Wanting to kill innocent people regardless of what faith they purport to follow is a mental health issue. How many of these white shooters say that "God told them to do it"?
If you kill people en masse you are mental. It doesnt matter what your motive. If you believe a magic wizard in the sky wants you to kill people then you are just as mental as moron with an AR15.
You're confusing legitimate mental health issues, with indoctrination & brainwashing, which do not sit on the mental health spectrum. Obviously something has to be wrong with the mind, to be able to want to carry out, or even rationalise these actions, but simply labelling it as a mental health problem, is IMO, not addressing or acknowledging the root cause.
There is a clear difference between people with psychosis, who imagine a sky daddy might be instructing them & killers that were indoctrinated into believing that their actions were righteous & would be rewarded, as they were committing these acts for the greater good of the sect during their holy war.
White men with guns are far more dangerous and have killed more innocent people than the Taliban, Al Queda & ISIS put together, so perhaps lefties and righties should look to eradicate white men with guns?
Are you including warmongerers like Blair in that? Without his & Bush's idiotic schemes, the current terrorism epidemic wouldn't exist.
And let's not tactically digress, I was simply clearing up your, albeit, rhetorical question/criticism of Trump.
All of the reasons the NRA types give for having guns are absurd, but the reason they come up with the arguments is exactly for what you say above.
Its so ingrained into them they abandon all reason when it comes to owning them.
How do you reason with the unreasonable? The Fact is, the statistics say there is a very real chance that yourself, or your family could be involved in a serious/violent crime, at any given moment. The NRA, feed off of that & use it to their advantage to exacerbate propaganda, BUT, their core beliefs holds a lot of truth, despite being exaggerated.
If here in the UK someone suggested we introduce a law to allow everyone to own semi automatic rifles and handguns and we wouldn't bother even needing much vetting and everyone would think they were nuts. Yet that is what is demanded as being the norm.
They will never change that mindset so these shootings will always happen.
Absolutely. Unfortunately for America, the problem is too far gone, for it to ever be resolved. I mean, wrap your head around the idea that after a mass shooting, gun & ammo sales actually increase!
Trump is very selective on who he condemns.
All those who vilify Trump for his reactions to these attrocities, should remember that Siddiq Khan recieved the same criticism, in the follow up of the London attacks, however most of those who are now chomping at the bit to lambast Trump, were the same people who were quick to dismiss any criticism about Khan.
Hypocrisy, thy name is left wing :thumbsup: