The Javon Belcher murder-suicide doesn’t sway my Second Amendment support one iota. Disarming the law-abiding isn’t the answer.
Responsible gun owners usually do little more than brandish weapons to send suspects scurrying away. A visit to the site, JustFacts.com, reveals the following:
* A 1994 survey conducted by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention found that Americans use guns to frighten away intruders who are breaking into their homes about 498,000 times per year.[20]
* A 1982 survey of male felons in 11 state prisons dispersed across the U.S. found:[21]
• 34% had been “scared off, shot at, wounded, or captured by an armed victim”
• 40% had decided not to commit a crime because they “knew or believed that the victim was carrying a gun”
• 69% personally knew other criminals who had been “scared off, shot at, wounded, or captured by an armed victim”[22]
Far from trigger-happy yahoos, responsible gun owners scare away would-be assailants far more than shooting them.
Theories abound about why this murder-suicide happened. Small comfort is found in the 69% decrease in these tragedies reported by the Institute on Domestic Violence in the African American Community (IDVAAC) at the University of Minnesota.
An unarmed NFL linebacker is still capable of homicide- more so than most. He had a range of options at his disposal- including non-violence.
He chose murder and then suicide. Unlike the usual demographic in these scenarios, he wasn’t unemployed nor under-employed.
Rumors circulate wildly about drug use and financial problems, but time will reveal the motive.
Self-control is the issue here, not gun control.
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Mention ‘mental illness’ to anyone and their eyes glaze over. The mind, the most important asset in the human arsenal, is virtually unknown. Medicine, in it’s apathy, abandoned mental health in the 19th century which created a vacuum. Psychiatry, Psychology, and Psychoanalysis, has done nothing more than fill that vacuum with pretense. Today we morn Javon Belcher, his wife, and 3mo old daughter. What if that vacuum was brimming with workable technology that has been suppressed for 62yrs?
Go to http://www.dianetics.org/#/videos/dianetics-an-introduction to see who should rightfully fill that vacuum. This little video will give you more understanding, of how the mind works, than all the ‘beliefs’ and ‘studies’ of the past 150yrs…Semper Fi
Control: is start-change-stop, nothing more/less. Javon Belcher’s success started when he gained professional competence at starting-changing-stopping in a football game. His failure began with each escalating moment he couldn’t control his own mind. That’s the situation.
Solution: These 18 free online courses at http://www.scientologycourses.org/ They deal with various ‘life’ problems/solutions. Scan pics, click your interest, view intro, sign-up. Courses are short, perhaps 1-2 days, but will last a lifetime…Semper Fi