TheBanyanTree: Mental Illness Ain't No Picnic

[Julie Anna Teague]

Wow, I should look up before I hit send.  I thought I was only 
responding to Sally.  Sorry for posting political content.  And I was 
just teasing about my brother.  He does own an AK47, but he is not 
mentally ill.  He's just a gun and knife nut.

Quoting Julie Anna Teague <jateague at indiana.edu>:

> Quoting Sally Larwood <larwos at optusnet.com.au>:
>
>> Getting back to the actual incident.  My husband keeps asking me what my
>> American friends think about this latest incident.  Does it make more
>> Americans think about the gun issue?
>
> I always think about the gun issue.  My brother is (mostly) mentally
> stable.  Ok, he's fine, really. And he owns an AK-47.  Seriously?
> But I think a lot more about the very deep philosophical divide in
> this country and the hatred and hate speech that that foments.  I've
> followed politics my whole life and I've never heard hate rhetoric
> like I hear now.  Comments like putting someone in the "crosshairs"
> has to stop.  It makes me sick.  Someone who speaks in a peaceful
> way, like Jimmy Carter, who I always greatly admired as a peaceful
> humanitarian and still do, can no longer make it in politics.  When a
> well known politico says things like "How's that hopey-changey thing
> working out for you?" it makes me sick.  I still hope for change, and
> a lot of other things.
>
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