Congress bans the CDC from doing study on gun violence

[KUSA]

Yes, and target practice is especially interesting when the little targets run and hide and try to escape from the school.

That was so deliciously dark I just climaxed alittle.
I usually only do that when I'm polishing my M60.

You make me wonder if you are a 12 year old troll.

[Reforged]

That was so deliciously dark I just climaxed alittle.
I usually only do that when I'm polishing my M60.

You make me wonder if you are a 12 year old troll.

That deeply concerns me. 
I hope your opinion of me improves in the near future. Would a ball of string help?

[Edwardo Piet]

Haha, I guess maybe he just doesn't get that adults can be intelligent and mature but still have a childish sense of humour.

I guess he never went to Uni.

I didn't either, but my brother did - it rubs off on me ^______^

[KUSA]

Would a ball of string help?

If it was crammed tight in your mouth.

[Edwardo Piet]

Hmmm... not funny

[Violet]

So you think all these mass shooters are sane? What the hell?

I'm saying that while they may be emotionally unstable, reckless, attention-seeking, hateful, spiteful, angry, and trying to make a point:

They're not insane. Losing your ability to REASON is quite a different animal from the above selection of reasons that people go on mass shooting sprees.

The closes you'll get with the insane doing such a thing... necessarily takes delusion, mania, and a near-miraculous ability to navigate a world that is piecemeal around them.

That isn't to say that part of the reason someone may go on a shooting spree can't be delusion, or mania, or only a marginal tidbit of insanity...

But, UNLESS in the person's roughly immediate vicinity: it certainly cannot be the forefront facet of the psychological conditions necessary for a mass-shooting (of which there are NO necessary psychological conditions whatsoever). A completely emotionally stable, cautious and calculating, not-out-for anything, kind, caring person without a single shred of insanity for their actions filled with good humor and a dash of mercy....

Can also be a mass shooter (though, that's also usually paired with religious fervor (a strong learned belief is not delusional, unless one has had ample evidence to the contrary and does not recognize that in the face of their belief (belief in the face of incredible levels of countering evidence from sources that a person otherwise trusts to be true))).

[Violet]

Would a ball of string help?

If it was crammed tight in your mouth.

Seems like a pretty violent tendency to me...

Do you happen to be mentally ill?

[KUSA]

If it was crammed tight in your mouth.

Seems like a pretty violent tendency to me...

Do you happen to be mentally ill?

No I'm not mentally ill nor was I saying anything violent. I just thought it was funny thinking about him looking like this.

[Ravenshire]

It would seem to be the purview of ATF of the FBI, but if no one else, sure the CDC has the capability to collect and assess data through their connections with the health industry, mainly front-line hospitals, I should think.

Since the CDC is made up of scientists, y'know, people who have a history in science and studies and research, I think this might be the kind of thing they'll be able to do better.  ATF and FBI aren't exactly scientific departments, y'know.

No, they're not scientific departments, but you'll be hard pressed to find better data analysis departments than what the alphabet agencies have.

[brewer]

List of mass shootings from 1982 to 2012. Not sure if it's comprehensive.

http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2012...map?page=2

Most have a history of mental illness.

So, you don't have to have a mental illness to be a shooter and having mental illness does not make you a shooter. All I'm saying is that there is a connection.