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Mass shooting in a school? Need God. Mass shooting in a church?....
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RE: Mass shooting in a school? Need God. Mass shooting in a church?....
November 12, 2017 at 1:34 pm
You haven't heard the stories I've heard, then. Like mentally ill people dying in a jail cell, because the cops keeping them there don't care.
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November 12, 2017 at 1:36 pm
(November 12, 2017 at 1:34 pm)Chad32 Wrote: You haven't heard the stories I've heard, then. Like mentally ill people dying in a jail cell, because the cops keeping them there don't care.

Wow. Do you have a link to any of these stories?
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#33
RE: Mass shooting in a school? Need God. Mass shooting in a church?....
November 12, 2017 at 1:43 pm
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#34
RE: Mass shooting in a school? Need God. Mass shooting in a church?....
November 12, 2017 at 1:50 pm
I see.

Seems like this is a problem with our prison system (particularly isolation) and dealing with criminals in prison who have mental illness. i dont see how this is testimony that us as a society shun mentally ill people or look down on them for getting help. I don't think any of these shooters were in prison prior to their attack to where better treatment of them while there would have prevented their actions.
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November 12, 2017 at 1:56 pm
The GOP put the mentally ill out on the streets because it cost them tax dollars. Source of the problem.
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November 12, 2017 at 2:23 pm
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November 12, 2017 at 2:28 pm
 The granting of a pardon is an imputation of guilt, and the acceptance a confession of it. 




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November 12, 2017 at 2:33 pm
Quote:And it's cheaper than prison.

Exactly what the prison-inudstrial complex does not want to hear, V.
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#39
RE: Mass shooting in a school? Need God. Mass shooting in a church?....
November 12, 2017 at 3:41 pm
(November 12, 2017 at 12:18 pm)Minimalist Wrote:
(November 11, 2017 at 9:09 pm)Martian Mermaid Wrote: Do people actually think that putting God back in the classroom will stop the shootings?

Yes.  Really stupid people.

That's so stupid. No amount of prayers will stop the crazy people from being crazy, and no amount of prayers will keep them away from the building full of kids.
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November 12, 2017 at 3:46 pm
(November 12, 2017 at 1:23 pm)Minimalist Wrote:
Quote:I'm not sure where you got the stuff you mentioned in the second paragraph,

I really can't see where this rote, sheepish, "prayer" that you think is so important does any good at all.  It seems very muslim to me.

Ok.... I'm not advancing for any such thing and it wasn't the point of my post at all.
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