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• Exclusive Look: See the First Episode from New NRA Contributor Colion Noir! (And It Goes After Obama)

  March 19, 2013 at 2:15am

  Please help Utah and call the governor’s office in support of HB76! They are accepting calls and taking tallies to veto or sign the bill.

  http://www.ksl.com/?sid=24455903&nid=148&title=gov-feeling-the-heat-over-constitutional-carry-bill

• Woman Loses Court Fight Over Illegal Music Downloads — And You Won’t Believe How Much They Say She Owes

  March 19, 2013 at 12:37am

  In reply to Patriot72.

  If theft is theft… then you are likely a thief or have someone close to you that is. You have a DVR? theft. You make a youtube video that has music in it? theft. You write a book that uses ideas from anywhere beside your own head? theft. You ever recorded a song off the radio? theft. You ever quote a poem writing to a loved one? theft.

  You see; probably any song you can get with a torrent, you can look up on youtube and listen anytime anyways – and anyone can record from youtube with 30 seconds of research effort. If things are as black and white as you say. I bet somewhere sometime you were (and are) a thief. There is a difference in taking someone else’s work and making money off of it, than it is storing something you could otherwise get for free anyways in a different format for personal use. Same with taking thoughts and work from others and making it your own. Tape recorders and VHS didn’t kill the music or movie industry yet they were afraid it would. They are trying to take money from people any way they can and see dollar signs lost in every possible download.

• Lindsey Graham’s Gun-Related Bill Wants to Track the Mentally Ill — but Who Counts?

  March 18, 2013 at 7:51pm

  In reply to sputnik.

  Why should we trust those who give out meds to everyone?
  You shouldn’t! There is a reason people are told to get a second opinion. Most people who hand out anti-depressants and other pills are family doctors. People who have VERY little training in mental disorders and have much more training on how drugs will interact with each other. Doctors spend like 15 minutes with a patient and need to make a determination. It can take several hours with several visits to make a relatively accurate diagnosis. Mental health professionals rarely have the ability to prescribe medications. Today, most psychiatrists (mental health doctors) are not trained in therapy. They have more training than family doctors, and can identify disorders much better, but they often prescribe what they do know about, and that is meds. Mental health therapy is mostly done today by clinical social workers, mental health counselors, psychologists, and marriage and family therapists.

  Who determines what is a disorder?
  Right now the doctors have the power and there is a lot of disagreement in the whole field. The group is made up of mostly psychiatrists (think meds), and fewer practitioners of psychotherapy. The group is part of the organization of the American Psychiatric Association who work on creating the manuals the most the field is bound by.

• Lindsey Graham’s Gun-Related Bill Wants to Track the Mentally Ill — but Who Counts?

  March 18, 2013 at 7:39pm

  There have been many questions on this board about mental health and being in the field; figured I could answer some.

  Who determines mental competency?
  Competency is legally defined and a mental health court judge makes the determination.

  Does mental illness include depression, anxiety?
  Not necessarily; it is a matter of degree. The manual most professionals use for mental health is a categorical reference of mental disorders, not mental illnesses. Meaning there is a difference in someone who is mildly depressed and someone who cannot eat, talk, move, and get out of bed (catatonia). When talking about mental illness it is usually short for (SMPI) severely persistently mentally ill; look it up if you are really curious.

  For those who say, “I’m fine with taking guns away from crazy people.”
  There are already laws and policies in place for this. When someone is in imminent harm to themselves or others, meaning, is there a target? is there a plan? is there means? and real intent to carry it out? – the law requires it be reported. Having a diagnosis does not make one crazy or a threat. The vast majority of those who are SPMI are harmless and would more likely hurt themselves before others. And a diagnosis does not mean one is crazy or mentally ill – just because someone has PTSD doesn’t mean they will shoot everyone around. About 1/3 of active combat troops are likely to have PTSD and they are not shooting up their buddies.

  Cont.

• UPDATED: Ron Paul Account Tweets Shock Message About Former SEAL Sniper’s Death

  February 5, 2013 at 10:49am

  In reply to MisterSarcastic.

  @Silly

  After reading your posts; it is clear you are part of the ‘Zionist Regime.’ For if you were really trying to educate people you would use reasoned arguments instead of personal attacks and paranoid delusions. It is too bad the blaze doesn’t allow for an ignore ‘troll’ button to rid your posts which are attempts to create more sheeple.

• Do You Know About Japan’s Highly-Restrictive Gun Laws? ‘The Polar Opposite’ of America’s Second Amendment

  January 28, 2013 at 10:29am

  In reply to LarryL2.

  @LARRYL2 – You are absolutely insane if you think MS13 is anything like the Japanese Yakuza. You really think that if police crack down on MS13 they will give up their guns? That is just one example of many? A better comparison would be Mexico. Organized crime runs Mexico which also has strict gun laws, and more people die by guns than here. Comparisons of island nations who can control contraband much easier are futile and “insane.”

• Ed Schultz Makes Bold Claim That U.S. Has ‘Never Had a Civilian Stop a Shooting’ — So We Prove Him Wrong

  January 12, 2013 at 12:05pm

  If you include the one in San Antonio you need to include Salt Lake City for Trolley Square: “The gunman’s rampage was stopped after trading shots with off-duty police officer Kenneth Hammond of … Ogden City.” Mr. Hammond was 50 miles from where he works and was with his wife.

• Glenn Beck and West Point Psychology Prof. Discuss Social Impact of Violent Video Games

  January 6, 2013 at 4:45pm

  In reply to sputnik.

  @Zorro1

  I guess you need to up your reading comprehension skills. Strict behavioral psychology does presume stimulus response and schedules of reinforcement explain observable behavior. Grossman in the video stated that when you have stimulus responses and get reward for virtual violence then violence will increase (that is the claim I am challenging – NOT that he is wrong because he didn’t explain every complex factor). Even in behavioral psychology you must account for stimulus generalization which takes more shaping and training to do. Meaning going from a mouse click or game pad button to firearm trigger pull must take further training experiences (like they do in the military).

  I used the word “all” to emphasize that humans are not capable of knowing every factor of human behavior. I used that wording to challenge the oversimplification in philosophy of behavioral psychology. If you would actually take time to read and think, instead of trying to insult people and try to appear cleaver to yourself, then maybe you could contribute more than being the ‘big scary blowhard behind the curtain.’

• Glenn Beck and West Point Psychology Prof. Discuss Social Impact of Violent Video Games

  January 5, 2013 at 10:22pm

  In reply to sputnik.

  @ZORRO1 I’m guessing you were meaning to reply to another post as you were quoting things I did not say. However, if you are referencing my post, please show me where my straw men arguments are and don’t put words where none were stated. And again if you were referencing my post let me DUMB it way down for you.

  Grossman, RIGHT, boom game make pull trigger easier. Grossman, WRONG, boom game NOT make people kill easier (otherwise we would have millions of killers out there).

  Grossman is wrong just like people playing a racing game does not make a person a NASCAR driver. Pulling the trigger is WAY different than committing crime and violence; even though it is a tiny piece in the equation.

• Glenn Beck and West Point Psychology Prof. Discuss Social Impact of Violent Video Games

  January 5, 2013 at 9:41am

  In the video Dave Grossman makes the same fallacy as many behavioral psychologists do. Even though stimulus response and operant conditioning are basic psych 101 and are tested and proven; the fallacy is overgeneralization when those responses occur and oversimplification of how violence or crime happens. There are many factors which bring a person to crime or violence and it is a very complex process of morals, beliefs, environmental conditions, upbringing, ect. Stimulus response only works when all the other necessary conditions are met… meaning once a person has gone through the complex process to have the intent of crime and the gun pointed at someone, THEN does stimulus response take effect.

  In other words, Grossman is right, vicarious training through movies and games increases ability to pull the trigger. BUT, and it is a big but, it doesn’t explain all the complex ways people get to the point of starring down a gun that is pointed to another person.