Posted by LostBoyinNC43 on December 24, 2012, at 12:36:54
In reply to The NRA, posted by Phil on December 22, 2012, at 17:00:34
I can tell you this from personal experience, offline experience. The leftist, liberal stereotype of the average NRA member as being a r*dn*ck who drives a pickup truck and lives in a trailer is far from true. Many if not most of these NRA members are solidly middle class, many are upper middle class. Guns is a money sport. You have to have money to target shoot, to hunt on a regular basis, to collect guns.
Im around gun culture people regularly and I can tell you, many of them want us re-institutionalized. Many of these people want to go back to the days of the sixties and seventies when the chronically mentally ill were in state mental institutions long term. And these NRA people have the kind of money and political clout to possibly get it pushed through, politically.
Sad thing is, I hate to say, after being involved with psychiatry since late 97, I just about agree with them. So many people with severe mental illness live such awful lives left to their own. If there were medications that ACTUALLY WORKED as good as the drug companies claimed, it might be different. But unless they bring back ECT on a major scale and make ECT much more accessible and psychiatry opens it mind more and becomes more open to things like sleep medicine being adjunctive to psychopharmacology, I dont see things getting any better anytime soon.
Eric AKA "LostBoyinNC"
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