Comments by "Titanium Rain" (@ChucksSEADnDEAD) on "The Truth About Mental Illness and Guns" video.

  1. +ben borg at any point in time, about a quarter of American citizens have a mental illness - which may just be a case of depression or anxiety. All the government would have to do, if you had your way, was overdiagnose people and in a few years they'd have prohibited most Americans from owning guns because they were diagnosed with a mental illness.
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  2. ben borg then I'm sorry, but then who the hell cares about your opinion? Even a lot of anti-gun people don't agree with disarming the American population, and the majority of Americans are pro-gun.
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  3. ben borg We had mass shootings in Paris, silly. >"no one needs a gun apart from the police and the army." >"Why do you need a gun?" Because a cop is too heavy. Only cops can protect me with their guns thus I don't need them, but cops arrive in time to draw chalk lines and collect evidence. Not to save me.
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  4. ben borg I'm not saying that, but I do believe people should buy guns if they want to. But I'm not saying that, you're using a strawman fallacy. >"This means that any potential terrorist like some 16 year old authistic" Autism doesn't correlate to violence (or mental illness in general, for that matter), and where has anyone said that 16 years old kids should be able to buy guns? Nowhere. You're like that people who ask "do you want 13 year olds to die from alcohol poisoning?" when anyone proposes lowering the drinking age to 18. You're just pulling the same strawmans everyone pulls from their ass when confronted. If your tactic is making shit up you've already lost. >"The answer is more regulation not more guns dumbass." Didn't work for alcohol, didn't work for drugs. Why will it work for guns?
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  5. ben borg The shooter from Sandy Hook killed his own mother to gain access to firearms that were secured. Sure, he did have his own gun and used it to kill his mother, but he could have killed his own mother some other way. It was an unfortunate situation because the kid manipulated his mother and she was only trying to bond with her son by taking him to the range. You're wrong because alcohol is related to a) car crashes; b) arguments, which is a common source of homicides; and c) tearing families apart, which not only leads to youth criminality but also domestic violence and even partner homicide between couples. These are three reasons out of the top of my head for why alcohol influences more than just the individual. In fact, the reason mental illness doesn't correlate to violence is because substance abuse is factored out. If you ignore alcohol and drugs as a factor, then mentally ill people tend to be violent - mentally ill people are especially vulnerable to alcohol. My point was also that certain items can't be controlled. I mean, stills, plantations and RVs used to cook meth leave evidence behind and occasionally have fires/blow up so they end up getting caught, but a gun is just metal. Any machine shop in the country can manufacture guns, no need to bring anything from Mexico or deal with drug sniffing dogs. Metal is virtually untraceable. Again, even extreme cases of schizophrenia do not correlate with violence if you factor out substance abuse. Mix schizophrenia with alcohol or drugs and you get someone who can be unstable and become violent.
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  6. ben borg The US is much bigger and it has much more open space you big doofus. Many places have a 40 minute wait time. Even if you have a 4 minute police response time, that's enough to do the crime and leave. The police will arrive in time to take notes and draw a chalk outline or put you in a bodybag.
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  7. ben borg >"Urm robbers don't usaully kill their victims" Actually in the US some robbers started raping their victims because they'd feel embarrassed reporting the robbery. But either way, who said anything about a robbery? Criminals who want just to steal stuff break into your house during the day while you're at work and there's less neighbours. Many times home invaders attack people they know to have money, so they can ask for safe combinations or take them to their place of business to open safes while holding the family hostage. They're home invaders, they are a danger to anyone inside the house, not mere burglars. >"40 minute wait time where?" A ton of people live outside cities in the US. >"first needs to actually get in wothout waking up teh whole neighbourhood" It's better to just break in. If you're looking for stealing property it's better to plan a faster robbery that gets you out of the scene than spend more time in the area than you need, even if it's noisy. If you watch CCTV of robberies you often see them using crowbars on window frames. >"comes in needs to find the valuables at least 5 mins then needs to grab it and leave  thats at least 15-20 mins." 5 minutes to find the valuables? So you mean that criminals, knowing that cops arrive in 4 minutes or whatever, simply walk around the house for 5 minutes? Anyone who takes that long is already in jail. The criminals who aren't in jail are the ones who haven't been caught yet, so clearly they are faster than the response time. And where do those 15-20 minutes come from? You can't count time before the actual entry. If it's a silent entry you can't predict you're going to be robbed, you're bullshitting by adding time. You enter a house, take the TV, console and laptop and get in a car.
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  8. ben borg I never contradicted myself. You're the one equating home invasion with a burglary or a fast robbery. Of course a gun doesn't help during a burglary, if it's a burglary I'm not at home therefore I'm not in danger. >"The robbery happened while she was away shopping" That's called a burglary. It's not a robbery or home invasion. >"it proves my point smart thieves want valuables not TV's they want watches and diamond rings." Except jewelry is harder to get rid off because you need a buyer or get rid of it on flea markets or pawn shops, which are an easy way to get caught. A TV you can sell even to a poor family living next door and nobody would know, TVs are extremely common and harder to identify than specific jewelry. TVs are valuables. Used consoles are a huge market. Those burglars knew what they wanted and they wanted jewelry. But the majority of burglars aren't like that. Even most jewelry thieves prefer gold over diamonds because it's easier to move. >"not your fantasy where the robber smashes a window in broad daylight" Americans live in dumb paper thin houses, I'm talking about using the crowbar to pry the frame out of the wall, not smash the window. "Broad daylight" - yeah, but if it's the suburbs with fences or fence-height shrubs everywhere and everyone is at work then broad daylight is less risky than at night.
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