! 🤭
Strange how the Trump administration was silent on the CDC shooting, among the other recent shootings, guess those shooters didn’t fit their narrative.
and the media lets them. it is insane that Trump superfan and assassin Vance Boelter has already been forgot about. if conservatives were targeted i bet we'd definitely still be hearing about it.
CDC got shot up so he fired the Director who was actually qualified to do the job and refused to bow to political pressure. I see a pattern here.
So, it's all drug induced, says the guy with no medical background, who fired medical experts so they wouldn't disagree with him? Good to know. Many of us were under the impression that making gun violence normalized combined with hate, racism, mental instability, low self-esteem and IQ were
the underlying possibilities. Add in those supporting christian nationalism, and elected officials supporting gun manufacturers and lobbyists for favors. But apparently, the orange regime thinks you're the "expert"??? Idiots!!!!
Oh wow, what about studies for aggression related to anabolic steroid use? Blast some test, rfk, you freaking hypocrite. We can start here: scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=e...
Sertraline (zoloft) keeps my husband from curling up in a ball on the bed and pounding it. Is this asshole trying to ban it?
Typical. You tell people you are doing some studies, hoping they are so dumb, they will assume it is a solution. For those who claim to be pro life: why do you love your guns more than the children?
Can someone please put this man back in the oven to finish frying his brain, thank you.
Moment of 🤣. Thank you.
He was a Trumper!!
Surprise
We left a bunch of knives laying around the floor of the pre-school & now there are a bunch of children with cuts, so naturally I'm calling on the government to ban children.
What's this "we" shit. You're not doing squat for this country. Stop lying you SOS
SOS, as in Shit On a Shingle? 😀
couldn't remember earlier (TBI) here, what I meant...Sack of Shit was what I meant
that works or shit on a stick,
Now do the investigation into why most of the shooters are white boys. Most serial killers are also white men. The atrocities of our history, white greedy hate filled murderous men. Is it genetics or upbringing that makes them think they have a right to take the life and liberty of others? 🤔
Nah, I’m sure it’s 100% coincidental, right?
Riiighttt~ 😉
Well, if you're going to play in to RFK's fondness for eugenics, maybe SSRI's shouldn't be given to white boys or men, because something in their brains reacts badly. Run that experiment for a few years instead of telling Black people their race means they don't need vaccines.
“Run that experiment for a few years instead of telling Black people their race means they don't need vaccines.” I said no such thing and my comment had nothing to do with eugenics. It was a simple observation of past events.
What are you saying? And how do you come to this nonsense?
Sorry if you took my comment as anything other than a facetious description of the apparent attitude of RFK and his enablers.
Great job #BillCassidy
I can't stand this ex heroin addict who eats roadkill. I totally get why his wife commited suicide.
Are you fu••ing kidding me? What’s next , eliminating meds for depression, anxiety and mental illness? There is a mental health crisis in this country. Restricting psych meds is going to make it worse!
Blaming anti depressants not knowing if that has anything to do with this shooter is so irresponsible
This guy has some severe Demons,no wonder cousin Caroline Kennedy cautioned us about us~dangerous he is. Shared his torture w/animals, as Mary Trump said the same thing about Trump. Also Kristi Noem shooting the puppy. They’re scary,dangerous people, let’s not observe, but participate 🇺🇸.
Is he speaking as a [former] user?
Who says he’s a “former” user? Imo he’s still using.
Can't be, because he is obviously drunk or high on national TV.
The kennedy’s need to come collect their crazy
Oh, the Kennedys don't want nonna what this moron has to offer.
Fire this asshole RFK,Jr. He needs to go.
He is too unqualified. That’s why Felon47 appointed him.
I’m so sorry you have to cover this vile stuff, Aaron
Now you are into mass killing of U.S. citizens be causing large numbers of certain groups not to get vaccinated YOU IN NO WANT WAY ARE COMPETENT OR HAVE ANY SIGN OF ANY ABILITY TO BE IN CHARGE OF PUBLIC HEALTH
WTF CONTRIBUTED TO YOUR STUPIDITY YOUR OWN DRUG SOAKED BRAIN?
IT'S THE GUNS, DON'T WASTE OUR $$$$
😎🪴🌵 #RFKJr, it's the guns you stupid phucking piece of feces
Way too early for my brain to see this absurdity but it’s seen. Wrong again on that SSRI stuff. Me: lower drug prices easy if you bash and ban all drugs I love being a Dr. but hate the attacks
just spitballing here, maybe it’s the guns?
RFK Jr. sounds like a refrigerator compressor going bad. He looks like a burned gingerbread man. It is absurd to take this guy seriously!!!
He's so close to the point but he's willfully ignoring it
Maybe that study can also reveal why MAGAs hate all the same people the shooter did - RFK Jr has loaded up on too many psychiatric drugs, it seems to me.
He treated heroin as a psych drug for 15 years, said it made his test scores better I don't want to hear about the supposed dangers of SSRI's from him.
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When in doubt, blame every problem on “big pharma” and let the morons who don’t know science get a bit angrier.
He’s a lunatic!
The gymnastics to once again try and show that guns are not the problem are Olympic level.
The occasional massacre of schoolchildren is a small price to pay for Freedumb!👹
What a damned nitwit.
I think it may have a teeny weeny bit to do with freely available guns.
Guns are killing
A just like that, a study that doesn’t exist will appear in a memo next week.
How do we get rid of this half-brain idiot?
Someone needs to track down another brain worm and slip it in his ear while he is zonked out on Ketamine.
To the TV NETWORKS: Please keep this idiot, who knows NOTHING about science or health care, off the air. KENNEDY IS A HAZARD TO OUR HEALTH
Well, that was Fox….
At least BK questioned the “homicide” side effect and now it is on the record. I am no SSRIologist but I don’t recall homicidal ideation as a side effect of SSRIs. Such a side effect would surely have counted them out of such common use by now.
There is a grain of truth here It is difficult to quantify - wide variation in cohort studies - but SSRIs cause an increase in violent acts in a small subset of 15-24s. One theory is that suicidal/homicidal ideation is already present and SSRI gives depressed person enough energy to do something
This effect is smaller for SSRIs than for opioids, benzodiazepines or amphetamines - and is tiny compared to the real issue of high capacity semi-automatic guns - but there is a black box warning on SSRIs to monitor for suicidal behavior in under 25s. Of course, SSRIs save far more than they harm.
Thanks. Assumed this was the case, small effect probably not even statistically relevant. Goes to mental health and access to guns. But as you say, it’s only America that has this problem….
… Pointless having any gun debate really. Americans have chosen this as a key feature of their society and have to live with its consequences. Price you pay for that freedom. Thankfully our society (Australia) has taken the correct fork in the road when confronted with our largest mass shooting.
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Yet we now have no vaccines. Trying to kill us. And he has no medical background
He's a threat to our very existence
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There is NO warning of homicidal intentions. Yes, people who are depressed and take SSRIs can experience increased depression and suicidal thoughts. But that is why doctors start people at a small dose and ask at monthly checkup if the person has suicidal thoughts.
Fuck this guy.
Sure you are.
What an absolutely ridiculous approach. No doubt they will use this to harm marginalized people.
Yep. Anywhere where they can pry open another avenue to destroy this country and her people.
Maybe this is exactly what Americans deserve. Voters and every institution allowed these maniacs to get power. We sit here and continue to allow it. The consequences of decades of suffering and death will be the penance for our apathy and cowardice.
That is one way of looking at it.
Seriously, dude, it’s the guns.
How about guns?
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Again, he's nuts.
there are mentally unstable people who have never taken any drugs at all.
Or shot anyone…
RFK, Jr. is not one of those mentally unstable people.
Is that a joke?
(He has done a lot of drugs)
Drugs and a brain worm. He's like the Tin Man from Oz who lacks a functioning brain.
Studies run by who, exactly? NIH staff has been DOGE’ed.
"We're rounding up some voodoo practioners, some witch doctors and shamans to lead this group...."
Still unbelievable thatbhe is in charge of the health of the nation
Isn't there already a bunch if research into what causes gun violence? Like guns, and rejected people having ridiculously easy access to guns...
Don't other countries use SSRI's? Why don't they have these issues 🙄
To be fair, if you told me U.S. pharmaceuticals were just selling dirty cocaine cut with flour as antidepressants because they know when they get caught they'll have to pay 1/100th of what they gained and walk away free, I would believe you. I mean, it IS the guns. I'm just saying, fuck capitalism.
What scientist in their right mind would choose to participate in these so-called "studies"?
They can launch studies until the cows come home and it still boils down to the same conclusion: GUNS! Guns are too easy to get and they keep allowing them to carry them nearly everywhere! Studies. Give it a rest and do swim in a polluted river! Sheesh.
We’re very concerned about gun violence…that is why we’re immediately launching an investigation into the proper watering levels of Bermuda grass in Southern states.
Excellent....
What does that HAVE ANYTHING to do with this tragedy?!
Yeah because taking away antidepressants & psych meds would sure help those with mental health issues.
The man is a deranged lunatic. Why on earth are the American people putting up with this shit?
What do you expect from someone whose own brain was addled by drug taking. He is a person that should not be anywhere near to positions in Society that affect the members of the Society. He should be banned from associating with the political classes just the lower echelons of Society.
FFS. Let’s put this worm fodder out to pasture once and for all.
Psychiatric drugs are definitively part of the stew that contributes to violence. Though it’s mostly from the *lack of* mental heath treatment (including medication) that is the contributor.
What about the guns?
What's contributing to the violence is your rancid rhetoric. Yes your fascist Christian nationalist propaganda is driving even normal people fucking crazy
Fire the bastard!!! All of them! The most incompetent.