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Originally Posted by Taltarzac725
The term "gun nuts" has different connotations that the usual use of the word "nut" to describe someone with a mental illness.
I also still think that if libraries had more materials quickly accessible about mental health resources through their web-sites, there would be less ignorance about people with mental illnesses.
As in the movie and books The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo and its sequels, a label of mental illness can you be used as a weapon to silence people who are whistleblowers, critics, troublemakers, and/or victims of someone with powers over them. Part of the ability to use mental illness as a weapon is that so many people still do not understand various mental illnesses.
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Oh, but many people DO understand mental illnesses....like the Virginia Tech teacher whose students would not come to class anymore b/c the would-be shooter scared them so much with his bizarre, deathly talk, and like the other attending and resident Medical Doctors at Walter Reed Army Hospital where Hasan was "teaching" psychiatry resident MD's, and presenting at grand rounds with attending psychiatrists.
But their repeated warnings were quietly shut down for fear of claims/outcry of "ethnic discrimination", "racist", or other "breech of privacy" claims naive do-gooders make in order to not "judge" or "stigmatize" such a threatening and sick-minded person.