Qasim Rashid, Esq.I’m convinced Republican politicians don’t actually believe mental illness causes gun violence. But they do it because they just know that demonizing people with mental illness has no political consequences and also that doing so buys them enough time to feign outrage until the next mass shooting dominates the news cycle.
Sharon Gibson Morgan@QasimRashid It's not for nothing they vote against funding for mental health care.
@SharonGibson3 Exactly. "I can't believe what you say because I see what you do."
Scott Cain@QasimRashid I’ve thought that for a long time.
Laux Myth (aka Martin)@QasimRashid Kicker that ‘the next mass shooting’ will be tomorrow in all probability.
Blake 🇵🇸
Adam Kaplan 🚌🚊🚢@QasimRashid mental health means they can steer public funds to religiously affiliated “crisis” centers that have no scientific basis for their treatments. See what is going on with opiate addiction for the playbook.
System IV, Building K@adambkaplan @CassandraZeroCovid @QasimRashid Ding ding ding — Winner. It has to be their cronies’ version of “health,” not some commonly agreed-upon definition.
Erin ConroyGOP Gov. of TX Greg Abbott: "We as a state, we as a society, need to do a better job with mental health."
But in April 2022, he diverted more than $200m (£160m) of funding away from the Health and Human Services Commission, which is in charge of the state's mental health programmes.
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Texas ranks last among US states for overall access to mental health care, according to the 2022 State of Mental Health in America report.
@QasimRashid
After a racist massacred 23 people in an El Paso Walmart, Abbott talked about passing laws to add more background checks. Instead, he deregulated open carry.
"[June 13, 2021], Governor Greg Abbott signed a law making it legal for anyone in Texas over the age of 21 to openly carry a gun in public without a permit or license. Since then, the number of mass shootings has risen 62.5 percent." [as of Sept. 2022; clearly, both shootings & victims are higher now]
Texas Mass Shootings Up 62.5 Percent Since Permitless Carry Bill
Just over a year ago, Governor Greg Abbott signed a law making it legal for anyone in Texas over the age of 21 to openly carry a gun in public without a permit or license. Since then, the number of mass shootings has risen 62.5 percent.
Christopher Trott@QasimRashid there is no gun violence without the guns. If they pass strict laws and ban assult style weapons, then the number of unstable people having them will be less
FroggyMcTickles@QasimRashid someone else said it already, but they use the excuse of mental illness while cutting expenses for mental health, but, if I may add, Republican gun nuts also conveniently leave out the other half of the equation. They’re missing the fact that the policies passed by themselves and corporatist/establishment democrats have essentially caused a pandemic of state imposed desperation. You deal with that, I’m willing to bet anything I have that crime will go down.
Cans of Soup@QasimRashid It’s racism. Many republicans believe mental illness comes from inferior genetics.
C0ppertop@QasimRashid
You think they’d change their minds, when some crazy, goes nuts inside the Texas legislature?
Probably not.
You think they’d change their minds, when some crazy, goes nuts inside the Texas legislature?
Probably not.
Noah Cook@QasimRashid I feel reasonably confident in saying that anyone who is serious about improving care for those with SMIs would support Medicaid Expansion, but I may be biased.
Incognitim@QasimRashid & unfortunately, a few dems are beholden to the nra, too. Cuellar, whose district includes Sutherland Springs, where 26 people were killed by an AR15 gunman at a church in 2017, does not support an assault weapon ban.
When asked today if he regrets that, he hid behind the 2nd Am. & said we have to look at mental health, isolation, ideology, blahblahblah.
Just wish Acosta would've asked if we should just ban ARs ONLY for neo-nazis, or ask them politely not be be racist murderers, or?
When asked today if he regrets that, he hid behind the 2nd Am. & said we have to look at mental health, isolation, ideology, blahblahblah.
Just wish Acosta would've asked if we should just ban ARs ONLY for neo-nazis, or ask them politely not be be racist murderers, or?
Jhada Addams 🏳️⚧️ 💖💜💙@QasimRashid Gun violence is essential to the continued expansion of the Police State and Incarceration industry. Fear helps to sell 'protection'.
Dave the Rebbe@QasimRashid How is white supremacy Mental illness??? It’s all totally screwed up!!!
Darcy@QasimRashid
According to Gun Violence Archive there have been 203 Mass shootings in America since Jan 1, 2023. Including 3 today! 5 Dead 7 Injured just TODAY!
There needs to be a 24/7 tv channel reporting nothing but Violent crime, in news format. Stop blurring the pictures & show America what's really happening.
A victim yesterday was found with NO FACE!!!
According to Gun Violence Archive there have been 203 Mass shootings in America since Jan 1, 2023. Including 3 today! 5 Dead 7 Injured just TODAY!
There needs to be a 24/7 tv channel reporting nothing but Violent crime, in news format. Stop blurring the pictures & show America what's really happening.
A victim yesterday was found with NO FACE!!!
Locksmith@QasimRashid Until it is their blood on the floor, republicans will do nothing. Nothing.
Gen X-Wing@QasimRashid They don’t think gun violence is a problem in the first place. Then they just blame anything “bad” on something random and unrelated.
Natural disasters? Gay. Clergy abusing children en masse? Drag Shows. Gun violence. Mental illness. Anything new. Not praying enough.
Trying to make sense of it doesn’t work, unless you bring out Occam’s razor. They just make things up.
CIWS-30@QasimRashid Honestly, it's Republican policies that have gutted social safety nets, destroyed the environment, and even cut funding to mental health care that causes most of these mental health issues.
It's Reaganomics (and similar policies in that era like getting rid of the fairness doctrine) and beyond that have made people so crazy (due to rampant inequality) that they turn further and further to extremism and violence.
So basically, even the mental health problems are also their fault.
paul
Joe Lion@QasimRashid they use it s as an excuse to pass the buck because they know that “fixing mental health”, unlike getting rid of guns, is an unsolvable problem, so it will always be a viable excuse to use. Just like supposedly supporting “background checks” - they know that’s just another way to push the responsibility to someone else, and therefore they have someone else to blame when it doesn’t work
robert daniel pickard@QasimRashid Also to use it to deny gun rights to groups like transpeople under the guise of 'mental illness'. The same way they freaked out about groups like the black panthers arming themselves.
DamnKimberlee@QasimRashid it’s doublethink, NewsSpeak, Russian logic 🤷♀️ http://thekremlinpapers.com/#tab-tb_rd3a490-1 he does what he accuses better than anyone.
jenifer daniels ♎ :verified:@QasimRashid what if I told you they actually do believe it. why? because they are in the "army of the lord." and the Lord is "not wrong," therefore they cannot be wrong.
finally, the belief is that there is actually is no real "mental illness," only people who haven't been saved. which leads us right back to Jesus.