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Mental Health Information

HereSince1628

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3. We are now "the dangerous people" in the phrase

Reply to Tobin S. (Reply #2)

Fri May 3, 2013, 04:38 PM

May 2013

"keep guns out of the hands of criminals and the dangerous people."

The Obama press folks tried to soften the rhetoric, but too late. Everyone knows what it means.
Big Ed Shultz paints the mentally ill as the dangerous folks all the freaking time on his radio show.

They KNOW. The REALLY DO KNOW how stereotyping this is, they know it contributes to suffering of the mentally ill and their families.

Still they cannot stop. Chauvinism is addictive.

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National effort for mental health funding...the right thing for the wrong reason [View all] HereSince1628 May 2013 OP

*sigh* Neoma May 2013 #1

We get very little good press. Tobin S. May 2013 #2

We are now "the dangerous people" in the phrase HereSince1628 May 2013 #3