03-01-2018, 01:37 PM
(03-01-2018, 01:05 PM)BengalHawk62 Wrote: I respectfully disagree with your last sentence. Tying mental health to gun violence is not ‘harmful’.....it’s all included. Unless I’m not understanding what you are trying to say.
What I see when the issue of mental health is tied to shootings like these is that this is really the only time the conversation comes up. When it does, it has the potential to further stigmatize those with mental disorders. Also, because of the data I mentioned regarding the rate as which those with mental disorders are perpetrators and victims of violence I see it as using the issue as a scapegoat. This is why I see the tying of these two issues together in this way as harmful in both directions.
"A great democracy has got to be progressive, or it will soon cease to be either great or a democracy..." - TR
"The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little." - FDR
"The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little." - FDR
