Mental problems? No worries, here's a gun...

[Malcolm_hates_your_kids]

I do both Mal..

No you don't!

Just showing your ingnorance now Mal..

You're a complete liar!

Could you elucidate in regards to your claim

Why?

[Bobby]

33,000 people die every year in the USA from firearms -
countless more are injured & suffer lifelong trauma.
33,000 is 11 times the number of people killed on 9/11 yet
it doesn't get the same attention - go figure?

I would not want to live in America where almost every sicko, mental case
& wannabe Rambo has a gun & would shoot you for doing nothing.
America is finished as a civilised nation -
it's just a concrete jungle.

And as most worry warts do you have overstated the numbers lol


The First Estimate of 2017 Gun Deaths Is In
Excluding most suicides, at least 15,549 people were killed by guns in the United States in 2017, according to data collected by Gun Violence Archive (GVA), a nonprofit organization that tracks media and law enforcement reports of shootings.

It doesn't matter if it's suicide or murder.

33,000 people die every year in the USA from firearms.

[Black Orchid]

It doesn't matter if it's suicide or murder.

From the point of your argument it most certainly does.

[Bobby]

It doesn't matter if it's suicide or murder.

From the point of your argument it most certainly does.

Not in terms of firearms causing so much grief in society.

33,000 people per year is about 90 people per day or nearly 4 per hour -
about one person every 15 minutes dies from a gunshot in the USA.

[Neferti]

IF this is for real, the ACT Labor/Green Government is worth a point (only one, mind you). They have had to do something to keep all the Chardonnay drinkers and pot smokers happy.

Don't be fooled Nef, history has shown when a leftwing govt corrals the mentally disabled together under one roof, it can mean only one of 3 things
1. They will be gassed
2. It's a secret eugenics program to breed more ALP and greens voters
3. It's the new headquarters for Getup or the latest leftwing "think-tank"

LOL I did a Google and found this article from August 2016 ...

Dhulwa is the Ngunnawal word for honeysuckle, and Canberra's Indigenous elders are hoping its healing properties will be transferred to the new mental heath unit of the same name.

Construction will finish at the end of next month on the ACT's first secure mental health facility, after years of lobbying from magistrates, lawyers and mental health advocates.


The first residents are expected to move into the Dhulwa Mental Health Unit next year, with ACT Health Minister Simon Corbell describing the $40 million facility as the "missing link" between the ACT's criminal justice and health systems.

"For a long time we have been missing the capacity to accommodate people with serious mental health problems who have been engaged in the criminal justice system and we have had to accommodate people with serious mental health concerns in facilities that weren't really purpose-built to care for them," Mr Corbell said.

http://www.canberratimes.com.au/act-new ... quztp.html

Apparently it has been open and up and running since 22 November 2016.

After months of construction and years of planning, Dhulwa, the ACT’s new secure mental health facility at Symonston, was officially opened by Shane Rattenbury MLA, Minister for Mental Health on 22 November 2016.

http://health.act.gov.au/dhulwa-mental-health-unit

Undoubtedly it keeps at least 25 people out of the The Alexander Maconochie Centre (gaol).

[BigP]

No you don't!

Just showing your ingnorance now Mal..

You're a complete liar!

Could you elucidate in regards to your claim

Why?

Because peeps will treat your statement with the comtempt it deserves if you choose not to

[BigP]

33,000 people die every year in the USA from firearms -
countless more are injured & suffer lifelong trauma.
33,000 is 11 times the number of people killed on 9/11 yet
it doesn't get the same attention - go figure?

I would not want to live in America where almost every sicko, mental case
& wannabe Rambo has a gun & would shoot you for doing nothing.
America is finished as a civilised nation -
it's just a concrete jungle.

And as most worry warts do you have overstated the numbers lol


The First Estimate of 2017 Gun Deaths Is In
Excluding most suicides, at least 15,549 people were killed by guns in the United States in 2017, according to data collected by Gun Violence Archive (GVA), a nonprofit organization that tracks media and law enforcement reports of shootings.

It doesn't matter if it's suicide or murder.

33,000 people die every year in the USA from firearms.

Bobby do you really believe that if there were no fireamrs in the world people would stop killing themselves , there is no corelation between suicide and firearms , in respect to the total number of sucicides

[Black Orchid]

It doesn't matter if it's suicide or murder.

From the point of your argument it most certainly does.

Not in terms of firearms causing so much grief in society.

33,000 people per year is about 90 people per day or nearly 4 per hour -
about one person every 15 minutes dies from a gunshot in the USA.

Suicide rate in Australia 2016 - no guns - The suicide rate in Australia was 11.7 deaths per 100,000 people

Suicide rate in USA 2016 - guns - The suicide rate in USA was 13.26 per 100,000 people

Little difference. In Australia hanging played a large factor. Do we blame rope?

[brian ross]

The "house them in the community" effort was in response to the previous "lock them up and throw the keys away" style of treating the mentally ill. It was fashionable in the 1970s to first tear down the walls and then shut down the Asylums for the mentally ill. First started in America under Nixon and then spread around the world.

Way back there were less mentally ill people too ... these days everybody knows somebody who has a "problem" ... including autism and dyslexia.

Being dyslexic myself and being the father of an Autistic child, I resent your inference that either is a mental "illness" or a disease, Neferti.

Dyslexia simply means you cannot, in it's worst forms, read. In my case, I could not recognise letter shapes. Through extensive remedial schooling I was taught how to and how to read. I now have a Masters degree and work in IT.

In my son's case, we struggled for years for a diagnosis. He is on the "edge" of the spectrum. To an ordinary person, he appears a bit withdrawn and somewhat fixated at times on things that interest him but generally aren't of much interest to most people. He has a wicked sense of humour and his favourite trick is to talk about various conspiracy theories. It alarms many people. If you're in on the know, it can be quite amusing to watch their reactions.

[BigP]

""I now have a Masters degree and work in IT.""

Arts im thinking, or Masterbation lol